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Bars websites, apps and services from letting users nudify images or videos of identifiable people and from advertising such tools, with a private right of action and attorney general civil penalties up to $500,000 per violation.
Prohibits installing or operating cryptocurrency kiosks in Minnesota from August 1, 2026, requires operators to remove them and pay out customer funds by December 31, 2026, and repeals the prior kiosk regulations.
Allows Minnesota financial institutions to offer and perform virtual-currency custody services for customers.
Commerce policy omnibus that enacted the Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act requiring social media platforms to publicly disclose engagement limits, ranking signals, usage statistics and product experiments, and barred internet service providers from blocking, throttling or paid prioritization of lawful internet traffic.
Special session health omnibus that requires social media platforms, starting July 1, 2026, to show a mental health warning label with crisis resources each time a user accesses the platform, under guidelines set by the Department of Health.
Commerce omnibus that, among many insurance and consumer provisions, bars health utilization review organizations from using automated processing alone, without clinician review, to make adverse determinations.
Creates a human services systems modernization fund, advisory council and legislative commission, lists artificial intelligence and other automation tools as eligible uses, and funds an AI chatbot for economic assistance program policy.
Requires large social media platforms to estimate users' ages, obtain verifiable parental consent for accounts of children 15 and under, set those accounts to the most private settings, and bar addictive features and targeted ads on them.
Would prohibit the nonconsensual creation, possession and dissemination of nudified images.
Would amend the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act to treat consumer health data as sensitive data and add protections for sensitive data.
Would establish a moratorium on new data centers and require a Public Utilities Commission report.
Would regulate the use of artificial intelligence in psychotherapy services and set civil penalties.
Would regulate employers' use of automated decision systems in hiring and other employment decisions.
Would require websites with a substantial share of material harmful to minors to verify users' ages, with attorney general enforcement and a private right of action.
Would bar persons from allowing minors to access AI chatbots for recreational or conversational purposes, with civil penalties.
Would set safety and disclosure requirements for developers of advanced artificial intelligence models, with civil remedies.
Would prohibit long-term care, life and disability insurers from using genetic information for certain purposes.
Would require employers to give notice and a transitional employment period to employees displaced by artificial intelligence, with penalties.
Would impose an excise tax on certain social media platform businesses.
Would place obligations on businesses regarding children's personal information and online product design, with attorney general enforcement.
Would prohibit companies from using data obtained through observation, inference or surveillance to set individualized prices for customers or wages for employees, with exceptions for loyalty programs and group discounts.
Would require consent before collecting biometric data, prohibit its sale, require deletion, and impose civil penalties.
Would set requirements for artificial intelligence chatbot technology and create a cause of action for harm caused by chatbots.
Would prohibit health carriers and utilization review organizations from using artificial intelligence in the utilization review process.
Would require data brokers to register with the attorney general, with enforcement and civil penalties.
Would require public hearings and certain disclosures before local approval of data center developments.
Would prohibit use of algorithms and artificial intelligence when reviewing health insurance prior authorization requests.
Would propose a state constitutional amendment providing that artificial intelligence is not protected by the right to free speech.
Would prohibit state and local government entities from using facial surveillance systems or information obtained from them.
Would allow payments to the state in cryptocurrency, authorize the State Board of Investment to invest in cryptocurrency, and modify related tax provisions.
Creates a crime for disseminating deep fakes to influence an election, a crime for nonconsensual dissemination of sexual deep fakes, and a civil cause of action for victims of nonconsensual sexual deep fakes.
Public safety omnibus that expanded the definition of child sexual abuse material to include obscene images of individuals indistinguishable from actual minors created with generative artificial intelligence.
Omnibus commerce and cannabis bill that enacted the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (Minn. Stat. chapter 325O), giving consumers rights to access, correct, delete and port their personal data, opt out of targeted advertising, sale and profiling, and question the result of significant profiling decisions, enforced by the attorney general.
Special session tax omnibus that, among other changes, repealed the sales and use tax exemption for electricity used by qualified data centers.
Regulates data centers with a load of 100 megawatts or more by setting utility service and clean energy tariff rules, imposing a $2 million to $5 million peak demand fee, requiring preapplication review of large water appropriations, and revising data center sales tax exemptions.
Would prohibit using artificial intelligence to dynamically set product prices.
Would provide for data center energy generation redundancy by easing rules for backup generation at data centers.
Would regulate social media use by minors ages 15 and younger and require anonymous age verification for websites harmful to minors.
Would prohibit social media platforms from using algorithms to target user-created content at minors.
Elections omnibus that broadened the election deep fake crime to cover the period before nominating conventions and after absentee voting begins, lowered the knowledge standard to reckless disregard, and made convicted candidates forfeit nomination or office.
Commerce omnibus that enacted the Digital Fair Repair Act requiring manufacturers to provide parts, tools and documentation for digital electronic equipment, and the Genetic Information Privacy Act governing direct-to-consumer genetic testing data.
Would have required online businesses likely to be accessed by children to assess and mitigate risks to minors and set high-privacy defaults, with attorney general enforcement.
Legislationsby Glyph