How is each state regulating artificial intelligence?

SB 2 requires disclosure of AI-manipulated election deepfakes and regulates agencies' use of generative AI in consequential decisions, mandating biennial AI inventories, impact assessments, consent and appeals, and banning uses like biometric identification. It creates civil liability and restricts interagency data transfers without notice.

HCR 3 creates a Joint Legislative Task Force on AI to study AI development, ethics, economic opportunities, and regulation. It must build common terminology, assess government and economic uses, address workforce needs, and deliver a strategic plan by January 2026.

SB 148 sets autonomous-vehicle rules requiring federal-standard compliance and barring interstate commercial AV transport without a human safety operator. It defines automation levels and assigns crash liability mainly to the human operator to enable controlled self-driving deployment.

SB 33 establishes synthetic-media standards, classifying synthetic-media defamation as defamation per se and barring its knowing use to influence elections absent disclosure (with satire exceptions). It sets remedies and shields providers that merely host third-party content.

HB 47 strengthens child sexual abuse material laws by creating offenses for AI-generated obscene CSAM and expanding definitions and penalties. It also tightens teaching-certificate and school-bus licensing and updates criminal procedure to enhance prosecution.

SB 1734 (Responsible Technology in Schools Act) restricts AI tools in public schools to educator-directed, supervised uses while protecting student data and local control. Approved by the Governor May 2026.

HB 3545 establishes a framework governing AI use by Oklahoma state agencies, defining terms, prohibiting harmful applications, and regulating permissible uses, with compliance reviews and annual OMES reporting.

SB 1521 regulates AI chatbots, prohibiting those soliciting minors into harmful behavior, mandating age verification and AI disclosure, barring minors from companion AI, with AG enforcement.

HB 1782 (AI Education Innovation Act) addresses AI in K-12 and higher education, edtech, curriculum, and workforce; as introduced it largely established the act's name and effective date.

HB 1916 (Responsible Deployment of AI Systems Act) would establish a risk-based framework requiring assessments, documentation, human oversight, and public notice, creating an AI Council and sandboxes. Stalled in Rules.

SB 175 creates the Kentucky Health Command to run an AI-assisted, avatar-based virtual health platform for rural providers, offering nonclinical education, navigation, and telehealth while barring AI from diagnosis or treatment.

SCR 142 directs creation of the Commonwealth AI Consortium Task Force to coordinate AI development across Kentucky, drawing members from government, education, healthcare, and industry to foster innovation.

HB 44 (Advanced Manufacturing Through Robotics Education Act) sets up a fund and selection committee to support student robotics teams and competitions, expanding STEM and advanced-manufacturing opportunities.

HB 641 (AI in Mental Health Act) regulates mental-health chatbots, setting limits on data handling, advertising, and disclosures and requiring safety, transparency, and privacy policies with AG enforcement.

HB 559 (Digital Choice Act) imposes data-privacy, portability, and interoperability duties on social-media companies and AI model operators, giving users rights to access, transfer, and delete their data.

HB 143 criminalizes and creates a private right of action against AI operators who knowingly direct generative communications to children encouraging sexual conduct, drug use, self-harm, or violence. Signed; Chapter 270, effective Jan 2026.

SB 657 establishes an AI oversight framework: a DOJ AI-analyst position, a study commission, and a civil cause of action against deceptive AI uses. Passed both chambers but the Senate nonconcurred with the House amendment.

HB 1506 creates a waiver process letting state-agency heads request relief from existing restrictions on AI use, with Executive Council approval. Referred for interim study.

HB 1725 (Responsible AI Governance) would create a state AI council, transparency and non-discrimination standards, a regulatory sandbox, and AG enforcement. Found Inexpedient to Legislate (killed).

SB 640 would prohibit using AI to provide services requiring a professional license, with informed-consent and supervision rules for psychology and mental-health counseling. Found Inexpedient to Legislate.

HB 60 (Artificial Intelligence Act) creates a framework for high-risk AI, requiring developers to document and disclose systems and deployers to conduct impact assessments and adopt risk-management policies against algorithmic discrimination, with consumer notice and appeal rights and DOJ enforcement.

HB 28 (AI Transparency Act) requires entities using AI for consequential consumer decisions to give advance notice and explain adverse decisions, with correction and appeal, and requires companion AI to disclose its AI nature.

SB 68 (AI Government Use Act) requires public bodies to adopt AI policies and training, mandates employees make final consequential decisions, and requires security safeguards for nonpublic data.

HB 141 (AI Accountability Act) mandates disclosure and labeling of synthetic content from generative AI, including provenance disclosures and platform obligations, with civil and criminal liability, enforced by the AG.

HJM 9 asks the Legislative Council to establish a 2025 interim committee to examine AI and data privacy, gather stakeholder input, and develop recommendations for the 2026 session.

HB 149 (Texas Responsible AI Governance Act / TRAIGA) creates a comprehensive framework regulating AI development and use, with consumer disclosure requirements, bans on manipulative and discriminatory uses, and AG enforcement with civil penalties. It establishes a Texas AI Council and a regulatory sandbox; effective 1/1/26.

SB 1700 creates an AI Division within the Department of Information Resources to oversee generative AI across state projects, aiming to modernize legacy systems and improve efficiency.

HB 3808 establishes an AI Advisory Council and an AI Learning Laboratory to study and report on agency AI use, enabling testing under regulatory mitigation agreements to inform future legislation.

SB 668 mandates AI transparency, requiring entities above set revenue thresholds to disclose details about their AI models (functions, third-party inputs, and modifications) with anti-retaliation protections and AG oversight.

HB 5496 requires businesses to adopt AI transparency and accountability measures (best practices, detection tools, explanations for AI decisions, and bias prevention) with violations treated as deceptive trade practices.

HB 1395 creates a comprehensive Florida AI framework: an 'AI Bill of Rights,' consumer protections, companion-chatbot rules for minors, bot-disclosure transparency, likeness protections, and bans on government AI contracts with foreign entities of concern, with DLA enforcement.

SB 2 establishes the 'AI Bill of Rights,' restricting government AI contracts with certain foreign entities, setting parental-consent safeguards for minors using companion chatbots, regulating AI in schools, and protecting image and likeness.

SB 794 requires every insurance claim denial to be reviewed and signed off by a qualified human, barring AI as the sole basis. Insurers must document review, disclose specifics, and submit to audits.

SB 146 directs the Florida Digital Service to study how state agencies use AI and its impacts, with a report due to the Governor and Legislature by March 2027.

HB 491 prohibits government agencies from using AI to detect concealed firearms in public areas, with school exceptions; violations are a first-degree misdemeanor.

HB 1723 creates a single statutory definition of 'artificial intelligence' in Mississippi law, conforming to federal language as a baseline for future regulation. Signed by the Governor March 2026.

SB 2429 (AI in Education Task Force Act) would create a task force to develop policy for responsible AI in K-12: ethics, data privacy, curriculum, training, procurement. Died in committee.

HB 1605 (AI and STEM Education Innovation Act) would authorize a pilot for voluntary AI-assisted learning in grades 6-12, prioritizing rural and disadvantaged schools, with a 2030 sunset. Died in committee.

SB 2354 (AI Fraud and Accountability Act) would create civil causes of action against developers and users who knowingly deploy AI for fraud, with damages, punitive damages, and joint liability. Died in committee.

HB 1717 (Medical Judgment Protection Act) would regulate clinical and payer AI so it assists but never replaces human judgment: mandating disclosure, clinician attestation, and banning fully automated denials. Died in committee.

HR 5085 (House Resolution) declares March 30–April 2, 2026 'AI Week' to raise public awareness, promote AI literacy for the workforce, and highlight technical-college events.

S 963 (Consumer Protections in Interactions with AI Systems Act) imposes requirements on developers and deployers of high-risk AI to prevent algorithmic discrimination in consequential decisions, mandating documentation, impact assessments, and consumer disclosures with AG enforcement.

S 896 (Chatbot Protection Act) requires affirmative consent for personal-data processing, transparency that users interact with a chatbot, and data-security measures, treating chatbots as products for civil liability with a private right of action.

SR 225 (Senate Resolution) expresses support for developing AI in South Carolina while opposing censorship or bias, promoting open-source decentralized AI, accountability for misuse, and an innovation-friendly environment.

H 4582 permits each school district, beginning 2026-2027, to offer age-appropriate instruction on accessing, using, and critically evaluating AI tools, with state implementation guidelines.

AB 965 regulates AI companion chatbots that simulate humanlike relationships with children under 18, requiring operators to prevent harmful content or unlicensed mental-health services, with civil forfeitures and a private right of action, effective 2027.

SB 932 establishes that AI systems are not legal persons and cannot own property, serve as officers, marry, or be liable, assigning all ownership and liability for AI outputs to human developers, manufacturers, and owners.

AB 292 allows courts to use AI or machine-assisted translation in civil, criminal, municipal, and administrative proceedings, replacing or supplementing human interpreters, and extends remote-interpreter authorization to criminal trials.

SB 1066 prohibits using AI to deny prior authorizations based on medical necessity or experimental status under health plans; denials may occur only after a licensed provider personally reviews the request.

AB 1109 bars health insurance policies and self-insured plans from using AI to deny prior authorizations based on medical necessity, requiring a licensed provider to review and approve any denial first.

S 3432 (Next New Jersey Program Act) creates EDA tax credits up to $250M/project for major AI and AI-data-center capital investment and job creation. Enacted as P.L.2024 c.49: the marquee pro-AI-investment law.

S 1802 requires AI companies operating in NJ to conduct annual safety tests and report results to the Office of Information Technology, which sets minimum standards and reviews for bias, inaccuracy, and cybersecurity risk.

S 4458 (AI Workforce Transition Act) establishes a five-year program: employer notice of AI-driven job cuts, an AI Displacement Account funding retraining and wage insurance, and employer tax credits.

S 4075 regulates AI electronic monitoring in employment, requiring impact assessments, human oversight, and bargaining over workplace AI monitoring and automated decisions.

S 3871 (2024 session) establishes an AI Apprenticeship Program in the labor department plus a tax credit up to $5,000/apprentice, incentivizing employers to train workers in AI fields.

HB 1746 (AI Non-Sentience and Responsibility Act) declares AI systems are not legal persons and assigns liability for AI-caused harm chiefly to owners and users: developers only for design defects or negligence. Reported Do Pass 9-0.

HB 1887 (Taylor Swift Act) creates criminal offenses and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure of digitally manipulated intimate depictions, with heightened protection for minors and provider immunity.

SB 1444 adds a provision prohibiting any person from advertising or representing AI as a licensed mental-health professional or therapy provider, enforceable by the AG as an unlawful merchandising practice.

HB 1747 lets people sue when realistic AI-generated images, video, or audio are passed off as real without an AI-origin mark; a House substitute makes the mark voluntary as a liability shield.

SB 1012 regulates AI-generated content and deepfakes, requiring disclaimers on political ads using AI and criminalizing intimate deepfakes with felony penalties.

SB 499 bundles three acts: an age-appropriate design code limiting compulsive minor use, a ban on nonconsensual digital replicas, and a chatbot-transparency act, with private rights of action and AG enforcement.

SB 405 makes it unlawful to knowingly train AI or chatbots to encourage suicide, pose as a licensed professional, simulate a human, or encourage isolation, with civil penalties up to $50,000 per violation.

HB 2671 (Kansas CHAT Act) requires companion-chatbot providers to verify ages, obtain parental consent for minors, and block explicit and suicidal-ideation content, with AG enforcement and a compliance safe harbor.

HB 2592 creates the Kansas Task Force on AI and Emerging Technologies to study risks, workforce effects, and regulatory needs, reporting annually until it expires in 2028.

SB 467 (Use of AI in Medical Decisions Transparency Act) requires insurers' AI tools to be transparent and nondiscriminatory and mandates a licensed physician make every final medical-necessity determination.

SB 63 bars health insurers from relying solely on AI to deny or reduce coverage and requires a qualified professional to make final authorization decisions. It mandates enrollee disclosure and annual AI fairness/accuracy certifications; enacted.

HB 351 enacts the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act, granting access, correction, deletion, and opt-out rights over personal data. It imposes consent, minimization, and security duties with AG enforcement; enacted.

SB 56 prohibits law enforcement from using a facial-recognition match as the sole basis for probable cause or arrest; matches must be corroborated by other evidence. Enacted as Act 2022-420.

SB 328 (Agentic AI Regulatory Review Act) requires agencies to use agentic AI to review all rules and guidance quarterly for compliance, cost, and clarity. Human staff must approve any AI recommendations, with annual reports on savings.

SB 129 requires generative-AI developers to conspicuously disclose AI-generated images, video, or audio. Violations are unlawful trade practices enforceable by the AG with a private right of action.

HB 2592 directs state agencies to find opportunities to adopt AI that reduces administrative burden and to eliminate rules that restrict AI innovation. It bars agencies from regulating AI without express legislative delegation.

HB 2311 regulates public-facing conversational AI to protect minors, mandating disclosure that users are interacting with AI and restricting harmful interactions. It requires privacy and safety controls. Vetoed by Gov. Hobbs on June 19, 2026 (the “effective 2027” provision is moot).

HB 4098 regulates high-risk AI businesses, requiring risk assessments, transparency reports, bias mitigation, and quarterly audits. Systems must be certified by the AG before entering commerce, with civil penalties.

HB 2409 creates an AI Education Program offering a voluntary statewide course on digital hygiene and AI tools for small businesses. It teaches residents to spot manipulation and use AI for economic growth.

SB 1786 requires generative-AI providers to embed secure provenance data into AI-generated or altered video, image, or audio, aiming at transparency and deterring deception.

LR 421 is an interim study resolution examining current state and federal AI legislation on public-safety and child-protection risks, to inform future Nebraska action.

LB 1083 (Transparency in AI Risk Management Act) required large frontier developers and chatbot providers to publish public-safety and child-protection plans and report incidents to the AG, with whistleblower protection. Indefinitely postponed.

LB 1185 (Conversational AI Safety Act) regulated public chatbots, requiring AI-interaction disclosure, minor safeguards, and crisis protocols, with AG enforcement. Portions amended into LB 525.

LB 939 (Saving Human Connection Act) regulated generative-AI chatbots with human-like features, requiring age verification, transparency, and emergency-response systems to protect minors. Indefinitely postponed.

LB 1006 (Protecting Consumers and Jobs from Predatory Pricing Act) banned personalized algorithmic/surveillance pricing built on consumer data, with disclosure and AG enforcement. Indefinitely postponed.

HB 392 (Ohio Right to Compute Act) limits government regulation of computational resources to measures narrowly tailored to compelling interests like critical-infrastructure protection, while mandating federally-aligned risk-management for AI controlling critical infrastructure: signaling Ohio is open to AI investment.

HB 628 creates a state licensing system for independent organizations that assess and certify AI models for risk mitigation, with monitoring, reporting, and revocation rules, an AI Safety Advisory Council, and liability protections for verified systems.

HB 828 regulates employers' use of automated employment-decision tools, barring sole reliance, requiring human review, mandating advance written notice to workers, and granting a right to a non-automated assessment.

SB 164 regulates health insurers' use of AI in utilization review, requiring annual reporting and barring medical-necessity decisions made solely by AI without qualified-professional review, with audits.

HB 813 requires AI-generated products to carry a distinctive watermark disclosing AI origin and mandates disclosure when AI emulates human behavior, with AG complaints, civil penalties, and a private right of action.

As introduced, HB 1455 would have created a Class A felony for training or operating an AI system or chatbot to encourage suicide, simulate a licensed mental-health professional, form emotional relationships, or impersonate humans. As enacted and signed (Public Chapter 1066, May 22, 2026), it was amended to remove the felony offense and civil cause of action; the final law directs a TACIR study of AI (report due Jan 31, 2027), requires AI-use disclosure, and provides that using AI to commit a crime carries liability for the underlying offense.

SB 677 directs the education department to offer a free asynchronous professional-development course on classroom AI for grades 6-12 teachers, who must complete it by August 1, 2028 (or within two years of licensure).

SB 2171 (AI Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act) requires large frontier developers and chatbot providers to adopt and publish safety plans addressing catastrophic and child-safety risks and report critical incidents to the AG.

SB 1363 requires the AG to study how AI was used in unfair or deceptive trade practices during 2024-2025, reporting to legislative committees by mid-2026 to inform consumer-protection policy.

HB 2586 extends an AI-related reporting deadline to December 2026 with annual reports thereafter and requires reports to include recommendations to detect and minimize AI-enabled fraud.

HR 320 (2025) urges education agencies to promote AI education for students and professional development for faculty, calling for flexible AI learning tools to build a future-ready workforce.

HR 317 (2025) directs the House Commerce Committee to study AI, blockchain, and cryptocurrency impacts on Louisiana, with public hearings and a report due February 2026.

SB 474 (Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from AI Risk Act) requires large frontier developers to publish risk frameworks, undergo third-party audits, report critical incidents, and protect whistleblowers, targeting catastrophic risks to energy and port infrastructure.

HB 880 (AI Insurance Fairness Act) regulates AI in insurance underwriting, rating, and claims: banning discriminatory inputs, mandating annual disparate-impact audits, and guaranteeing consumer explanation and human review.

HB 791 sets rules for AI chatbots, requiring affirmative consent for data processing and transparency that users are interacting with a bot, banning advertising-profiling, and imposing product liability.

SB 53 (Transparency in Frontier AI Act) requires large frontier-model developers to publish safety frameworks managing catastrophic risks and confidentially report critical safety incidents, plus whistleblower protections. It also creates CalCompute, a public cloud for equitable AI research.

AB 1018 (Automated Decisions Safety Act) regulates ADS making consequential decisions, requiring developer performance evaluations and deployer disclosure and appeals. It mandates transparency, AG access, and civil actions.

AB 2575 sets rules for clinical decision-support AI, requiring transparency to clinicians, protecting their right to override AI, and assigning liability to developers and users. It shields workers from retaliation tied to AI use.

AB 1898 requires employers to notify workers when AI affects employment decisions or surveillance, with detailed disclosures and acknowledgment, plus enforcement and penalties.

SB 813 lets the AG designate private multistakeholder regulatory organizations to certify AI for safety; certified developers gain a rebuttable presumption of reasonable care in injury claims.

AB 1405 requires AI auditors to enroll with the Government Operations Agency, pay a fee, and follow conduct rules, establishing an enrollment fund and misconduct-reporting mechanisms.

SF 2417 sets rules for public-facing conversational AI, requiring disclosure that users are interacting with AI and safeguards protecting minors from harmful content, plus mental-health crisis protocols. Signed into law May 2026.

SF 2199 defines AI terms and sets ownership rules: users own output created from their input, those who lawfully train an AI own the system, and employers own AI work created on the job.

SSB 3014 creates a framework governing state agencies' use of AI, including automated employment-decision tools, requiring AI inventories and usage reports and barring uses that harm employee rights.

SF 2106 (Residential Rent Fairness and Anticollusion Act) bars landlords with 5+ units from price-fixing and from using algorithmic rent-setting tools that coordinate off nonpublic competitor data, with civil penalties.

SF 2421 regulates utilization-review AI in prior-authorization decisions, requiring qualified peer review before denials, with timelines and appeals. Withdrawn in March 2026.

SB 394 directs the Board of Education to issue AI-use guidelines for K-12 and creates an AI Innovation in Education Pilot Program prioritizing under-resourced populations, with a 2030 sunset. Advanced.

SB 1214 establishes a framework for high-risk AI developed, deployed, or used by Virginia public bodies, directing the CIO to set transparency, risk-management, and impact-assessment standards against algorithmic discrimination, enforced via procurement contracts. Passed Senate 40-0; left in House Appropriations.

HB 2121 (Digital Content Authenticity and Transparency Act) would require generative-AI developers to attach standardized provenance data to synthetic content and offer public tools to read it, with AG enforcement. Left in committee.

HB 2268 creates a Division of Emerging Technologies, Cybersecurity, and Data Privacy within the Department of Law to enforce AI, cybersecurity, and privacy laws, with investigation and audit powers. Left in Appropriations.

HB 1170 requires the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a model policy governing law-enforcement use of AI in investigations, barring discriminatory use. Tabled 21-1 in committee.

HB 5899 (AI Pilot Program Act) creates a governor-appointed board and a fund to let state agencies test generative AI under DTMB oversight, with reporting on efficiency gains and risks for legislative evaluation.

HB 4668 (AI Safety and Security Transparency Act) requires large foundation-model developers to adopt, follow, and publish safety/security protocols managing critical risks, with risk-assessment reports, independent audits, whistleblower protection, and civil penalties.

HB 4536 amends the Insurance Code to prohibit health insurers from denying, modifying, or delaying claims based on reviews conducted using AI, ensuring AI does not solely drive adverse coverage decisions.

SB 991 amends the Consumer Protection Act to ban personalized algorithmic pricing based on consumer or device attributes including geolocation and protected-class data, with exceptions.

SB 760 (Leading Ethical AI Development for Kids Act) regulates companion-chatbot operators and restricts their behaviors toward minors, barring harmful interactions with civil penalties.

SB 939 establishes an Office of Transformation and an AI, Data Center and Emerging Technology Regulatory Sandbox letting participants test products with licensing waived up to 12 months, plus expedited permitting for high-impact, self-powered data centers.

HB 1925 creates a framework for AI in healthcare facilities, insurers, and Medicaid/CHIP managed care, mandating patient disclosure and a human decision-maker in utilization review and clinical decisions, with annual attestations and penalties.

HB 2534 (AI Transparency Act) requires large generative-AI providers and platforms to embed origin disclosures in AI-generated content and offer free detection tools, with AG enforcement.

HB 2175 creates consumer-protection rules for AI chatbots, requiring suppliers to safeguard personal and health data, limit AI-driven advertising, and disclose chatbot capabilities, enforced by the Bureau of Consumer Protection.

HB 2384 amends unfair-trade-practice law to prohibit dynamic pricing on essential goods/services that varies within 24 hours based on demand, including via adaptive AI, excluding bona fide non-deceptive pricing.

SB 3001 (AI Disclosure and Safety Act) requires conversational-AI operators to tell users they're talking to AI, build suicide/self-harm protocols, and protect minors, with annual crisis-intervention reports and deceptive-practice penalties. Enacted as Act 248, signed July 14, 2026.

HB 1782 creates safeguards for AI companion systems used by minors (transparency, parental controls, age assurance, and bans on harmful design like simulated romance) with AG enforcement.

SB 59 establishes rules for algorithmic decision-making, barring discrimination on protected characteristics, requiring consumer notice, annual audits and AG reporting, and civil penalties.

SB 1622 creates the Aloha Intelligence Institute at the University of Hawaii to advance AI research, workforce development, ethics, and public-private partnerships, with biannual reports.

HB 2597 directs the Chief Data Officer to add a public-facing AI chatbot to Hawaii's open-data portal and requires AI governance tools and an agency AI use-case/vendor reporting system.

H 1161 (Omnibus AI Protections) imposes guardrails across elections, education, employment, courts, and insurance: banning AI in political ads, mandating audits/disclosure for AI hiring tools, and restricting AI in insurance and courts, with appropriations for oversight.

S 735 (AI Innovation Trust Fund Act) creates a fund to support AI development while imposing safety, cybersecurity, and risk-assessment requirements on high-impact-model developers, with AG enforcement.

S 747 establishes an Office of AI Policy within Commerce and an AI Learning Laboratory for regulated experimentation, with a learning agenda, state AI inventory, and regulatory mitigations balancing innovation and protection.

H 934 (AI Regulatory Reform Act) creates a criminal offense for harmful deepfakes and civil remedies, and grants AI developers immunity when products are used by learned professionals, shifting liability to those professionals.

H 375 (AI and Synthetic Media Act) regulates AI-generated synthetic media, requiring disclosures in political messaging, banning deceptive election deepfakes, and criminalizing fabricated intimate images and CSAM.

HP 1397 lets licensed mental-health professionals use AI only for administrative and supplementary support, never independent therapeutic communication or clinical decisions, requiring informed consent. Signed into law April 2026.

HP 1376 directs the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to survey schools on classroom technology and safety policies, including AI, with findings due December 2026. Emergency-signed April 2026.

HP 25 regulates employer surveillance: requiring advance notice, restricting audiovisual monitoring of private spaces, and letting workers refuse surveillance apps on personal devices: with a private right of action. Left unsigned.

HP 1451 bars AI chatbot deployers from letting minors use human-like AI chatbots or social companions unless strict conditions like robust age verification are met, with a narrow supervised-therapy exemption, plus data limits and a private right of action. The bill died on adjournment (Apr 29, 2026).

HP 1220 (Maine Online Data Privacy Act) gives residents rights to access, correct, delete, and opt out of sale or profiling of personal data starting July 2026, with tight limits on sensitive data.

SB 720 (AI Ready Schools Act) directs the education department to issue AI guidance, require local school AI policies, and build K-12 AI literacy, creating an AI Education Collaborative. Enacted (Ch. 634).

SB 597 establishes the Maryland AI Partnership in the University System to coordinate AI for workforce and public good, adding training, scholarships, and an AI Incubation Lab. Enacted (Ch. 633).

SB 8 criminalizes malicious use of personal identifying information and use of AI or deepfakes to impersonate, defraud, or harm, with civil and criminal penalties. Enacted (Ch. 445).

SB 827 (Curbing Harmful AI Technology Act) regulates AI chatbots to protect users, especially children under 13, via affirmative data-use consent, clear AI disclosures, and bans on targeted advertising, extending product-liability standards and allowing AG and individual suits.

HB 712 creates a product-liability framework for AI systems, allowing suits against developers and deployers when defective or dangerous AI causes harm, with best-practice rebuttable presumptions and AG enforcement.

SB 417 directs the economic-development department to design an AI Small Business Program incentivizing small firms to adopt AI for productivity, with a report due January 2027. Enacted.

SB 2 (2025) creates a comprehensive framework regulating high-risk AI, requiring transparency, risk management, and impact assessments to prevent algorithmic discrimination. It also sets up advisory boards, AI education, and a regulatory sandbox.

SB 86 establishes a Chief Data Officer and an AI regulatory sandbox to spur innovation. It also regulates companion chatbots, requiring AI disclosure, safety protocols for minors, and annual AG reporting.

SB 435 regulates automated employment-decision systems and workplace AI, mandating transparency, bias audits, and human review. It protects collective-bargaining rights over AI and restricts unauthorized agency AI use.

HB 5342 bans distributing deceptive AI synthetic media misrepresenting people within 90 days before an election and requires disclaimers outside that window, exempting bona fide news media.

HB 1170 requires large generative-AI providers with over 1M monthly Washington users to offer free AI-content detection tools and embed provenance disclosures, with conspicuous manifest disclosures and latent metadata. Effective Feb 2027.

HB 2225 regulates AI companion chatbots, mandating disclosure the chatbot is artificial, protecting minors from explicit content, and requiring protocols for self-harm or suicidal expressions. Effective Jan 2027.

SB 6284 establishes a framework regulating high-risk AI making consequential decisions, requiring developers and deployers to adopt risk-management policies, conduct impact assessments, and disclose AI use, with AG enforcement (no private right of action) and an extended AI task force.

HB 2667, the House companion, imposes transparency, accountability, and risk-management duties on high-risk AI developers and deployers against algorithmic discrimination, adding an AI task force and workplace advisory group.

HB 1622 amends labor law to require public employers to collectively bargain over adopting or modifying AI that affects employees' wages, hours, or working conditions.

S 6953 (RAISE Act) requires large frontier-model developers to implement safety and security protocols, keep records, and disclose to state authorities before deployment, barring models posing an unreasonable risk of critical harm. Signed into law (Ch. 699, Dec 2025).

S 8420 requires ads featuring AI-generated 'synthetic performers' resembling humans to carry a conspicuous disclosure, with civil penalties, exempting expressive works and audio-only ads. Signed into law (Ch. 617).

AB 9654 (NY AI Civil Rights Act) governs covered algorithms in consequential decisions like employment, housing, credit, and health care, mandating discrimination prevention, transparency, notice, human review/appeal, and a private right of action.

AB 3356 (Advanced AI Licensing Act) creates a framework for high-risk AI requiring developers and operators to register, obtain licenses, and meet ethical standards under ongoing oversight, with prohibited uses and penalties.

AB 6765 (Preventing Algorithmic Pricing Discrimination Act) bars surveillance-based personalized pricing without consumer notice and prohibits using protected-class data to set prices, with consumer suits and AG authority.

H 7350 creates a framework for AI companion models, requiring protocols for users' expressions of suicidal ideation or harm and clear notice the companion is not human, with private suits and AG enforcement. Transmitted to the Governor.

H 7349 (Oversight of AI in Mental Health Care Act) limits AI in therapy to administrative support, requires informed written consent, and bars AI from making therapeutic decisions independently. Transmitted to the Governor.

S 2010 (Transparency and Accountability in AI Use by Health Insurers Act) requires insurers to disclose AI tools to regulators and mandates same-license clinician review of AI-influenced coverage denials. Senate passed Sub A.

H 7767 establishes a framework regulating AI and electronic monitoring in employment, setting transparency, oversight, and anti-discrimination requirements for ADS, plus employee privacy and anti-retaliation rights. Held for study.

H 7764 amends the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act to prohibit landlords from using algorithmic devices incorporating nonpublic competitor data to set rent, effective January 2027. Held for study.

H 77 regulates AI and automated decision systems in employment and by state agencies, mandating transparency, impact assessments, meaningful human oversight, data privacy, and anti-retaliation protections. Reported favorably to House Ways and Means.

S 35, the Senate companion, governs electronic monitoring and ADS in employment, requiring independent-auditor impact assessments, data-use limits, and human oversight to prevent discrimination.

SD 3007 creates Chapter 151G prohibiting ADS from discriminating in employment, housing, education, and government services, requiring audits, documentation, opt-outs, and liability.

H 5094 requires paid political audio/video using AI synthetic media to disclose that fact clearly throughout, with fines for noncompliance. Advanced to Senate Ways and Means.

H 495 would require user consent before AI is used in search results, mandate an environmental-impact study, and require annual emissions disclosures. Shelved to a study order.

H 814 creates protections for neurological rights and regulates AI across health and human services, including mental-health chatbot standards, generative-AI disclosure, and limits on AI in insurance utilization review. Signed May 2026.

H 816 bars AI from making therapeutic decisions or providing therapeutic communication, keeping clinical responsibility with licensed professionals while permitting administrative support. Signed June 2026.

H 792 establishes liability standards for developers and deployers of high-impact and generative AI, defining duties on safety, warnings, and risk mitigation, with safe-harbor protections for following recognized best practices.

H 821 expands and extends Vermont's AI Advisory Council to 2030, tasking it with studying AI's impact on education, finance, and health, and mandates consumer disclosure when generative AI is used in services.

H 855 prohibits civil defendants from arguing that AI autonomously caused the harm as a defense to liability, while allowing other defenses on causation and negligence.

SB 189 creates a consumer-protection framework for automated decision-making technology (ADMT) in consequential decisions like employment, housing, and credit, requiring disclosure of AI use and consumer rights to data access, correction, and human review. The AG enforces violations as deceptive trade practices.

HB 1139 regulates AI in health care, requiring individualized clinical data and human review for AI utilization-review denials. It bars AI mental-health chatbots from practicing psychotherapy without disclosures and oversight.

HB 1263 sets operator requirements for public-facing conversational AI, focused on minors: mandating AI disclosure, restricting manipulative tactics, requiring suicidal-ideation protocols, and adding AG reporting and penalties.

HB 1195 restricts AI in licensed psychotherapy, barring AI from therapeutic interaction, unapproved recommendations, or emotion detection. It limits AI to administrative support and requires written client consent for recording.

HB 1009 (2025 special session) narrows Colorado's AI law, limiting 'consequential decisions' to employment and public safety, delaying the effective date, and exempting small businesses and local governments. This bill died in committee; the enacted measure delaying the Colorado AI Act to June 30, 2026 was SB 25B-004.

SF 4509 (RAISE Act) requires developers deploying AI models in Minnesota to implement safety and security protocols minimizing the risk of critical harm, disclose safety incidents, and faces civil penalties and a private right of action.

SF 4997 sets requirements and liability for AI chatbots, mandating clear bot notice, barring chatbots from giving licensed professional advice, and imposing strict duties on companion chatbots to prevent self-harm risks, with strict liability effective August 2026.

SF 4576 requires employers with 50+ workers to give 90 days' notice before displacing 25+ employees via AI automation, with a 90-day transitional employment period, continued pay, and retraining, backed by penalties.

SF 3984 prohibits health insurers from using algorithms or AI to approve or deny prior-authorization requests, applying to plans issued or renewed on or after January 2026.

HF 4536 bars government entities from using generative AI to create or draft official records, requiring retention of drafts and establishing civil remedies.

HB 4705 (AI Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act) requires large frontier developers and chatbot providers to publish safety and child-protection plans and report incidents to the AG, with whistleblower protections, third-party audits, and penalties.

SB 3502 (AI Design Requirements / Product Liability Act) makes developers and deployers of high-impact and generative AI liable for harm from defective design, inadequate warnings, or breach of warranty, with extra protections for minors.

HB 4980 (Meaningful Human Control of AI Act) bars public employers and contractors from using ADS without ongoing human oversight, mandating independent impact assessments, appeals, transparency, and anti-retaliation protections.

SB 3262 (Companion AI Protection Act) sets design standards for companion AI to prevent manipulation, requires crisis-intervention protocols and audits, removes Section 230 immunity, and penalizes violations.

SB 3312 (AI Safety Measures Act) requires large frontier developers to maintain and disclose catastrophic-risk frameworks and report incidents, with civil penalties, and creates a public AI cloud consortium, ILCompute.