{"slug": "iowa-ai-law-policy-updates", "title": "Iowa — AI Law & Policy Updates", "summary": "Iowa has not enacted a comprehensive AI law but has passed narrow statutes, including SF 2417 (effective July 1, 2027) requiring conversational AI disclosure and minor protection, and 2024 laws SF 2243 and HF 2240 criminalizing AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material.", "body_md": "No comprehensive AI law — narrow statutes enacted (conversational-AI safety SF 2417, eff. 2027; AI synthetic-media/CSAM laws SF 2243 & HF 2240, 2024) — **Status: No Law**\n\nIowa has not enacted a comprehensive AI law. Narrow AI statutes apply: effective July 1, 2027, operators of public-facing conversational AI must disclose that users are interacting with AI, protect minors, and adopt self-harm protocols (SF 2417); and 2024 laws criminalize AI-generated non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material. Existing consumer-protection laws may also apply to AI-driven decisions.\n\n**Recent developments:**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iowa-ai-law-policy-updates", "canonical_source": "https://ai-law-tracker.com/laws/iowa", "published_at": "2026-07-15 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 14:33:38.039547+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Iowa"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iowa-ai-law-policy-updates", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iowa-ai-law-policy-updates.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iowa-ai-law-policy-updates.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/iowa-ai-law-policy-updates.jsonld"}}