Artificial Intelligence Amendments (SB 149, 2024), enacting the Utah Artificial Intelligence Policy Act

Summary

Created Utah's Artificial Intelligence Policy Act. It provided that using generative AI is no defence to a violation of consumer protection law and required disclosure of generative AI on request in consumer matters and, prominently at the start of an exchange, in regulated occupations, with fines of up to USD 2,500 per violation. It created an Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and an AI Learning Laboratory to study AI risks and policy, which can grant temporary regulatory mitigation agreements with safeguards, and made offences committed with the aid of generative AI punishable. In 2025 its disclosure rules were replaced by a separate chapter with narrower duties.

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Status notes

Passed the Senate 26-0 on 13 Feb 2024 and the House 73-0 on 28 Feb 2024; signed by the Governor on 13 Mar 2024 as Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 186, and in effect from 1 May 2024. The bill enacted the Act as Title 13, Chapter 70, codified as Chapter 72, together with Utah Code 13-2-12 (generative AI and consumer protection) and 76-2-107 (offences committed with the aid of generative AI). As enacted, the Act's chapter was to be repealed on 1 May 2025; S.B. 332 and S.B. 226 of 2025 moved that date to 1 Jul 2027. S.B. 226 also repealed 13-2-12 from 7 May 2025 and replaced it with Title 13, Chapter 75: disclosure on request now needs a clear and unambiguous request, regulated occupations must disclose proactively only in high-risk AI interactions (such as collecting health, financial or biometric data or giving financial, legal, medical or mental health advice), and an AI that discloses its nature at the outset and throughout gets a safe harbour. H.B. 320 of 2026, in effect from 6 May 2026, revised the Office's duties, added joint interpretation agreements with agencies and other governmental entities, regular audits of participants and up to two 12-month extensions, and repealed the participation section, which had required participants to report incidents of consumer harm at once. H.B. 452 of 2025 separately regulates mental health chatbots.

Sources

Open the official source https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0149.html

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History

1. 2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "tx-traiga", "id": "US-TX-01"}] → [{"slug": "tx-traiga", "id": "US-TX-01"}, {"id": "US-IL-02", "slug": "il-hb-1806 — two-way link added: US-IL-02 link(s) to US-UT-012026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18notes: Signed 13 Mar 2024; effective 1 May 2024 (standard Utah effective date, not show → Passed the Senate 26-0 on 13 Feb 2024 and the House 73-0 on 28 Feb 2024; signed — rewritten from the stored files: votes, Laws of Utah chapter, effective date, codification, the original repeal date and its extension, S.B. 226's replacement of 13-2-12, H.B. 320's changes and H.B. 452; the Axios report on a 2026 bill removed (no stored source)2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18safety_topics: ["transparency & labelling", "accountability & liability"] → ["transparency & labelling", "accountability & liability", "evaluation & testing — 'evaluation & testing' added (the Laboratory analyses AI risks and supervises limited testing under regulatory mitigation)2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-18summary: Makes businesses responsible under consumer-protection law for their generative → Created Utah's Artificial Intelligence Policy Act. It provided that using genera — rewritten from the enrolled text: the scope of the disclosure duty corrected, fines, the Laboratory's purpose and the offence provision added, and the 2025 replacement of the disclosure rules noted2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-18official_identifier: Utah S.B. 149 (2024 General Session); Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 72 → Utah S.B. 149 (2024 General Session); Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 186; Utah Code — Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 186 added (cited by the 2025 and 2026 amending bills); the codification as Title 13, Chapter 72 is now supported by the Utah Code text and the amending bills2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-18date_last_updated: – → 2026-05-06 — set to 6 May 2026, when H.B. 320 (2026), the latest amendment of the Act's chapter, took effect2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
7. 2026-10-18issuing_body: Utah State Legislature; signed by Governor Spencer Cox → Utah State Legislature (2024 General Session; chief sponsor Sen. Kirk A. Cullimo — the stored files give the sponsors and the session but do not name the Governor; the Governor's name is removed and the sponsors added2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Utah State Legislature (2024 General Session; chief sponsor Sen. Kirk A. Cullimore, House sponsor Rep. Jefferson Moss); signed by the Governor. Artificial Intelligence Amendments (SB 149, 2024), enacting the Utah Artificial Intelligence Policy Act [Utah S.B. 149 (2024 General Session); Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 186; Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 72]. 2024-03-13. https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/SB0149.html. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/US-UT-01/2026-10-11/official.html retrieved 2026-10-11 14:05:31 UTC, SHA-256 02db4dfb7fcc9c536f4aa7e006458da3ed0ba3567a7cc4478db9e3d5c3195514. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-UT-01.

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