⚠️Colorado's HB 26-1195, which requires real-time licensed-therapist involvement in AI psychotherapy, nears its August 12 effective date with no visible preparation reported.
⚠️Colorado's HB 26-1195 nears its August 12 effective date for mandating real-time licensed-therapist involvement in AI psychotherapy, with no visible preparation reported.
2026-08-03SB 903 is confirmed calendared — Assembly Appropriations, Wed 08-05, 9am. leginfo carries the live Committee Hearing Date field (08/05/26, "Asm Appropriations"); the committee's own Daily File names SB 903 (Padilla, "Mental health professionals: artificial intelligence") in that day's bill list, heard in sign-in order. The Daily File does not label it a suspense hearing, so whether it is held on suspense or moves forward is decided at/after 08-05. Sits inside the 08-14 fiscal-report deadline. Dual-verified against raw HTML, not the summarizer. reported → confirmed. (California Legislature, primary)
2026-08-03A named federal bill surfaced: the CHAT Act 2.0 (Husted/Kim). Bipartisan senators introduced (07-29, picked up in coverage 08-03) an update to Husted's 2025 CHAT Act, tailored to companion and health chatbots: age verification, mandatory parental notification if a minor "expresses suicidal ideation," human-disclosure, usage limits, crisis-referral, memory restrictions and pre-deployment risk assessments, on a three-tier (educational/companion/health) framework enforceable by FTC/state AGs. ⚠ This is very likely the named version of — or successor to — the S.5154 Kim/Husted companion-chatbot bill this lens already tracks; the formal S. number could not be confirmed (congress.gov CAPTCHA-walled; the press release cites a drafting number, "LAN26388," not a public bill number). Treated as the same storyline, not a second item. (Sen. Husted)
2026-08-03Colorado HB 26-1195 nears its 08-12 effective date with no visible preparation — no DORA rulemaking notice, no legal challenge, no professional-association statement. DORA's site 403'd most sub-paths on direct check (noted per discipline, not substituted with a claim). One more check closer to the date.
2026-08-03Litigation quiet. CourtListener (37 Character.AI cases, 109 entries) shows most-recent activity 07/23 (an amicus brief), before the window; no new filings/rulings dated 08-02/03 across Character.AI, Replika, OpenAI, Meta or xAI. The Minnesota xAI TRO denial (07-31) and 08-19 preliminary- injunction hearing are unchanged.
2026-08-03No new safety or harm development in this window. The lens's active harm stories (the companion-chatbot litigation, the state bans) are covered under Policy above; nothing new on FDA digital-therapeutics (today's TEMPO/FDA item is Dexcom glucose-monitoring, confirmed out of scope), payer AI-denial, or MHPAEA parity.
