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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.