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Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy Amendments

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House Bill 320 rewrites large portions of the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 72), which the 2024 Legislature created via SB149 to establish the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and its regulatory sandbox. The bill replaces the sandbox's old model — where the office formally invited and accepted applicants into a "learning laboratory" — with a direct agreement-based model: a participant now applies for either a regulatory mitigation agreement, which lets a company deploy AI technology despite a conflicting state law or rule, or a new joint interpretation agreement, which instead clarifies how an existing law applies to the technology without waiving it. Agreements must now specify required consumer disclosures and audit-compliance reporting, and are subject to mandatory regular audits by the office — none of which existed under the 2024 original. The office may grant up to two 12-month extensions per agreement, up from one, for a possible three-year run, and gains new express authority to publish AI guidance for Utah consumers. The bill also broadens who the office consults when setting its research agenda to include other state agencies and governmental entities, and repeals the old standalone participation section (13-72-304) outright. The Governor's signature was filed with the Lieutenant Governor's office March 18, 2026; the act took effect May 6, 2026.

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