Bill No. 178/2024-2025 C.S. on the Promotion, Management and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Senate-approved text, under review in the Chamber of Deputies)

Summary

Thirty-one-article bill to guarantee and promote the responsible implementation, use and supervision of AI systems affecting persons in Bolivia. It sets principles of transparency, safety and non-discrimination; grants rights not to be subject to solely automated decisions and to human oversight; requires providers to inform users of AI use and run post-market monitoring plans; prohibits subliminal manipulation, exploitation of vulnerabilities and social scoring; defines general-purpose models with systemic risk; makes developers and users liable for negligent harm; and makes AGETIC the regulator with graduated sanctions.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Spanish text.

Safety topics

Status notes

The Chamber of Senators approved the text on 22 Oct 2025, and its President transmitted it the same day to the Chamber of Deputies under Article 163(5) of the Constitution; the Chamber received it on 29 Oct 2025. By note of 27 Apr 2026 a deputy asked the Chamber's President, under Article 117 of its General Rules, to reinstate ('reposición') the bill so that its treatment continues in the current legislative year; the Chamber lists it among bills under review. The bill also provides fiscal, financial and administrative incentives for AI research and innovation (Article 15), requires the Executive to regulate it within 90 days of publication and to amend Supreme Decree No. 2514 of 9 Sep 2015, and gives AGETIC 180 days to issue technical guidelines and the national AI strategy.

Sources

Open the official source https://diputados.gob.bo/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PL-CS-178-2024-2025.pdf

Secondary source: https://diputados.gob.bo/proyectos-de-ley-en-revision/

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — recorded as none found (the field was missing)2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: The Senate approved the bill in October 2025 (press: 22 Oct 2025) and its Presid → The Chamber of Senators approved the text on 22 Oct 2025, and its President tran — rewritten from the stored scan: the Senate approval date now rests on the text's own closing formula, the reposición request's legal basis, and the bill's incentives and additional provisions added; the remark on the unconfirmed Senate filing date and the press reference moved to verification.note2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18date_last_updated: 2026-04-27 → – — set to null: 27 Apr 2026 is a deputy's request to reinstate the bill for the new legislative year, not an amendment or new version; the latest text is the Senate's text of 22 Oct 2025, already date_published2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18issuing_body: Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia - Chamber of Senators (approved; s → Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia – Chamber of Senators (approved te — the sponsor's name and party rest only on unstored press reports; the stored scan names the Chamber of Senators (its President and First Secretary sign the text) and the transmission to the Chamber of Deputies2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia – Chamber of Senators (approved text), transmitted to the Chamber of Deputies for review. Bill No. 178/2024-2025 C.S. on the Promotion, Management and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Senate-approved text, under review in the Chamber of Deputies) [PL N° 178/2024-2025 C.S. (PL-CS-178-2024-2025)]. 2025-10-22. https://diputados.gob.bo/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/PL-CS-178-2024-2025.pdf. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/BO-01/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:49:27 UTC, SHA-256 517bb5c18e98f02d8b63195711511b0007f0a32695ed5b2ba38bf0497cb37876. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record BO-01.

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