AWARE Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5360 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 5360

To direct the Federal Trade Commission to develop and make available to 
  the public educational resources for parents, educators, and minors 
with respect to the safe and responsible use of AI chatbots by minors, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 15, 2025

Mrs. Houchin (for herself and Mr. Auchincloss) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Federal Trade Commission to develop and make available to 
  the public educational resources for parents, educators, and minors 
with respect to the safe and responsible use of AI chatbots by minors, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``AI Warnings And Resources for 
Education Act'' or the ``AWARE Act''.

SEC. 2. AI CHATBOTS AND MINORS.

    (a) Educational Resources.--Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Commission, in consultation with 
relevant Federal agencies, shall develop and make available to the 
public educational resources for parents, educators, and minors with 
respect to the safe and responsible use of AI chatbots by minors.
    (b) Contents.--The educational resources developed and made 
available under subsection (a) shall include resources on--
            (1) how to identify safe and unsafe AI chatbot use;
            (2) privacy and data collection practices; and
            (3) best practices for parents supervising the use of AI 
        chatbots by minors.
    (c) Youville.--The Commission shall model the educational resources 
developed and made available under subsection (a) on the Youville 
program of the Commission.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Artificial intelligence.--The term ``artificial 
        intelligence'' has the meaning given such term in section 5002 
        of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 
        (15 U.S.C. 9401).
            (2) AI chatbot.--The term ``AI chatbot'' means an 
        artificial intelligence system, marketed to and available for 
        use by consumers, that engages in interactive, natural-language 
        communication with a user and generates or selects content in 
        response to user inputs (including text, voice, or other 
        inputs) using a conversational context.
            (3) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Trade Commission.
            (4) Minor.--The term ``minor'' means an individual under 
        the age of 18 years.
            (5) Parent.--The term ``parent'' includes a legal guardian 
        of a minor.
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