California AI Laws
Regulatory agency: California Attorney General — contact
- California AI Transparency ActIn effectSB 942 (2024); amended by AB 853 (2025)Effective August 2, 2026Max penalty $5K
- California Generative AI: Training Data TransparencyIn effectAB 2013 (2024)Effective January 1, 2026
- Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA)In effectSB 53 (2025)Effective January 1, 2026Max penalty $1.0M
Priority implementation pages
- California AI Transparency Act for healthcare
Industry-specific implementation route for healthcare teams tracking California AI law.
Build a compliance program
California AI obligations rarely operate in isolation. These cross-jurisdiction guides map state requirements onto a single compliance program.
- US state AI laws: all 13 tracked (2026 overview)
Side-by-side comparison of every tracked state AI law — scope, effective dates, and penalties in one place.
- Federal vs state AI law: preemption and how they interact
How the December 2025 federal executive order and state statutes overlap, and where preemption is still contested.
- AI compliance framework: the regulatory control map
Translate statutory obligations into a reusable control set that spans multiple state AI laws and NIST AI RMF.