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Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and…
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Not law. HB 2772 would have enacted three Kansas acts. An Age-Appropriate Design Code Act would have required online businesses likely to be used by minors to assess designs for the risk of compulsive use, use the lowest-risk design by default, give minors the highest privacy settings, and limit data collection. A digital-replica act would have let people sue over digital replicas of their likeness made without consent. A chatbot act would have required chatbots to say they are not human, limited the use of chat logs, and made providers liable for injuries their chatbots cause. It died in the House Federal and State Affairs Committee on April 10, 2026.
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What it means for business
None: the bill died, so it creates no obligations in Kansas. Its Senate companion, SB 499, also died.
Key provisions
- Age-Appropriate Design Code Act: online businesses that earn most revenue online and are likely to be used by minors must assess each new or changed design for the risk of compulsive use by minors and default to the lowest-risk reasonable alternative
- Minors' privacy settings set to the highest level by default; limits on collecting, using and keeping personal data; public disclosures about algorithmic feeds and recommendation systems
- Design-code violations are deceptive acts under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, with Attorney General enforcement and a private right of action
- Digital-replica act: anyone who knowingly creates or publishes a person's digital replica without prior written consent can be sued for the greater of $5,000 or actual damages, plus injunctions
- Saving Human Connection Act: chatbots must say they are not human before any output, every hour after that and whenever asked; no implying that outputs come from a licensed professional
- Chatbot providers may not use chat logs to target ads or sell chat logs; minors' chats need a parent's consent and cannot be used for training; adults' chats used for training only with affirmative consent
- Chatbots treated as products: providers liable for injuries their chatbots cause, even if they used reasonable care; Attorney General, district attorney, municipal and private enforcement
- Introduced February 10, 2026 by the House Federal and State Affairs Committee; died in committee April 10, 2026
Latest legislative action
Apr 10, 2026. Died in Committee
Sponsors
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Committee on Child Welfare and Foster Care | Primary |
| Committee on Federal and State Affairs | Primary |
| Committee on Appropriations | Original Sponsor |
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