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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 09/15/25 - Enrolled
 09/05/25 - Amended Senate
 08/29/25 - Amended Senate
 07/17/25 - Amended Senate
 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly
 05/01/25 - Amended Assembly
 04/10/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-1064 Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/15/2025 02:00 PM

AB1064:v92#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 15, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 10, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 11, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 September 05, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 August 29, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 17, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 23, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 01, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 10, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1064

Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Pellerin)

February 20, 2025

An act to add Chapter 25.1 (commencing with Section 22757.20) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to artificial intelligence.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1064, Bauer-Kahan.
 Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act.

The California AI Transparency Act requires a person that creates, codes, or otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence system that has over 1,000,000 monthly visitors or users and is publicly accessible within the geographic boundaries of the state to make available an AI detection tool at no cost to the user that, among other things, allows a user to assess whether image, video, or audio content, or content that is any combination thereof, was created or altered by the covered provider’s generative artificial intelligence system. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 prohibits certain businesses from selling or sharing the personal information of consumers if the business has actual knowledge that the consumer is less than 16 years of age, unless the consumer, if the consumer is at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age, or the consumer’s parent or
 guardian, if the consumer is less than 13 years of age, has affirmatively authorized the sale or sharing of the consumer’s personal information.

This bill, the Leading Ethical AI Development (LEAD) for Kids Act, would, among other things related to the use of certain artificial intelligence systems by children, prohibit a person, partnership, corporation, business entity, or state or local government agency that makes a companion chatbot available to users from making a companion chatbot available to a child unless the companion chatbot is not foreseeably capable of doing certain things that could harm a child, including encouraging the child to engage in self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence, consumption of drugs or alcohol, or disordered eating.

The act would authorize the Attorney General to recover a certain civil penalty for a violation of the bill, as prescribed. The act would authorize a child who suffers
 actual harm as a result of a violation of the bill, or a parent or guardian acting on behalf of that child, to bring a civil action to recover, among other relief, actual damages.

This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Companion chatbots and social AI systems have already caused documented harms to children and adolescents, including incidents of grooming, exposure to sexually explicit material, encouragement of self-harm, and suicide.

(b) In Garcia v. Character Technologies, for example, a 14-year-old boy was allegedly groomed and exposed to hypersexualized interactions by a chatbot intentionally designed to mimic human relationships,
 which ultimately contributed to his death by suicide.

(c) In Raine v. OpenAI, a 16-year-old boy allegedly developed a deep emotional dependency on a chatbot that validated his suicidal thoughts, discouraged him from seeking help from his family, provided extensive technical instructions on suicide methods, encouraged him to consume alcohol to inhibit his survival instinct, and even helped draft a note, culmin