Idaho

Summary

Idaho enacted two AI-behavior statutes in its 2026 legislative session. Senate Bill 1297, the Conversational AI Safety Act (signed March 31, 2026, effective July 1, 2027), requires operators of publicly accessible conversational AI services to disclose to users that they are interacting with an AI — not a human — and imposes heightened safeguards for minors, including persistent visible disclaimers and crisis-service referrals for self-harm prompts; enforcement is by the Attorney General with no private right of action. Senate Bill 1227, the Generative AI in Education Framework Act (signed March 2026, effective July 1, 2026), directs the State Department of Education to develop guidance for responsible AI use in classrooms, requires vendor procurement to comply with student data-privacy law, and prohibits AI tools from replacing human teachers. Idaho has no enacted automated-decision accountability law and no AI-training-data or crawler-specific statute. The Idaho Consumer Protection Act (Idaho Code § 48-603) provides a general backstop against deceptive AI impersonation, and a 2025 chatbot-disclosure bill (HB 127) that would have added an explicit provision died in committee. A deepfakes/right-of-publicity bill (SB 2076) and an AI-definition bill (HB 1723) were also progressing through the 2026 session, but their final enacted status could not be confirmed from available sources.