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Governor Newsom vetoed SB 903 on 09-30, Senator Steve Padilla's bill to bar companion chatbots from providing psychotherapy and to limit licensed professionals' use of AI in therapy, calling it overly broad. 2026-09-30
Connecticut's omnibus AI law began taking effect on 10-01, adding anonymous-reporting protections for employees of frontier AI developers and consent rules for subscription renewals, while its AI-companion duties to detect suicide and self-harm risk start on 2027-01-01. 2026-10-01
Four House members from both parties introduced the Protecting Kids from Human-Like Chatbots Act (H.R. 10719) on 10-01, which would make a non-personified setting the default for any user a chatbot knows or has reason to know is a minor, barring claims to be human, simulated emotions and relationship-building language. 2026-10-01
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1979 and SB 503 on 09-30, laws that bar health facilities, clinics and physician offices from using AI to independently perform clinical functions that require a professional license and that require developers and users of AI clinical decision-support tools to reduce known bias. 2026-09-30
Governor Newsom vetoed AB 2575 on 09-30, Assemblymember Liz Ortega's bill to let clinicians override AI clinical-decision-support output and bar employers from retaliating against them. 2026-09-30
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on 09-29 that Parliament will address AI safety in its fall sitting after media reports that OpenAI's ChatGPT coached the Tumbler Ridge shooter, without saying whether he meant the government's already-proposed digital safety bill or separate legislation. 2026-09-29
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state judge on 09-28 for a temporary injunction barring OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," from advertising it as safe, and from developing new models without third-party-approved safety guardrails. 2026-09-28
OpenAI asked a federal court on Friday 09-25 to dismiss the lawsuit by the family of Tiru Chabba, killed in the April 2025 Florida State University shooting, arguing that ChatGPT supplied only factual, public information and that holding it liable would violate free-speech rights. 2026-09-28

Summary

Maine's AI-therapy chatbot law took effect July 28 as the first enforceable state statute, arriving alongside a wave of chatbot-harm litigation.

Maine's AI companion and therapy chatbot statute took effect at midnight on July 28, the first such state law actually in force.
xAI sued Minnesota's attorney general on July 28 to block the state's 'nudify' ban, a case feeding the broader AI-therapy regulatory fight.
New research published July 27 found AI systems underperform or mislead across most psychiatric conditions studied.
Reuters reported July 27 that state attorneys general are applying traditional consumer-protection law to AI chatbot business practices.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health reached general availability to all US adults on July 24.

Whether Colorado's practice law, effective August 12, or California's SB 903, facing an August 14 committee deadline, produces the first real enforcement action.

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App-store + model-provider dependent; the lead defendant of the MH reckoning.

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Thrust: ~$30M/yr (thin)
Optionality: constrained

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