Legislation News Archive

This archive preserves dated legislation coverage collected through September 7, 2026. Entries describe events on their stated dates; use the jurisdiction directories for law and bill articles. See the full news archive for subsequent coverage.

Legislation Sections

• United States Federal Authorities — Federal statutes, executive orders, OMB and government-wide policy, agency rules and guidance, and pending federal legislation specifically targeting AI.
  • September 3, 2026 — Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act announced — Forthcoming proposal to ban artificial superintelligence, pause advanced-AI development pending federal safety rules, create a Cabinet-level regulator, and pursue international restrictions.
  • September 3, 2026 — Stop Rogue AI Act unveiled — Proposal directing NIST to develop secure AI-agent deployment standards covering action verification, evaluations, tamper-resistant logs, and agent inventories.
  • September 1, 2026 — Doctors Not AI Act introduced — H.R. 10210 would reserve medical-necessity denials for licensed health professionals, permit AI only in a supporting role, and require disclosure when AI assists claims review.
  • August 24, 2026 — AI Advertising Disclosure Act introduced — H.R. 10146 would require covered AI chatbots and generative-search tools to disclose sponsored influence and would authorize FTC, state, and private enforcement.
  • August 5, 2026 — Children's Artificial Intelligence Toy Safety Act advances — Senate Commerce Committee advanced a bipartisan bill requiring a federal plan and National Academies study on AI-enabled toys and child safety.
  • July 24, 2026 — Protecting Patients from Automated Denials Act introduced — Bipartisan proposal requiring physician review and attestation for AI-assisted Medicare Advantage denials and authorizing HHS audits.
  • July 23, 2026 — FRONTIER Act introduced — Bipartisan proposal for tiered transparency, risk-management, independent-audit, incident-reporting, and assessment duties for frontier-AI developers.
  • July 23, 2026 — AI Kill Switch Act introduced — Bipartisan House proposal requiring covered powerful-AI developers to maintain shutdown controls and establishing emergency federal intervention authority.
  • July 9, 2026 — AI political committees and federal preemption debate — AI-industry election spending and congressional federal-preemption debate.
• United States State Legislation — State AI legislation and state-level developments, including California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and other state initiatives.
  • August 31, 2026 — California AB 1709 passes — Enrolled September 4. Would restrict addictive features for under-16 users, with an exception allowing accounts without those features.
  • August 31, 2026 — California SB 574 receives final legislative approval — Would establish generative-AI safeguards for attorneys and arbitrators; ordered enrolled and sent to the governor.
  • August 31, 2026 — California SB 947 receives final legislative approval — Would bar employers from relying solely on automated decision systems for discipline, termination, or deactivation and require human corroboration when such systems are primarily relied upon.
  • August 31, 2026 — California SB 1119 receives final legislative approval — Would impose child-safety risk assessments, safeguards, audits, privacy limits, and enforcement duties on companion-chatbot operators.
  • August 31, 2026 — California SB 867 receives final legislative approval — Would temporarily prohibit toys containing companion chatbots through January 1, 2031.
  • August 30, 2026 — California AB 1883 receives final legislative approval — Would restrict AI workplace-surveillance tools that infer emotional states or collect neural data.
  • August 27, 2026 — New Jersey enacts S3379/A4096 data-center reporting law — Requires data-center owners and operators to report energy and water use twice yearly to the Board of Public Utilities.
  • August 27, 2026 — New Jersey ends A5165/S4390 AI data-center tax credits — Ends $250 million in state tax-credit incentives earmarked for large artificial-intelligence data centers.
  • August 27, 2026 — California enacts SB 928 human-instructor requirement — Requires CSU instructors of record and faculty employees to be people meeting applicable trustee rules while preserving employees’ ability to use AI tools.
  • August 26, 2026 — California AB 2392 receives final legislative approval — Requires a joint public-higher-education working group to recommend generative-AI procurement standards and training before covered systems are provided to students, faculty, or staff.
  • August 25, 2026 — California AB 2025, AB 2656, and SB 503 receive final legislative approval — The enrolled measures cover digitally altered real-estate images, notice before public-sector generative-AI deployment, and bias-risk safeguards for medical clinical decision-support systems.
  • August 20, 2026 — California SB 1159 receives final legislative approval — Senate concurred in Assembly amendments 37–0 and ordered the measure enrolled; it would exclude AI systems and other nonhuman entities from specified public-participation terms.
  • August 17, 2026 — California AB 1883 advances — Senate ordered the bill to third reading; it would restrict AI workplace-surveillance tools that infer workers' emotional state or collect neural data.
  • August 13, 2026 — California SB 813 advances; AB 412 held — Assembly appropriators advanced the AI Standards and Safety Commission proposal 11–3, while Senate appropriators held the copyright-training-data disclosure measure under submission.
  • August 10, 2026 — California AB 1651 presented to governor — Requires the State Bar to disclose AI-generated content used in developing or administering bar examinations and in State Bar study materials.
  • August 3, 2026 — Texas data-center audit directive — Governor Abbott ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every queued data-center interconnection request before a project may move forward.
  • August 2, 2026 — California AI Transparency Act becomes operative — Covered generative-AI providers must offer detection tools and provenance disclosures; civil enforcement begins.
  • July 30, 2026 — New York S10671 introduced — Proposal requiring school districts and charter schools to prohibit AI-enabled humanoid robots from performing teacher responsibilities.
  • July 29, 2026 — Massachusetts H.4616 advances — House committee recommended passage of AI safeguards for health-insurance prior-authorization review and referred the bill to House Ways and Means.
  • July 21, 2026 — Iowa adopts judicial-AI rules — Effective January 1, 2027.
  • July 20, 2026 — New Jersey FAIR Act — Enacted as P.L. 2026, c. 43; bars rental-property owners from using algorithmic rent-setting coordination services.
  • July 17, 2026 state AI legislation update — Hawaii and Illinois enacted AI bills; Massachusetts and Pennsylvania measures remained active.
  • July 10, 2026 state AI legislation update — California crossover bills, Massachusetts privacy negotiations, Missouri AI therapy-chatbot restrictions, and New Jersey AI/privacy bills.
  • July 3, 2026 state AI legislation update — California AB 2148 human-teacher requirement enacted; New Jersey Kids Code Act cleared both chambers.
  • June 10, 2026 — New York synthetic-performer advertising labels — New York's AI-advertising disclosure law took effect, requiring labels for AI-generated people used in ads.
  • Illinois SB 315 Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act — Signed July 6, 2026; requires covered frontier-model developers to maintain risk-management frameworks, transparency reports, critical-incident reporting, whistleblower protections, and independent third-party safety audits. See: July 6 update.
  • May 27, 2026 — Connecticut SB 4 signed — Public Act 26-64. Includes pricing disclosures and qualified surveillance-pricing limits effective October 1.
  • May 22, 2026 — Tennessee AI regulation study enacted — Public Chapter 1082 requires a TACIR study; the original CHAT restrictions were replaced.
  • May 22, 2026 state AI legislation roundup — Minnesota, South Carolina, Missouri, Vermont, California, and Arizona AI legislative developments.
  • May 15, 2026 state AI legislation roundup — Connecticut SB 5, Georgia AI enactments, Hawaii AI bills, Colorado AI bills, and California suspense-file activity.
  • Florida SB 484 data-center cost-allocation law — Signed May 7, 2026; directs tariffs for large-load data-center customers to prevent cost shifting to general ratepayers.
  • May 9 state AI legislation roundup — Connecticut SB 5, Iowa SF 2417, Colorado chatbot/therapy/pricing bills, and Maryland/other state AI-law developments.
• International Legislation — International AI regulatory developments, including the European Union, United Kingdom, and Asia-Pacific.
  • September 7, 2026 — Canadian IRB AI notice takes effect — Applies to all divisions.
  • September 3, 2026 — Pacific AI principles endorsed — Regional policy principles.
  • August 24, 2026 — New Zealand online-safety bill introduced — Proposal requiring age assurance for covered social-media and AI companion services, restricting under-16 access, and requiring child-safety risk assessments for users under 18.
  • August 7, 2026 — Philippines HB 10362 National AI Governance Act proposal — Proposed national AI framework covering worker transitions, privacy, transparency, and high-impact AI deployment.
  • August 2, 2026 — EU AI Act enforcement and transparency phase — The AI Office and national authorities begin enforcement; Article 50 disclosure and synthetic-content labelling duties take effect.
  • July 27, 2026 — EU Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force — Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 delays key high-risk-system deadlines, preserves near-term transparency duties, and adds prohibitions on nudifier and CSAM-generating systems.
  • China anthropomorphic AI interaction rules — July 6, 2026; ByteDance Doubao and Alibaba Qwen disable custom or humanlike AI-agent features ahead of July 15 rules.
  • European Commission model-access talks with OpenAI and Anthropic — May 11, 2026; EU Commission discussions over access to leading general-purpose AI models as EU AI Act supervision moves toward implementation.

Illinois

• June 1, 2026 — Illinois sends five AI bills to Gov. Pritzker — adjournment update covering SB 315 frontier-model safety audits, ticket-bot restrictions, rental price-fixing, teacher evaluations, and health-care AI approvals.

Additional enacted-law updates

• Colorado SB26-189 — signed May 14; revised consequential-decision framework.
• Connecticut SB417 — AI small-business planning act approved June 2.
• Connecticut SB483 — digital-defrauding offense approved June 4.