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California SB 243 (2025), Companion chatbots
California State Legislature · published 2025-10-13 · Chapter 677, Statutes of 2025
Open the sourceca-sb243-companion-chatbots · last checked 2026-10-18 · voice: government · origin: global north
Signed and filed on 13 October 2025. The official legislature site did not load, so the chaptered text was read on LegiScan. Its effective date (expected 1 January 2026 under California’s default rule) was not confirmed on an official page.
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By 2025–26, governments and regulators in several countries had acted on companion chatbots and young users: US study orders on effects on children, a California law on disclosure and crisis protocols, an Italian fine that cited missing age verification, and Australian industry codes applied to companions.
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