In one paragraph
Pennsylvania's HB 2006 (2025-26), the AI Companion Safety Act (Printer's No. 3747), would bar an operator from providing an AI companion unless it implements and maintains protocols that refer users to crisis services and block content that assists or encourages suicide or violence, and would require nonhuman-status disclosures. The bill also imposes a penalty (the penalty text was not captured). It passed the House 133-70 on September 28, 2026.
Plain-English summary, written with AI assistance. The official text controls.
What it means for business
None yet: the bill is pending. If enacted, operators of AI companions would have to maintain and publish self-harm and violence protocols and make nonhuman-status and minor-suitability disclosures.
Key provisions
- Would define an AI companion as an AI system that simulates sustained human-like relationships by retaining interaction history, engaging in emotion-based interactions and holding ongoing dialogues about personal matters; customer-service and internal-use systems are excluded
- Would require operators to maintain protocols referring users to a crisis center (including the 988 Lifeline) if they indicate suicidal ideation, self-harm or intent to harm others
- Would require protocols preventing the AI companion from assisting or encouraging suicide or violence, generating content that instructs on suicide, self-harm or violence, or discouraging users from seeking outside help
- Would require operators to publish protocol details on their website
- Would require a clear and conspicuous notice that the AI companion is artificial and not human, if a reasonable person would otherwise be misled, plus periodic break reminders
- Would require a disclosure that AI companions may not be suitable for some minors where the operator knows or should know minors use the service
- Passed the House 133-70 on September 28, 2026; no Senate action appears in the captured history
Latest legislative action
Oct 13, 2026. Referred to Communications & Technology
Sponsors (showing 5 of 26)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Cox | Primary |
| G. Roni Green | Primary |
| Melissa Shusterman D | Primary |
| Barrar | Cosponsor |
| Ben Waxman D | Cosponsor |
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