New Jersey AI Law

Browse New Jersey law and bill articles, dated legislative records, and the historical tracker below. A date in an entry identifies the recorded event or source check; it does not imply that every measure has been rechecked today.

Enacted laws

• NJ A5165/S4390 — End Data Center Tax Credits Act — enacted August 27, 2026; ends $250 million in state tax-credit incentives earmarked for large artificial-intelligence data centers.
• NJ S3379/A4096 — Data-center energy and water reporting — enacted August 27, 2026; requires data-center owners and operators to submit semiannual reports to the Board of Public Utilities covering energy consumption, cooling and information-technology energy use, peak daily water use and water sources, and onsite and backup power supplies.
• NJ A3497, Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent (FAIR) Act — enacted July 20, 2026 as P.L. 2026, c. 43; prohibits rental-property owners from paying for algorithmic rent-setting coordination services and prohibits coordinators from facilitating express or tacit agreements among rental-property owners.

Proposed legislation

• A5729 — expedited AI-data-center permitting — October 29, 2026 proposal for centers with on-site natural-gas generation; rules would be due within twelve months after effect.
• A4732 — AI-companion disclosure — advanced by the Assembly Children, Families, and Food Security Committee September 17, 2026; would require notice that users are not speaking with a human.

AI data-center expedited-permitting proposal (A5729)

Gregory Myhre introduced A5729 on October 29, 2026. The official action report records introduction and committee referral that day. The bill remains a proposal.

Section 1 would require the Board of Public Utilities, Department of Community Affairs and Department of Environmental Protection to adopt expedited approval and permitting rules for AI data centers powered by on-site natural-gas electricity generation. Rules would be due within twelve months after the section’s effective date. The bill borrows the AI-data-center definition from P.L. 2024, c.49 and supplements that law.

The required rules would address state site approvals, model processes for local governments, construction-plan review, utility interconnection and environmental permits, including specified wetlands, coastal, Pinelands, Highlands, air, water and flood-hazard regimes. The text calls for expedited processes rather than stating that those underlying protections are repealed. Section 2 proposes immediate effect if enacted; it does not establish a currently operative fast track or guarantee approval of a particular project. See data-center topics.

• October 31 news: A5729’s October 29 expedited-permitting proposal.

October 19, 2026 legislative hearing

The Legislature’s October 19 calendar schedules an Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology Committee hearing on AI and society for October 19, 2026 at 1 p.m., in Committee Room 16, fourth floor, State House Annex, Trenton. Invited testimony concerns AI technology, deployment and societal concerns. A3065, A5089, A5090 and A5275 are listed for discussion only. The agenda is not a record of a vote or enactment.

In an October 21 release, New Jersey Assembly Democrats said the committee held the October 19 hearing, heard academic and business experts, and questioned Meta about its use of AI. The release describes discussion and plans for further hearings; it does not report a vote on the four discussion bills.

See October 26 news coverage of the four AI proposals.

Introduced texts listed for discussion

The following summaries concern the introduced versions, read in full on October 19; they do not establish an outcome of the scheduled hearing.

• A3065 — name, image, likeness and voice rights. The pre-filed introduced text proposes transferable and inheritable publicity rights and civil actions for specified unauthorized uses, including certain tools primarily designed to produce a person’s identity without consent. It provides injunctions, damages and other remedies, with fair-use and specified media protections. It also proposes a disorderly-person offense. The post-death right initially lasts ten years, with extension through commercial exploitation and termination provisions for non-use.

• A5089 — AI Image Disclosure Act. Introduced May 14, 2026, the bill proposes visible or audible disclosure and hidden provenance disclosure for covered AI-generated image, video and audio content. It addresses licensing safeguards, a 96-hour license-revocation requirement after actual knowledge of specified interference with latent disclosure, and provenance labeling by covered social-media companies with at least five million account holders worldwide. Specified violations carry $5,000 civil penalties, with Attorney General enforcement.

• A5090 — GAI Accountability Act. Introduced May 14, 2026, the bill proposes Attorney General enforcement and $20,000 penalties for specified failures by owners, operators or developers to prevent a publicly accessible generative-AI platform from engaging in enumerated harmful conduct or facilitating specified crimes. It includes an exception for substantially similar information publicly available outside a GAI platform and an affirmative defense based on reasonable prevention efforts.

• A5275 — frontier-developer risk disclosures. Introduced June 15, 2026, the bill proposes risk-reduction protocols, annual risk-management disclosures and new-model disclosures before or at deployment for covered large frontier developers with New Jersey users. Its definitions address frontier models trained using more than 10^26 operations and developers with affiliated annual gross revenue above $100 million. Disclosures would map actions to NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework; the bill provides publication with redactions, audits and $100,000 penalties for specified violations, with a good-faith protection for certain risk statements. It proposes commencement six months after enactment and a five-year expiration for sections 1–6.

October 19, 2026 committee and introduction records

The Legislature’s October 19 digest and Last Date of Action record list A759, A3058 and A3076 as reported from committee for second reading. A3058 was reported with Assembly committee amendments; the records identify it as a proposal for a Deepfake Technology Unit. A5423 was transferred to the Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee and reported for second reading. A5607, concerning chatbot content and data privacy, was reported and referred to Assembly Appropriations. These are committee actions, not enactments.

The same records list the October 19 introduction and referral to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology of A5643, described as an education AI proposal, and A5676, concerning an AI Workforce Impact Transition Fund. The introduced provisions of A5676 are summarized below.

See the October 21, 2026 news coverage.

A5643: school AI learning and curriculum proposal

A5643 was introduced on October 19, 2026 and referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology. Its introduced text would establish a Division of Artificial Intelligence Learning in the Department of Education, with responsibilities for research, grade-specific student and staff guidance, educator learning modules and monitoring the effects of AI on educational services and student groups.

Section 2 would prohibit school districts from incorporating student use of AI into any element of the curriculum for preschool through grade 10, while requiring foundational technology instruction. Districts would offer grades 11–12 AI curriculum covering its history, effects on cognitive development and applications in research, workplaces, higher education and daily life. Section 3 proposes immediate effectiveness upon enactment, with section 2 first applying in the next school year beginning after enactment. These provisions remain proposed.

A5676: AI-processing tax and worker-transition fund proposal

A5676, introduced October 19, 2026 by Assemblyman Anthony Verrelli and referred to Assembly Science, Innovation and Technology, proposes a tax on specified AI computer processing and an AI Workforce Impact Transition Fund. The following describes its introduced version, rather than an enacted tax.

The proposed tax is 10 percent of the value generated by covered processing, payable by the processor. For contracted processing, that value would be the number of tokens multiplied by the processor’s billing rate per token; controlled processors would use a Division of Taxation-approved calculation. Processing outside New Jersey would be apportioned according to the share attributable to AI system services used or intended for business uses in the state. Covered services concern development of AI systems that are commercially available or intended to be, and operation of commercially available systems, intended at least in part for New Jersey business uses. The definition excludes general-purpose software, standard database management systems and basic rule-based automation without learning or adaptive capabilities.

Processors would report and pay quarterly, and processors and covered AI businesses would retain and submit specified processing records. Revenues would support a non-lapsing fund in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development for workers whose employment is terminated, or whose jobs are expected to become obsolete within twelve months, because of AI. Spending would be subject to legislative appropriation and could support career training, grants, high-school student support and dual enrollment. The bill provides administrative spending limits, annual training evaluations and a report within six months after each fiscal year.

Section 6 proposes effectiveness on the January 1 following enactment, with anticipatory administrative action permitted. It does not establish an unconditional January 1, 2027 start date. See employment coverage and October 21 news coverage of the introduction.

A5711: AI-autonomy defense proposal

A5711 was introduced October 22, 2026 by Assemblyman Andrew Macurdy and referred to Assembly Judiciary. The action record identifies S4809 as its identical Senate bill. A5711 remains a proposal.

In civil actions against a defendant who developed, modified or used AI alleged to have harmed the plaintiff, the introduced text would bar a defense that the AI autonomously caused the harm. It expressly preserves other affirmative defenses, including evidence concerning causation, foreseeability and comparative fault. For prosecutions under New Jersey’s criminal code, Title 2C, it would likewise bar the AI-autonomy defense while preserving other defenses. This is a proposed restriction on a particular defense, rather than automatic liability for every AI-related harm.

Section 2 proposes immediate effectiveness upon enactment and application to crimes, offenses and civil causes of action that are not already barred by the applicable statute of limitations on that date. The bill incorporates an existing statutory AI definition. Its statement identifies California AB 316 as the model; California’s law is distinct from this pending New Jersey proposal. See October 24 news coverage and organizational governance coverage.

Deepfake Technology Unit (A3058, first reprint)

A3058’s first reprint was reported with amendments by Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness on October 19, 2026. It would direct the Attorney General, consulting the state Chief Technology Officer, to establish a Deepfake Technology Unit within the Division of Criminal Justice. The unit would assist law enforcement, prosecutors and state courts with evidence analysis, authentication, expert testimony and training, and collaborate with other agencies and private organisations.

Reports to the Governor and Legislature would begin one year after the unit’s formation. The Attorney General could issue implementing guidelines. The amendment deletes the introduced $2 million appropriation. The proposed commencement is six months after enactment, with advance administrative action permitted; the committee report is not enactment. See October 21 news coverage and deepfake topics.

Housing-photo advertising (A4728, third reprint)

Assembly Appropriations reported A4728 with amendments on October 22, 2026; the dated Last Date of Action record lists second reading. The third reprint remains proposed legislation.

The text would restrict fundamentally altered advertising photos of covered dwelling units and sites offered for sale, rent or lease. It requires photos reflecting their actual current state and no older than five years. Permitted editing under subsection 1(c), including adding or removing non-fixed furnishings, could not disguise flaws; the third reprint adds wording concerning affirmative marketing before construction is complete. Users of subsection 1(c) would disclose editing in each advertisement and supply original images on request.

Agents would face Real Estate Commission discipline; sellers would face a $500 first-offense civil penalty and up to $1,000 for subsequent offenses. The Commission would issue necessary regulations within one year after effectiveness. Commencement would be the first day of the second month after enactment, applying to photos of properties first listed after that date, with anticipatory agency action allowed. See transparency topics. See October 25 news coverage.

Historical tracker

May 1, 2026 tracker snapshot

These entries retain the historical NCSL snapshot used by the former state directory. Status labels, including “pending,” “enacted,” “failed,” and “vetoed,” describe that snapshot, not a current-status assessment. This is not a complete inventory of enacted law.

NCSL’s May 1, 2026 snapshot lists 62 AI-related 2026 measures for New Jersey.

Other measures recorded in the snapshot

• NJ A 1170 — Artificial Intelligence Data Centers; pending; Requires submission of energy usage plan to Board of Public Utilities for proposed artificial intelligence data centers, requires all electricity for ar.... Topics: Energy.
• NJ A 1323 — Boards of Education Artificial Intelligence Policies; pending; Requires boards of education and boards of trustees to adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities. Topics: Government Use.
• NJ A 1359 — Deepfake Pornography; pending; Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure. Topics: Child Pornography, Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ A 2069 — Artificial Intelligence Economic Growth Study; pending; Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to conduct study and issue report on impact of artificial intelligence on growth of state e.... Topics: Education Use, Effect on Labor/Employment, Studies.
• NJ A 2299 — Residential Dwelling Units Rent Price Setting; pending; Prohibits use and sale of algorithmic devices for setting rent price or occupancy of residential dwelling units. Topics: Housing, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 2312 — Child Exploitation or Abuse; pending; Creates separate crime for items depicting sexual exploitation or abuse of children, concerns computer generated or manipulated sexually explicit images. Topics: Child Pornography, Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ A 2478 — Artificial Intelligence Ethics Board; pending; Establishes Artificial Intelligence Ethics Board in Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Oversight/Governance, Studies.
• NJ A 2480 — State Based Start Up Businesses; pending; Establishes programs in Economic Development Authority to support the state based start up businesses, relates to small businesses, and medium sized bus.... Topics: Appropriations, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 2608 — Nonprofit Smart Technology Security Infrastructure; pending; Provides funding to nonprofit organizations to implement smart technology and artificial intelligence systems to enhance security infrastructure. Topics: Appropriations, Cybersecurity, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 2616 — State Generative Artificial Intelligence Program; pending; Requires Office of Information Technology to develop a state generative artificial intelligence program and implement artificial intelligence education.... Topics: Appropriations, Education Use.
• NJ A 2620 — Artificial Intelligence Initiatives Funding Task Force; pending; Establishes task force to research and report on potential sources of funding for artificial intelligence initiatives and appropriate tax incentives to.... Topics: Appropriations, Effect on Labor/Employment, Private Sector Use, Studies.
• NJ A 2710 — Artificial Intelligence Relationship Simulation; pending; Establishes Authentic Relationships Act, prohibits artificial intelligence relationship simulation. Topics: Health Use.
• NJ A 2736 — Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfake Threats; pending; Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure. Topics: Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ A 2951 — Child Pornography Law; pending; Revises child pornography law. Topics: Child Pornography, Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ A 3072 — Artificial Intelligence Grant Program; pending; Establishes Artificial Intelligence Grant Program in Office of Secretary of Higher Education. Topics: Appropriations, Education/Training.
• NJ A 3076 — Law Enforcement Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Requires Attorney General to study use of artificial intelligence for certain law enforcement purposes and issue report. Topics: Government Use, Studies.
• NJ A 3087 — Artificial Intelligence Flood Prediction and Mapping; pending; Directs the Department of Environmental Protection to establish artificial intelligence flood prediction and mapping tool. Topics: Energy, Government Use, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 3307 — News Media Industry Artificial Intelligence Regulations; pending; Regulates artificial intelligence in news media industry, establishes Artificial Intelligence In Communications Oversight Committee. Topics: Notification, Private Sector Use, Studies.
• NJ A 3326 — Residential Rental Units; pending; Makes use of algorithmic systems to influence price and supply of residential rental units unlawful. Topics: Housing, Private Sector Use, Responsible Use.
• NJ A 3585 — Deceptive Audio or Visual Election Media; pending; Concerns certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media and elections, prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentiona.... Topics: Deepfake, Elections.
• NJ A 390 — Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council; pending; Establishes the state Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council. Topics: Oversight/Governance, Responsible Use, Studies.
• NJ A 3989 — Residential Rent Price or Occupancy Algorithmic Use; pending; Restricts use and sale of algorithmic devices for establishing rent price or occupancy of residential property. Topics: Housing, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4163 — Deepfake Campaign Advertisements; pending; Provides civil penalties for campaign advertisements containing deepfake misrepresentations of candidates. Topics: Deepfake, Elections.
• NJ A 4352 — School Districts Artificial Intelligence Instruction; pending; Requires school districts to provide instruction on artificial intelligence, requires the Secretary of Higher Education to develop artificial intelligen.... Topics: Education Use.
• NJ A 4685 — Algorithmic Goods or Services Pricing; pending; Prohibits use and sale of algorithmic devices that set sale price of goods or services. Topics: Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4710 — Clean Energy AI Incentivization; pending; Regards the Clean Energy AI Incentivization Act, directs Board of Public Utilities to incentivize artificial intelligence centers to bring their own sel.... Topics: Energy.
• NJ A 4728 — Dwellings Photo Advertising Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Regulates deceptive use of artificial intelligence in photo advertising of certain dwellings. Topics: Deepfake, Housing, Notification, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4729 — Election Related Information Chatbots; pending; Requires disclosure to be made when generative artificial intelligence is used to operate chatbots that provide election related information. Topics: Deepfake, Elections, Health Use, Notification.
• NJ A 4730 — Communications Generative Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Requires person or entity to notify certain consumers when communicating with generative artificial intelligence to engage in trade or commerce. Topics: Notification, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4731 — Occupational Generative Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Directs professional and occupational boards to promulgate rules for licensee use of generative artificial intelligence. Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4732 — Artificial Intelligence Companion Use Notifications; pending; Requires artificial intelligence companion operators to provide notifications that users are not communicating with human. Topics: Health Use, Personhood.
• NJ A 4733 — Regulated Professions Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Prohibits advertising generative artificial intelligence as able to practice regulated profession or occupation. Topics: Criminal Use, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 4741 — Election Campaigns Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Restricts use of certain artificial intelligence generated communications in election campaigns. Topics: Deepfake, Elections.
• NJ A 4769 — Artificial Intelligence Data Centers; pending; Requires certain State agencies to establish expedited approval and permitting procedures for artificial intelligence data centers powered by small modu.... Topics: Energy.
• NJ A 4981 — Electronic Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Regulates use of artificial intelligence-based systems for electronic monitoring regarding employment and public services. Topics: Government Use, Private Sector Use.
• NJ A 770 — Intentionally Deceptive Media Disclosures; pending; Requires certain disclosures of intentionally deceptive audio or visual media. Topics: Deepfake, Notification.
• NJ A 799 — Artificial Intelligence Mental Health Advertising; pending; Prohibits advertising artificial intelligence system as licensed mental health professional. Topics: Health Use, Private Sector Use.
• NJ AR 101 — Generative Artificial Intelligence and Content Sharing; pending; Urges generative artificial intelligence and content sharing platforms to make voluntary commitments to prevent and remove harmful content. Topics: Deepfake, Responsible Use.
• NJ S 1159 — Deepfake Pornography; pending; Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure. Topics: Child Pornography, Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ S 1668 — Artificial Intelligence Innovation Partnership; pending; Establishes Artificial Intelligence Innovation Partnership, provides funding for certain nonprofit partnerships to promote certain emerging technology b.... Topics: Appropriations, Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 1802 — Artificial Intelligence Company Safety Tests; pending; Requires artificial intelligence companies to conduct safety tests and report results to Office of Information Technology. Topics: Oversight/Governance.
• NJ S 1840 — Responsible AI Advancement and Workforce Protection; pending; Creates the State Responsible AI Advancement and Workforce Protection Act. Topics: Appropriations, Education/Training, Impact Assessment, Effect on Labor/Employment, Responsible Use.
• NJ S 2129 — Deceptive Audio or Visual Media During Elections; pending; Prohibits the disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within a specified number of days of an election, imposes a criminal p.... Topics: Deepfake, Elections.
• NJ S 2130 — Deep Fake Technology Unit; pending; Establishes Deep Fake Technology Unit in Department of Law and Public Safety, appropriates a specified sum. Topics: Deepfake, Oversight/Governance, Studies.
• NJ S 2860 — Artificial Intelligence Apprenticeship Program; pending; Establishes the Artificial Intelligence Apprenticeship Program and Artificial Intelligence Apprenticeship Tax Credit Program. Topics: Education/Training.
• NJ S 2862 — School Districts Artificial Intelligence Instruction; pending; Requires school districts to provide instruction on artificial intelligence, requires the Secretary of Higher Education to develop artificial intelligen.... Topics: Education Use, Education/Training.
• NJ S 2942 — Artificial Intelligence Job Training; pending; Establishes public-private partnerships to develop artificial intelligence job training. Topics: Education/Training, Effect on Labor/Employment, Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 3263 — Use of Artificial Intelligence Enabled Video Interviews; pending; Regulates use of artificial intelligence enabled video interview in hiring process. Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Notification, Private Sector Use, Responsible Use.
• NJ S 329 — Fraudulent Impersonations or False Depictions; pending; Expands crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology. Topics: Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ S 3303 — Nonconsensual Pornographic Deepfakes; pending; Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure. Topics: Criminal Use, Deepfake.
• NJ S 3612 — Fair Price Protection Act; pending; Provides that it shall be considered an unlawful practice for a person to use personalized algorithmic pricing, surveillance pricing, or any pricing str.... Topics: Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 3639 — Artificial Intelligence Data Centers; pending; Requires Board of Public Utilities, Department of Community Affairs, and Department of Environmental Protection to establish expedited approval and perm.... Topics: Energy, Oversight/Governance.
• NJ S 3668 — Consumers Communications Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Requires notification of use of artificial intelligence system in certain communications with consumers. Topics: Notification, Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 3702 — Election Campaigns Artificial Intelligence Use; pending; Restricts use of certain artificial intelligence generated communications in election campaigns. Topics: Deepfake, Elections.
• NJ S 3732 — Groceries Algorithmic Pricing; pending; Prohibits certain businesses from using dynamic, surveillance, or personalized algorithmic pricing when selling groceries to consumers. Topics: Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 3883 — Education Artificial Intelligence Surveillance Systems; pending; Requires boards of education to adopt policy on use of surveillance systems with artificial intelligence capabilities. Topics: Education Use, Government Use.
• NJ S 4075 — Employment and Public Services Electronic Monitoring; pending; Regulates use of artificial intelligence based systems for electronic monitoring regarding employment and public services. Topics: Effect on Labor/Employment, Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 4088 — Generative Artificial Intelligence Advertising; pending; Prohibits advertising generative artificial intelligence as able to practice regulated profession or occupation. Topics: Deepfake, Private Sector Use.
• NJ S 680 — Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Energy Usage Plans; pending; Requires energy usage plans for proposed artificial intelligence data centers and cryptocurrency mining facilities, requires electricity for such center.... Topics: Energy.
• NJ S 735 — Artificial Intelligence Systems Health Advertising; pending; Prohibits advertising artificial intelligence system as licensed mental health professional. Topics: Health Use, Private Sector Use.
• NJ SR 52 — Artificial Intelligence Whistleblower Protections; pending; Urges generative artificial intelligence companies to make voluntary commitments regarding employee whistleblower protections. Topics: Private Sector Use, Responsible Use.