Legislation

This page tracks AI-related federal authorities, state legislation, and international regulatory developments. The legislation materials are split into separate pages:

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.
  • 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 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 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 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.
  • 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.