State AI law
Utah
AI laws
We track 33 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Utah. 29 have been signed or enacted.
Last updated Oct 12, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Utah’s bills stand
33 bills- Introduced
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- In committee
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- Passed a chamber
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- Signed or enacted
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- Dead or vetoed
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Overview
How Utah regulates AI
Utah has 33 published AI-related bills in our register, 29 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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As of October 16, 2026, Utah has enacted 29 AI laws, according to AI Laws by State. That is the 2nd most among the 50 states and D.C.
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Deepfake Laws in Utah
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- Jan 1, 2027 HB276 · Artificial Intelligence Modifications
Utah AI bills
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Utah SB 256 (2026) applies defamation law to deepfakes and strengthens likeness rights. It is not a defense to libel or slander that content was created with generative AI, computer animation or digital manipulation. Before suing over digitally created content, a plaintiff must give the publisher written notice, and removal within 10 days limits recovery to actual damages. It establishes an exclusive right to consent to use of one's identity and extends the Abuse of Personal Identity Act, as amended by 2025 SB 271, to distributing or trafficking in identity-replication tools, with exemptions. Effective May 6, 2026.
Child Sexual Abuse Material Amendments
Utah HB 289 (2026) restructures how the state treats AI-generated child sexual abuse material. It defines apparent child sexual abuse material as a realistic visual depiction of a minor generated or created through artificial intelligence, generative AI or any other means, moves artificially generated material out of the child sexual abuse material definition, and creates standalone offenses: possession is a second-degree felony with each item a separate offense, alongside offenses for distributing apparent CSAM and for producing or distributing obscene child sexual abuse material. Effective May 6, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence Modifications
Utah's HB 276 enacts two AI laws. The Digital Voyeurism Prevention Act bars AI image generation services from distributing counterfeit intimate images of a real person without verified consent, requires covered platforms to remove reported images within 48 hours, and lets victims sue, subject to safe harbors. The Digital Content Provenance Standards Act requires large online platforms to show content provenance data and generative AI providers with over 1,000,000 monthly users and capture-device makers (devices made for sale from 2028) to embed latent disclosures; fines up to $2,500 per violation. Signed March 24, 2026; effective January 1, 2027.
Autonomous Systems Amendments
Utah's SB 292 limits civil liability for automated driving systems (ADS). Noneconomic damages in actions over ADS-equipped vehicles are capped at $1,000,000 (not for wrongful death), with no punitive damages for level four or five ADS. People hurt by a driverless level four or five vehicle may sue its owner or dispatcher without proving negligence or defect, but recovery is capped at $100,000. Makers and developers of level four or five ADS are shielded from negligence claims and face product liability under stricter defect rules and a state-of-the-art defense. Signed March 23, 2026; effective May 6, 2026; the limits are repealed July 1, 2030.
Data Privacy Amendments
Utah's HB 450 reorganizes oversight of how state and local government entities handle personal data under the Government Data Privacy Act. It restructures the Utah Privacy Commission to include state agency, city, county and public education members, moves its support to the Utah Office of Data Privacy, makes a data privacy ombudsperson part of that office, sets a complaint process (complaints go first to the entity, then to mediation), and moves the state privacy auditor's duties to the state auditor. The act already treats facial recognition, automated decision-making and profiling as high-risk processing. It governs government, not businesses. Effective May 6, 2026.
Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy Amendments
Utah's HB 320 revises the existing Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and its AI Learning Laboratory (Title 13, Chapter 72). Besides regulatory mitigation agreements, which let a participant use AI despite a law or rule that might impede it, the office may sign joint interpretation agreements clarifying how a state law or rule applies to an AI technology. Agreements must set consumer disclosures and audit reporting; the office must audit participants regularly and may end an agreement at any time. Terms run up to 12 months with up to two extensions. Signed March 18, 2026; effective May 6, 2026.
Digital Skills Amendments
Utah HB 218 (2026) requires the state's grade 7-8 digital skills course to include artificial intelligence literacy, covering AI capabilities, limitations, ethical considerations and societal implications, and understanding algorithms and their influence on digital experiences. It also creates an advisory council on technology-related courses. Effective May 6, 2026.
Classroom Technology Amendments
Utah HB 273 (2026) sets a framework for AI in K-12 classrooms. The State Board of Education must publish a model AI use policy under which educators use only approved student-facing AI tools and may not use generative AI to independently grade student work or make high-stakes decisions such as placement, discipline or program eligibility. Students may use generative AI for academic work only when an educator authorizes it for a specific purpose, and parents get written notice when generative AI is used in instruction or assessment. High schools may offer AI sandbox courses within CTE. Effective July 1, 2026.
Joint Resolution Amending Rules of Evidence to Address Machine-Generated Evidence
Utah H.J.R. 26 adds Rule 707 to the Utah Rules of Evidence, using the Legislature's power to amend court rules by a two-thirds vote. "Machine-generated evidence" is output of a machine-based system that autonomously generates an inference, prediction, classification or conclusion. Offered without an expert, it is admissible only if it helps the trier of fact, rests on sufficient facts or data, is the product of reliable principles and methods, and applies them reliably to the case. It covers evidence entered directly or with lay testimony, but not simple measuring instruments. It took effect on passage (House 66-1, Feb. 26; Senate 27-0, Mar. 6, 2026).
Artificial Intelligence Transparency Amendments
Utah's HB 286 (2026), Artificial Intelligence Transparency Amendments (first substitute), would have enacted the AI Transparency Act: a large frontier AI developer would have to write, implement and publish a public safety plan for catastrophic risks; per the bill's highlighted provisions, developers would also publish child protection plans and risk assessment summaries and report safety incidents to the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy, with civil penalties and whistleblower protections. It never passed the House; the enacting clause was struck and the bill filed on March 6, 2026.
Autonomous Vehicle Amendments
Utah's HB 581 (2026), Autonomous Vehicle Amendments (second substitute), would have directed a large public transit district to request information on a large-scale autonomous vehicle public transit network and report by November 30, 2026, updated autonomous vehicle definitions, and (per its highlighted provisions) directed the Department of Transportation to request information on autonomous vehicles. It passed the House 61-9-5 on March 3, 2026; the Senate struck the enacting clause on March 6 and the House filed it.
Law Enforcement Artificial Intelligence Amendments
Utah's SB 205 (2026), Law Enforcement Artificial Intelligence Amendments (second substitute), would have amended the 2025 law on police use of generative AI to require agency policies to cover available oversight or safeguard settings and to require agencies to post their policy publicly. It passed the Senate on February 26, 2026 (20-0-9); the House struck the enacting clause on March 6 and the Senate filed it.
Surveillance and Investigatory Technology Amendments
Utah's H.B. 606 (Rep. Ryan D. Wilcox), Surveillance and Investigatory Technology Amendments, would have limited a law enforcement agency's use of surveillance or investigatory technology, defined to include facial recognition systems, biometric surveillance information, and location tracking, with "technology" defined to include AI technology. The limits would start July 1, 2027. The enacting clause was struck and the bill filed as not passed on March 6, 2026.
Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Amendments
Utah's SB 226 replaces the 2024 generative AI disclosure rules with Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 75. A supplier using generative AI with an individual in a consumer transaction must disclose it is AI, not a human, if the individual clearly asks. Regulated professionals must prominently disclose generative AI at the start of high-risk interactions (collecting health, financial or biometric data, or personalized financial, legal, medical or mental health advice). AI that discloses itself at the outset and throughout gets a safe harbor. Fines up to $2,500 per violation. Signed March 27, 2025; effective May 7, 2025.
Unauthorized Artificial Intelligence Impersonation Amendments
Utah's SB 271 extends the state's abuse-of-personal-identity law (Utah Code Title 45, Chapter 3) to AI. Personal identity now covers name, picture, video likeness, voice and audiovisual appearance, including recreations made with generative AI or digital manipulation. Using it without consent in content for advertising, fundraising or sales in a way that implies endorsement, is likely to confuse or falsely suggests participation is abuse, as is knowingly selling or licensing a tool whose primary purpose is unauthorized commercial use of personal identity. Victims may sue for injunctions, damages, exemplary damages and fees. Signed March 27, 2025; effective May 7, 2025.
Data Privacy Amendments
Utah H.B. 444 (2025) amends the Government Data Privacy Act for state and local governmental entities. It defines "automated decision making" (decisions about a person by automated processing without human review) and says high-risk processing activities may include facial recognition technology and automated decision making. Each entity must describe its high-risk processing in an annual privacy program report, and the Utah Office of Data Privacy, which monitors high-risk processing, must help identify best practices on automated decision making and synthetic data. It applies to government, not businesses. Passed by two-thirds, it took effect when signed on March 27, 2025.
Artificial Intelligence Amendments
Utah's HB 452 regulates mental health chatbots: generative AI that holds therapy-like conversations and that the supplier represents, or a reasonable person would believe, can provide mental health therapy or help manage mental health conditions. Suppliers may not sell or share Utah users' identifiable health information or input (limited exceptions), may not use input to target or tailor ads, must label in-chat ads, and must disclose the chatbot is AI before access, after seven days of non-use and when asked. Fines up to $2,500 per violation. Signed March 25, 2025; effective May 7, 2025.
Law Enforcement Usage of Artificial Intelligence
Utah SB 180 (2025) requires each law enforcement agency to have a policy on employees' use of generative AI, covering approved tools, permitted tasks, review of AI output and discipline for violations. A police report or other law enforcement record created wholly or partly with generative AI must carry a disclaimer that it contains AI-generated content, and the author must certify that they read and reviewed it for accuracy. The act defines artificial intelligence and generative AI. Effective May 7, 2025.
Artificial Intelligence Revisions
Utah's SB 332 amends Utah Code § 63I-2-213 to move the repeal date of the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (Title 13, Chapter 72, home of the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and the AI Learning Laboratory) from May 1, 2025 to July 1, 2027. It makes no other change. Its effective-date clause applies on the Governor's approval if two-thirds of each house voted for it; it passed the Senate 24-0 and the House 74-0, so it took effect when signed on March 25, 2025. SB 226 made the same change two days later.
Sexual Extortion Amendments
Utah HB 13 (2025) amends the crime of sexual extortion in Utah Code 76-5b-204 to include threatening to distribute a counterfeit intimate image, the term Utah law uses for computer-generated or manipulated depictions of an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct. Sextortion using deepfake images is therefore covered. The Legislature's passed-bills list shows it signed and effective February 27, 2025.
Utah Legal Personhood Amendments
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.
Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity Amendments
Utah SB 84 (2024) is a Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity bill containing an AI program. New Utah Code 63N-3-1301 and -1302 create the Innovation in Artificial Intelligence Grant Pilot Program, under which GOEO, subject to available funds, awards grants to a business that partners with a public or private school to develop a program, materials and curriculum teaching K-12 students a course on artificial intelligence with practical training for technology careers. The act sets application and evaluation criteria, written grant agreements, rulemaking and annual reports. Effective May 1, 2024.
Artificial Pornographic Images Amendments
Utah HB 148 (2024) extends the state's sexual exploitation offenses to computer-generated video. It adds 'or video' to the computer or computer-generated image language in the definitions of child sexual abuse material, vulnerable adult sexual abuse material, intimate image and counterfeit intimate image in Utah Code 76-5b-103, -203, -204 and -205, so AI-generated or manipulated videos are covered as well as still images. Effective May 1, 2024.
Sexual Exploitation of a Minor Amendments
Utah HB 238 (2024) expands the definition of child sexual abuse material to include a depiction that is artificially generated and depicts an individual with substantial characteristics of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The change brings AI-generated child sexual abuse material within Utah's sexual exploitation of a minor offenses, with conforming changes and a severability clause. Effective May 1, 2024.
Criminal Offense Amendments
Utah SB 66 (2024) amends the counterfeit intimate image offense in Utah Code 76-5b-205 so a counterfeit intimate image includes a depiction 'edited, manipulated, generated, or altered' to show the likeness of an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct. Adding 'generated' makes clear that fully AI-generated intimate images, not only altered real images, are covered. Effective May 1, 2024.
Criminal Justice Amendments
Utah HB 366 (2024) is a criminal justice bill whose AI-relevant provisions limit algorithmic decision-making. Courts may not rely solely on an algorithm or a risk assessment tool score when deciding on diversion or determining a sentence (Utah Code 77-18-103). The Administrative Office of the Courts must collect data on risk assessment scores. Other provisions on the sentencing commission chair and escape offenses are unrelated to AI. Effective May 1, 2024.
Information Technology Act Amendments
Utah's SB 131 requires paid election communications that contain AI-generated synthetic media to carry set disclosures. Audio must say "Contains content generated by AI." at the beginning and end; visuals must show a set AI label throughout the synthetic portions; online versions must also carry embedded tamper-evident content provenance data. A court may impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation on the creator or sponsor. Judges and the parole board may treat committing or facilitating a crime with the intentional or knowing use and material assistance of AI as an aggravating factor. Signed March 13, 2024; effective May 1, 2024 (the sentencing provision July 1, 2024).
Public Surveillance Prohibition Amendments
Utah SB 231 (2024) defines biometric surveillance information as analysis of surveillance information using biometric software to identify a person or their location from physical attributes, and bars a government entity from obtaining it without a warrant, subject to listed exceptions. Entities must adopt policies on the use, management and auditing of such information. The act also amends the definition of a facial recognition comparison in the 2021 facial recognition chapter so it excludes biometric surveillance information. Effective May 1, 2024.
Social Media Amendments
Utah's HB 464 (Laws of Utah 2024, chapter 224) adds Utah Code 78B-3-1101 to -1103 on harm to minors from an "algorithmically curated social media service," one that drives engagement mainly through a curation algorithm (a process that personalizes which content a user sees and how, to encourage engagement) and engagement-driven design. A Utah minor account holder or parent may sue the company for a diagnosed adverse mental health outcome caused by the minor's excessive use, with a rebuttable presumption that the curation algorithm and design caused it; a company that complies with specified safeguards gets the opposite presumption. These sections took effect October 1, 2024.
Artificial Intelligence Amendments
Utah's SB 149 created the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act: an Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy in the Department of Commerce and an AI Learning Laboratory in which the office may grant temporary regulatory mitigation agreements. It also made generative AI no defense to consumer-protection violations and required generative AI disclosures, which SB 226 replaced on May 7, 2025. The Act was set to be repealed May 1, 2025; SB 332 and SB 226 moved that to July 1, 2027, and HB 320 revised the lab from May 6, 2026. Signed March 13, 2024; effective May 1, 2024.
Intimate Image Distribution Prohibition
Utah HB 193 (2021) created the offense of unlawful distribution of a counterfeit intimate image. A counterfeit intimate image is any visual depiction, including a computer-generated one, edited, manipulated or altered to depict the likeness of an identifiable person nude or engaged in sexual conduct. Distributing one without the person's consent, knowing or having reason to know it would cause emotional distress or harm, is a crime, with an aggravated offense when the person depicted is a child. Law enforcement and crime-reporting activity is exempt.
Governmental Use of Facial Recognition Technology
Utah SB 34 (2021) enacts Utah Code Title 77, Chapter 23e on government use of facial recognition technology, defined as a computer system that uses an algorithm to compare facial biometric data of an unknown person with known individuals. Only the Department of Public Safety may run facial recognition comparisons against image databases it shares or maintains, and only under listed conditions and a set request process. Employees must be trained, the public must be notified when a government entity uses facial recognition on images it takes, and the law sets which comparison records are public or protected.
Autonomous Vehicle Regulations
Utah HB 101 (2019) is the state's core autonomous vehicle law. It enacts Utah Code Title 41, Chapter 26, defining automated driving systems and related terms and allowing a vehicle to operate in Utah using an automated driving system. A vehicle with an engaged automated driving system is exempt from driver licensing requirements, must be titled, registered and insured, and is subject to a crash protocol. Political subdivisions may not regulate autonomous vehicles beyond state law.
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