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Committee reviews bill to bar AI from delivering mental‑health services without clinician review
Summary
A legislative committee reviewed a draft that would prohibit entities from offering mental‑health services through AI unless a licensed mental‑health professional reviews and approves the AI output; members debated definitions (including whether to name generative AI), enforcement via the Consumer Protection Act, and HIPAA/FDA language before asking staff to redraft and solicit stakeholder input.
A legislative Health & Welfare markup Thursday focused on a draft bill that would bar companies or other entities from offering mental‑health services directly through artificial intelligence without a licensed clinician’s review and approval.
Katie Grant, special education finance director (speaker 3), told the committee the bill’s purpose is “preventing psychological harm, including death by suicide, by ensuring that mental‑health services are delivered by mental‑health professionals and not independently by AI systems.” She read the draft prohibition aloud, saying an entity “shall not offer or provide mental health services through AI without the review and approval of a mental health professional.”
The committee’s discussion centered on three technical questions: scope,…
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