Committee hears experts backing restrictions on AI therapy apps and rules for clinician use
LD 20‑82 would bar unlicensed AI apps from marketing themselves as therapy and require licensed clinicians to keep a human ‘in the loop’ for AI uses; sponsor and clinicians said the bill protects patients while allowing limited administrative uses of AI, and the department and clinical groups largely supported the approach with requests for clearer HIPAA and enforcement language.
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Representative Amy (House District 111) presented LD 20‑82 as a two‑part bill to the committee, explaining it both regulates licensed clinicians’ use of AI tools and restricts internet‑based therapy apps that purport to provide psychotherapy without licensed oversight. She described a three‑tiered, risk‑based approach: permitted administrative uses (scheduling, billing), supplementary uses with client consent (notes, anonymized analytics), and a prohibition on AI making independent therapeutic decisions or generating treatment plans without licensed professional review. “Human clinicians must remain responsible for care,” she said.
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