House adds AI protections for explicit images and mental-health advertising language The House adopted language to add artificially generated explicit depictions of minors to child-protection statutes and accepted an amendment requiring truth-in-advertising for AI mental-health tools used in clinically oriented settings.

Missouri's House just took a crucial step to protect minors by criminalizing AI-generated explicit images and ensuring transparency in mental health services!

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Oregon task force adopts recommendations to reduce provider burdens and increase public-facing behavioral-health transparency The Joint Task Force on Regional Behavioral Health Accountability voted to adopt a final report that asks the Oregon Health Authority to reduce administrative barriers for residential treatment providers (with explicit attention to forensic and severe mental illness populations), to make CFAA-related reporting public-facing, and to use updated data

Oregon's task force is taking bold steps to enhance transparency in behavioral health and cut through the red tape for treatment providers, especially for those dealing with severe mental illness.

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Panel addresses parental rights in mental health evaluations for public school students Panel confirms parents must consent to mental health evaluations for public school children.

New Hampshire's Senate Committee is redefining parental rights by ensuring parents are fully informed and can consent to mental health evaluations for their children in public schools.

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