{"id":192318,"date":"2026-03-03T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027-virginia\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T13:00:13","slug":"house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel carries over artificial intelligence bills to 2027 &#8211; Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackchronicle.com\/mid-atlantic\/virginia\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027\/\">House panel carries over artificial intelligence bills to 2027 &#8211; Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blackchronicle.com\/mid-atlantic\/virginia\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027\/\">https:\/\/blackchronicle.com\/mid-atlantic\/virginia\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 07:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"blackchronicle.com\">blackchronicle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two artificial intelligence (AI) related bills from the Virginia Senate, SB 796 and SB 269, were delayed by the House Communications, Technology and Innovation Committee due to concerns about potential impacts on federal broadband funding.<\/li>\n<li>SB 796, known as the Artificial Intelligence Chatbots and Minors Act, would mandate safeguards for chatbots with significant users, particularly concerning emotional dependence or suicidal ideation among minors. Violations could lead to civil penalties of up to $50,000. The bill was amended to address business concerns and is now set to be revisited in the 2027 session.<\/li>\n<li>SB 269 would enable licensed mental health providers to use AI in therapy with patient consent but precludes AI from making independent diagnoses or treatments.<\/li>\n<li>The committee&#8217;s decision to carry over the bills until the next session in 2027 was motivated by concerns stemming from an executive order that could impact states&#8217; eligibility for federal broadband funding if they enact state-level AI regulations that conflict with federal policies.<\/li>\n<li>These concerns reflect a broader tension between state efforts to regulate AI for specific societal benefits against the backdrop of federal oversight and funding conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House panel carries over artificial intelligence bills to 2027 &#8211; Virginia https:\/\/blackchronicle.com\/mid-atlantic\/virginia\/house-panel-carries-over-artificial-intelligence-bills-to-2027\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-03&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/thecentersquare.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/2\/7a\/27a71f71-bc19-4ce1-b9df-6cace4e4bc22\/69605d23f05a3.image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-192318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192320,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192318\/revisions\/192320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}