PRINTER'S NO. 511
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.518
Session of
2025
INTRODUCED BY C. WILLIAMS, HANBIDGE, PIELLI, JAMES, STAATS,
PICKETT AND ARMANINI, FEBRUARY 5, 2025
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER PROTECTION, TECHNOLOGY AND
UTILITIES, FEBRUARY 5, 2025
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 17, 1968 (P.L.1224, No.387),
entitled "An act prohibiting unfair methods of competition
and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the conduct of
any trade or commerce, giving the Attorney General and
District Attorneys certain powers and duties and providing
penalties," further providing for definitions and for
unlawful acts or practices and exclusions.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2(4)(xxi) of the act of December 17, 1968
(P.L.1224, No.387), known as the Unfair Trade Practices and
Consumer Protection Law, is amended, clause (4) is amended by
adding a subclause and the section is amended by adding a clause
to read:
Section 2. Definitions.--As used in this act.
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(4) "Unfair methods of competition" and "unfair or deceptive
acts or practices" mean any one or more of the following:
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(xxi) Failing to comply with the terms of a written
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facing artificial intelligence utilized by a business.
[(xxi)] (xxii) Engaging in any other fraudulent or deceptive
conduct which creates a likelihood of confusion or of
misunderstanding.
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(14) "Artificial intelligence" means an artificial system
that:
(i) performs tasks under varying and unpredictable
circumstances without significant human oversight or can learn
from experience and improve such performance when exposed to
data sets;
(ii) is developed in any context, including software or
physical hardware; and
(iii) solves tasks requiring human-like perception,
cognition, planning, learning, communication or physical action,
or is designed to think or act like a human, including a
cognitive architecture or neural network, or act rationally,
including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that
achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning,
communication, decision making or action, or a set of
techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to
approximate a cognitive task.
Section 2. Section 3(a) of the act is amended to read:
Section 3. Unlawful Acts or Practices; Exclusions.-- (a)
Unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or
practices in the conduct of any trade or commerce as defined by
subclauses (i) through [ (xxi)] (xxii) of clause (4) of section 2
of this act and regulations promulgated under section 3.1 of
this act are hereby declared unlawful. The provisions of this
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30 act shall not apply to any owner, agent or employe of any radio
or television station, or to any owner, publisher, printer,
agent or employe of an Internet service provider or a newspaper
or other publication, periodical or circular, who, in good faith
and without knowledge of the falsity or deceptive character
thereof, publishes, causes to be published or takes part in the
publication of such advertisement.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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