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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6489 
To ensure that providers of chatbots clearly and conspicuously disclose to 
users who are minors that chatbots are artificial intelligence systems, 
not natural person, and do not provide advice from licensed professionals, 
and for other proposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 5, 2025 
Mrs. HOUCHIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To ensure that providers of chatbots clearly and conspicu-
ously disclose to users who are minors that chatbots 
are artificial intelligence systems, not natural person, 
and do not provide advice from licensed professionals, 
and for other proposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Adoles-
cents From Exploitative BOTs Act’’ or the ‘‘SAFE BOTs 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR CHATBOTS USED BY MINORS. 
(a) CERTAIN STATEMENTS PROHIBITED.—A chatbot 
provider may not provide to a covered user a chatbot that 
states to the covered user that the chatbot is a licensed 
professional (unless such statement is true). 
(b) DISCLOSURE REQUIRED.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—A chatbot provider shall 
clearly and conspicuously disclose, in accordance 
with paragraphs (2) and (3), to each covered user of 
a chatbot of such provider notice of the following: 
(A) The chatbot is an artificial intelligence 
system and not a natural person. 
(B) Resources for contacting a suicide and 
crisis intervention hotline. 
(2) TIMING.— 
(A) AI SYSTEM DISCLOSURE.—A disclosure 
under paragraph (1)(A) shall be made— 
(i) at the initiation of the first inter-
action of a covered user with a chatbot; 
and 
(ii) at any point at which, during an 
interaction of a covered user with a 
chatbot, the covered user prompts the 
chatbot about whether the chatbot is an 
artificial intelligence system. 
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(B) CRISIS
RESOURCES
DISCLOSURE.—A 
disclosure under paragraph (1)(B) shall be 
made at any point at which, during an inter-
action of a covered user with a chatbot, the cov-
ered user prompts the chatbot about suicide or 
suicidal ideation. 
(3) USE OF PLAIN LANGUAGE.—A disclosure 
under paragraph (1) shall be made in a clear, age- 
appropriate, and plain language manner that is rea-
sonably understandable by a minor. 
(c) POLICIES REQUIRED.—A chatbot provider shall 
establish, implement, and maintain reasonable policies, 
practices, and procedures— 
(1) to ensure that a chatbot of the provider ad-
vises a covered user to take a break from the 
chatbot at the point at which a continuous and unin-
terrupted interaction of the covered user with the 
chatbot has lasted for 3 hours; and 
(2) to address, with respect to covered users— 
(A) sexual material harmful to minors; 
(B) gambling; and 
(C) the distribution, sale, or use of illegal 
drugs, tobacco products, or alcohol. 
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(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsections (a), (b), and (c) 
shall take effect on the date that is 1 year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
(e) ENFORCEMENT BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMIS-
SION.— 
(1) UNFAIR
OR
DECEPTIVE
ACTS
OR
PRAC-
TICES.—A violation of subsection (a), (b), or (c) 
shall be treated as a violation of a regulation under 
section 18(a)(1)(B) of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion Act (15 U.S.C. 57a(a)(1)(B)) regarding unfair 
or deceptive acts or practices. 
(2) POWERS
OF
COMMISSION.—The Federal 
Trade Commission shall enforce subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) in the same manner, by the same means, 
and with the same jurisdiction, powers, and duties 
as though all applicable terms and provisions of the 
Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 41 et 
seq.) were incorporated into and made a part of this 
section. Any person who violates subsection (a), (b), 
or (c) shall be subject to the penalties and entitled 
to the privileges and immunities provided in the 
Federal Trade Commission Act. 
(3) AUTHORITY PRESERVED.—Nothing in this 
subsection may be construed to limit the authority 
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