Use of AI in civil and family proceedings (CNPCyF)

What it is. Adds a Sección Primera Bis (First Bis Section) to the Código Nacional de Procedimientos Civiles y Familiares (National Code of Civil and Family Proceedings) to regulate the use of AI tools in the civil and family justice system.

Who. Sen. Agustín Dorantes Lámbarri (PAN). When. Presented before the Comisión Permanente (Permanent Commission) on July 8, 2026. Status. Referred to the Comisiones Unidas de Justicia (United Commissions on Justice); de Análisis, Seguimiento y Evaluación sobre la Inteligencia Artificial en México (Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence in Mexico); and de Estudios Legislativos, Segunda (Legislative Studies Commissions, Second).

The principles it establishes

Subject to ten guiding principles: legality, transparency, traceability, human supervision, explainability, protection of personal data, non-discrimination, accountability, proportionality, and information security. Responsibility for actions and rulings remains with judges and public officials with jurisdictional functions: AI cannot replace legal reasoning, automatically assess evidence, determine disputed facts, or make decisions without human intervention.

Why it matters

It is one of the 14 mirror initiatives that Senator Dorantes presented on July 8, 2026 to insert the same chapter, "On the use of artificial intelligence tools," into nearly all Mexican procedural law—from administrative litigation and labor law to criminal, commercial, agricultural, and military law—as well as a reform to Article 17 of the Constitution. Collectively, they pursue a single standard: AI as an auxiliary tool, under human supervision and without replacing the judgment of those who decide or rule.

Sources

Record from the Observatorio IA México archive. Summary verified against official source.