State lawmakers adjourned last Friday night after passing bills limiting the use of AI and digital devices in schools, protecting people from AI deepfakes, and ensuring that medical decisions are made by qualified humans and not machines.

Lawmakers meeting in Salt Lake City are scheduled to adjourn on Friday afternoon. Four AI-related bills remain active and await a final floor vote for passage.

We have a complete guide to Utah’s AI Transparency Act, which would require large frontier model developers to implement safety protections for children and to prevent catastrophic events affecting public safety.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed HB 452, regarding the regulation of AI-driven mental health chatbots, in late March. The new law requires mental health platforms to inform users that they are interacting with an AI-driven machine, not a human therapist.