{
  "jurisdiction": "ME",
  "name": "Maine",
  "posture": "no_model_bulletin",
  "citation": null,
  "action_date": null,
  "date_qualifier": null,
  "amended_effective": null,
  "verbatim_vs_modified": null,
  "source_id": "legislative-research",
  "provenance": {
    "posture": "naic-adoption-map-absence"
  },
  "other_activity": [
    {
      "type": "statute",
      "citation": "LD 2082 (132nd Legislature), Public Law Chapter 687",
      "title": "An Act to Regulate the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Providing Certain Mental Health Services",
      "subject": "Bars AI from making independent therapeutic decisions, engaging in therapeutic communication with clients, or generating treatment plans or recommendations without clinician review, and bars offering therapy to the public through AI rather than a licensed professional. Limits AI to administrative and supplementary roles under the licensee's full responsibility. Supplementary use is conditioned on a recorded or transcribed session with the client informed in writing and giving written, revocable consent.",
      "status": "enacted",
      "enacted": "2026-04-13",
      "effective": "2026-07-29",
      "source": "https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?item=3&paper=HP1397&snum=132",
      "confidence": "primary",
      "verified_on": "2026-08-21",
      "correction": "Citation was wrong. Recorded as 'HB 2082'; Maine numbers bills as Legislative Documents, so the correct citation is LD 2082, enacted as Public Law Chapter 687."
    }
  ],
  "_provenance": {
    "source": "Implementation of NAIC Model Bulletin: Use of AI Systems by Insurers",
    "url": "https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/legal-adoption-map-ai-model-bulletin.pdf",
    "source_as_of": "2026-08-06",
    "retrieved": "2026-08-18",
    "caveat": "Index, not authority. Confirm against the issuing regulator's own bulletin before relying on this for a compliance decision."
  }
}