HB 2286 -- LEGAL PERSONHOOD

SPONSOR: Christensen

This bill prohibits a governmental entity from granting legal personhood to or recognizing legal personhood in artificial intelligence, an inanimate object, a body of water, land, real property, atmospheric gases, an astronomical object, weather, a plant, a nonhuman animal, or any member of a taxonomic species that is not a human being.

This bill is similar to HB 721 (2025).

Statutes affected:
Introduced (5990H.01): 1.206