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UT HB249: Utah Legal Personhood Amendments

Effective May 1, 2024 Utah · 2024 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB249 · where it stands

All steps complete
  1. Introduced Complete
  2. Passed first chamber Complete
  3. Passed both chambers Complete
  4. Enacted Complete
  5. Effective Since May 1, 2024
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Enacted
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In one paragraph

Utah HB 249 (2024) enacts Utah Code 63G-31-101 and -102, which provide that a governmental entity may not grant or recognize legal personhood in artificial intelligence or in other listed nonhumans such as inanimate objects, bodies of water, land, plants and nonhuman animals. Effective May 1, 2024.

Plain-English summary, written with AI assistance. The official text controls.

What it means for business

AI systems cannot be treated as legal persons by Utah state or local government.

Key provisions

  1. Utah Code 63G-31-102: governmental entities may not grant or recognize legal personhood in artificial intelligence
  2. Same bar for inanimate objects, bodies of water, land, plants and nonhuman animals
  3. Effective May 1, 2024

Latest legislative action

Mar 20, 2024. Governor Signed; Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 451

Topics and industries

Related topics

AI LiabilityAI in Government

Affected industries

Government

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