State AI law
Idaho
AI laws
We track 12 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Idaho. 9 have been signed or enacted.
Last updated Oct 12, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Idaho’s bills stand
12 bills- Introduced
- 0
- In committee
- 0
- Passed a chamber
- 0
- Signed or enacted
- 9
- Dead or vetoed
- 3
Overview
How Idaho regulates AI
Idaho has 12 published AI-related bills in our register, 9 of them signed or enacted. Every bill below links to its own page with the status, dates and a plain-English summary.
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Idaho AI bills
RSS feed for IdahoARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Adds to existing law to establish the Conversational AI Safety Act.
Idaho's Conversational AI Safety Act (Idaho Code Title 48, ch. 21) regulates public-facing AI chatbots that simulate human conversation. Operators must disclose that the service is AI when a reasonable person could be misled, adopt a suicide-ideation protocol that refers users to crisis services, and not claim the service provides professional mental health care. For users they know or reasonably believe are minors, operators must show AI disclosures, avoid engagement rewards, block sexually explicit content, and prevent claims of sentience, emotional dependence and romantic role-play. The Attorney General enforces it. Effective July 1, 2027.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MEDICAL SERVICES – Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding artifical intelligence medical services.
Idaho's H 945 (2026) would have enacted the AI Medical Services Act (new Title 54, chapter 60), creating an 11-member Board of Autonomous Medical Practice to license 'artificial intelligence augmented and autonomous service providers' (AAASPs) that deliver certain clinical AI services. New licenses would have been provisional for up to two years. L2 and L3 licensees would have owed patient disclosures and a duty of loyalty, and the board could have fined violators up to $10,000 per count or offense. It was introduced March 25, 2026, and then reported printed and referred to the Business Committee (undated), with no later action.
Amends existing law to revise a provision regarding video voyeurism and to revise a penalty for disclosing explicit synthetic media.
Idaho's H 727 (2026 Session Laws Chapter 121) amends two sex-crime laws. Video voyeurism (§ 18-6605), a felony, covers disseminating, publishing or selling, or threatening or conspiring to do so, an identifiable person's intimate image to harass or degrade. Disclosing explicit synthetic media (§ 18-6606), meaning images or videos created or altered with AI or other technical means to realistically show a person in sexual conduct or nude, is a misdemeanor but a felony (up to 10 years, $25,000 or both) if the person shown is under 18 or for a repeat offense within five years. Signed March 25, 2026; effective July 1, 2026.
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding generative artificial intelligence in public education.
Idaho's S 1227 (2026 Session Laws Chapter 71) adds Chapter 70, Generative Artificial Intelligence in Education, to Title 33. The State Department of Education must develop a statewide generative AI framework for K-12 schools, subject to State Board approval, that prioritizes human oversight, transparency, safety and data security and ensures no generative AI replaces a human teacher. Every school district and public charter school must adopt a generative AI policy aligned with it. Vendors of AI tools bought by schools must disclose whether products use machine learning, predictive analytics or generative AI. Signed March 19, 2026; effective July 1, 2026.
Adds to existing law to require the use of AI to review administrative rules annually.
Idaho's H 917 (2026) would have enacted the AI Regulatory Review Act (new Title 67, chapter 34), requiring every state agency to have an AI system review its regulations and guidance documents during its periodic review under Idaho Code 67-5292. Qualified agency staff would have had 30 days to verify and approve the AI's output, and no rule could be amended or repealed on AI analysis alone. Agencies would have had six months to start. It was introduced March 17, 2026, and then reported printed and referred to the Business Committee (undated), with no later action.
Adds to existing law to establish provisions regarding unbiased artificial intelligence in state government purchasing.
Did not pass. H 687 would have let Idaho executive-branch agencies, including public colleges, buy or use a large language model only if it is 'truth-seeking' and 'ideologically neutral.' Agencies could not use models designed to alter facts or history to advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) outcomes, restrict lawful content based on race or sex, embed DEI-based guardrails, or require users to affirm DEI concepts. Contracts would have given agencies access to system prompts, training directives and test results to check compliance. It passed the House 56-11 but died in the Senate State Affairs Committee.
ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS – Freedom From AI-Rigged (FAIR) Elections Act: relief and actions over synthetic media in electioneering commu…
Idaho's H 664 (2024), the Freedom From AI-Rigged (FAIR) Elections Act, targets deepfakes in campaign ads. Synthetic media is audio or video of a person's speech or conduct created with generative adversarial network techniques or other digital technology so that it seems real but shows something that did not happen. A candidate deceptively shown in synthetic media in an electioneering communication may seek an injunction and sue the content creator for damages and attorney's fees. Including the disclosure 'This (video/audio) has been manipulated', shown or read as the law specifies, is an affirmative defense. It took effect March 25, 2024.
CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN – Amends and adds to existing law to provide for the crime of visual representations of the sexual abuse of children…
Idaho's H 465 (2024) targets AI-generated child sexual abuse material. New section 18-1507C makes it a felony, punishable by up to five years and a $5,000 fine, to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, possess or access an obscene visual depiction of a child in explicit sexual conduct, 'including a video or image created using generative AI or machine learning', and the child depicted need not actually exist. Receiving or possessing five or fewer such images is excused if they were promptly destroyed or reported to police. The act also expands sexual exploitation of a child (18-1507) to material altered to show an identifiable child. Effective July 1, 2024.
DISCLOSING EXPLICIT SYNTHETIC MEDIA – Adds to existing law to provide for the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media.
Idaho's H 575 (2024) created the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media in Idaho Code 18-6606. Synthetic media is an image or video created or altered with technical means, such as artificial intelligence, to realistically show an identifiable person doing something they did not do; explicit synthetic media shows sexual conduct or intimate parts. Knowingly disclosing it without consent when it would cause substantial emotional distress, disclosing it to harass or degrade, or threatening to disclose it to extort money or images is a misdemeanor, and a felony (up to 10 years, $25,000) for a repeat offense within five years. Effective July 1, 2024.
PERSONHOOD – Adds to existing law to provide that environmental elements, artificial intelligence, nonhuman animals, and inanimate objects s…
Idaho's H 720 (2022) adds Idaho Code 5-346, which provides that, notwithstanding any other law, artificial intelligence, environmental elements, nonhuman animals and inanimate objects shall not be granted personhood in Idaho. The section does not revoke the legal-person status of any municipality, organization, corporation or other legal or business entity recognized by Idaho law before July 1, 2022. It took effect July 1, 2022.
TRANSPORTATION – Amends existing law to revise provisions regarding personal delivery devices.
Idaho's H 528 (2022) updates the rules for personal delivery devices, the sidewalk delivery robots defined as devices equipped with technology that lets them operate with or without the active control or monitoring of a person. A device may not operate on a sidewalk or crosswalk unless its operator, the entity or agent with direct physical control or monitoring of its navigation and operation, is actively controlling or monitoring it. The act raises the weight limit to under 550 pounds excluding cargo and caps sidewalk speed at 10 mph. Effective July 1, 2022.
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE – Adds to existing law to provide certain requirements and restrictions for pretrial risk assessment tools.
Idaho's H 118 (2019) requires transparency for algorithmic pretrial risk assessment tools, which score factors to estimate a defendant's risk and recommend bail or release conditions. All such tools must be transparent: the documents, data, records and information used to build or validate them, and their ongoing usage and validation policies, are open to public inspection, auditing and testing. A criminal defendant whose case involved a tool may review all calculations and data behind their own risk score, and no builder or user may claim trade secret or other intellectual property protection to block that discovery. Effective July 1, 2019.
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