Binding law — in force
32 M.R.S. § 2113(6) and the six identical sections require a licensee using AI under the section to comply with all state and federal confidentiality and privacy laws and to ensure that any AI technology complies with them. Detect session notes, transcripts or other client records sent to a model API with no business-associate, HIPAA-eligible endpoint or de-identification safeguard.
me-ld2082.ai-privacy-compliance · 32 M.R.S. § 2113(6) (and the same text in the six other sections) · official source · jurisdictions: US-ME
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Binding law — in force
Under 32 M.R.S. § 2113(3) and the six identical sections enacted by P.L. 2026, c. 687, a licensee may use AI for supplementary support (records and therapy notes, progress analysis, resource referrals) only when the session is recorded or transcribed and only after the client or legal representative is told in writing that AI will be used, its specific purpose, and how session data collected by AI will be stored, retained, used for training and deleted when therapy ends, and gives consent. Consent is an explicit, affirmative, revocable written act (electronic or initials on a specific section of the general consent to treatment); accepting broad terms of use, hovering or closing content, and deception do not count. A licensee may not deny or refuse therapy solely because the client declines AI, and a client's waiver is void. Detect session recordings or transcripts reaching AI with no consent check, consent bundled into terms, and copy that makes AI consent a condition of care.
me-ld2082.ai-supplementary-support-notice-consent · 32 M.R.S. § 2113(3) (and the same text in the six other sections) · official source · jurisdictions: US-ME
The guard to add, and how far to trust this rule
Binding law — in force
32 M.R.S. § 2113(2) and (4), with the six identical sections enacted by P.L. 2026, c. 687, let a licensee use AI only for administrative support (scheduling, billing and claims, logistics messages without therapeutic content) or supplementary support, with full responsibility for all AI interactions, outputs and data use, and bar letting AI make independent therapeutic decisions, directly interact with clients in any form of therapeutic communication, or generate therapeutic recommendations or treatment plans without the licensee's review and approval. Detect practice software where model output reaches the client, sets a therapeutic decision, or becomes a treatment plan without the licensee's recorded approval.
me-ld2082.ai-therapy-role-limits · 32 M.R.S. § 2113(4) (and the same text in the six other sections) · official source · jurisdictions: US-ME
The guard to add, and how far to trust this rule
Binding law — in force
10 M.R.S. § 1500-EE(2), enacted by P.L. 2026, c. 687 (L.D. 2082), bars any person from providing, advertising or otherwise offering therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through internet-based AI, unless a licensed professional provides them. Therapy or psychotherapy services are services to diagnose, treat or address mental or behavioral health through therapeutic communication, which includes understanding a person's thoughts and emotions, therapeutic guidance, emotional support or empathy in response to distress, and treatment planning. A violation is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act; IRB-approved research is excepted. Detect an AI cast or marketed as the therapist, or therapy offered as delivered by AI.
me-ld2082.no-unlicensed-ai-therapy · 10 M.R.S. § 1500-EE(2) · official source · jurisdictions: US-ME
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