AI Regulation News and Legal Updates
Tracking enactments, effective dates, enforcement actions, court rulings, preemption activity, and guidance across US AI laws and federal frameworks. Each entry cites a primary source — statute text, court order, or agency notice.
- Last update
- 2026-10-06
- Last 30 days
- 16 events
- Last 90 days
- 24 events
Total tracked: 40 events · Sources verified against state legislature bill trackers, AG releases, and federal court dockets.
Last 30 days(16)
- Guidance
Colorado Attorney General Releases Interim Draft of ADMT and Chatbot Safety Rules Ahead of October 26 Hearing
On October 6, 2026 the Colorado Department of Law released an interim draft of its proposed Automated Decision-Making Technology and Conversational Artificial Intelligence Service rules, 4 CCR 904-6, with a cover page of…
- Effective
Maryland's AI and Deepfake Identity Fraud Law Takes Effect
Maryland Senate Bill 8, Chapter 445 of the 2026 session, approved by Governor Wes Moore on May 12, 2026, took effect October 1, 2026. It amends Criminal Law Section 8-301 to prohibit a person from knowingly, willfully, a…
- Amendment
California SB 1000 Removes the AI Transparency Act's 1,000,000-User Threshold, Effective Immediately
Senate Bill 1000 (Becker) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 861, Statutes of 2026. Because it passed both houses with an urgency clause, it took effect th…
- Amendment
California AB 2713 Rewrites Large-Platform Provenance Duties Before They Start in 2027
Assembly Bill 2713 (Wicks) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 856, Statutes of 2026. It amends Business and Professions Code Section 22757.3.1, the AI Tran…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 947, Barring Sole Reliance on AI to Discipline or Fire Employees From July 1, 2027
Senate Bill 947 (McNerney), which its author calls the No Robo Bosses Act of 2026, was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 859, Statutes of 2026. It adds Part 5…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 1979 on Clinical Decision Support AI and Health Care Chatbots
Assembly Bill 1979 (Bonta) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 854, Statutes of 2026. New Business and Professions Code Section 22758.5 requires a health fa…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 503, Requiring Bias-Risk Controls for Clinical Decision Support Systems
Senate Bill 503 (Weber Pierson) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 857, Statutes of 2026, adding Business and Professions Code Section 22758. Developers an…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 1883, Banning AI Workplace Surveillance That Reads Emotions or Collects Neural Data
Assembly Bill 1883 (Bryan) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 853, Statutes of 2026, adding a Labor Code part commencing with Section 1580. Section 1581 pr…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 1331, Limiting Workplace Surveillance Tools in Bathrooms
Assembly Bill 1331 (Elhawary) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 851, Statutes of 2026, adding a Labor Code part commencing with Section 1560. Unless direc…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 951, Adding AI Displacement Disclosures to Cal/WARN Layoff Notices
Senate Bill 951 (Reyes) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 860, Statutes of 2026. It amends the California WARN Act so that a 60-day notice of a mass layof…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 1111, Extending Likeness and Impersonation Law to Digital Replicas
Senate Bill 1111 (Ashby) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 862, Statutes of 2026. It amends Civil Code Section 3344 so that the right-of-publicity cause o…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 1159, Excluding AI Agents From Public-Participation Rights
Senate Bill 1159 (Cabaldon) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 863, Statutes of 2026. It provides that "person," "member of the public," and similar terms …
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 2392 on Generative AI Procurement Standards for Public Colleges
Assembly Bill 2392 (Fong) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 855, Statutes of 2026, adding Education Code Article 14 commencing with Section 66098. The Cal…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 574, Setting Generative AI Rules for Attorneys and Arbitrators
Senate Bill 574 was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2026 as Chapter 858, Statutes of 2026. New Business and Professions Code Section 6068.1 bars an attorney from delegating…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 1609, Requiring Large Businesses to Disclose Customer Service Chatbots and Offer a Human
Assembly Bill 1609 was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 28, 2026 as Chapter 733, Statutes of 2026, adding Business and Professions Code Chapter 22.6.1 (commencing with Section 2…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 2025, Requiring Disclosure of Digitally Altered Images in Rental Listings
Assembly Bill 2025 was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 27, 2026 as Chapter 572, Statutes of 2026. It adds Civil Code Section 1940.11 and amends Business and Professions Code Se…
31 – 90 days ago(8)
- Guidance
New York Names Its RAISE Act Regulator and Says Frontier Developers Will Register From November
On September 21, 2026 Governor Kathy Hochul announced next steps for the RAISE Act, General Business Law Article 44-B, which takes effect January 1, 2027. The release names the implementing office within the Department o…
- Amendment
California AB 502 Rewrites the Election Deepfake Rule With Immediate Effect
Assembly Bill 502 was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 19, 2026 as Chapter 333, Statutes of 2026, and took effect that day as an urgency statute. It amends Elections Code Sectio…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 1050, Requiring Advertising Disclosure for AI-Generated Synthetic Performers
Senate Bill 1050 (Ashby) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 16, 2026 as Chapter 246, Statutes of 2026. It adds Article 10 (commencing with Section 17610) to Chapter 1 of Part …
- Amendment
California Enacts SB 1119 (Adam's Law), Replacing SB 243's Minor Safeguards for Companion Chatbots
Senate Bill 1119 (Padilla) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 10, 2026 as Chapter 190, Statutes of 2026. It amends Business and Professions Code Section 22602, deleting the SB…
- Amendment
California Enacts SB 867, Banning Toys With Companion Chatbots Until 2031
Senate Bill 867 (Padilla) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 10, 2026 as Chapter 189, Statutes of 2026. It amends Business and Professions Code Section 22601 to define a toy a…
- Enactment
California Enacts AB 1405, Requiring AI Auditors to Register With the State From January 1, 2029
Assembly Bill 1405 (Bauer-Kahan) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 9, 2026 as Chapter 178, Statutes of 2026, adding Chapter 5.9.5 (commencing with Section 11549.80) to Part 1…
- Enactment
California Enacts SB 813, Creating a State Designation for Independent AI Verification Organizations
Senate Bill 813 (McNerney) was approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 9, 2026 as Chapter 179, Statutes of 2026. It adds Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 8898) to Division 1 of Titl…
- Effective
California AI Transparency Act Becomes Operative After a Seven-Month Delay
Business and Professions Code Chapter 25, the California AI Transparency Act, became operative on August 2, 2026 under Section 22757.6. The date is not the one SB 942 set: as enacted in 2024 the bill provided that "this …
Earlier this year and before(16)
- Guidance
Colorado Attorney General Closes ADMT Pre-Rulemaking Comment Period
The Colorado Attorney General's Office closed its pre-rulemaking comment period for the Automated Decision-Making Technology Act on July 13, 2026. Per coag.gov, the office collected informal public feedback through a com…
- Enactment
Illinois Enacts SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed Senate Bill 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, on July 6, 2026. Per the Office of the Governor, the Act reaches developers of the largest advanced AI systems and re…
- Guidance
Washington State AI Task Force Releases Final Report
The Washington Attorney General's Office released the third and final report required by ESSB 5838 on July 1, 2026. Across its preliminary, interim, and final reports, the Task Force advanced 11 policy recommendations. T…
- Delay
Illinois IDHR Temporarily Postpones AI Employment Notice Rulemaking
The Illinois Department of Human Rights announced on June 2, 2026 that the June 10 public hearing for proposed administrative rules implementing the Artificial Intelligence in Employment provisions of the Illinois Human …
- Amendment
Colorado Repeals and Reenacts Its AI Act as SB 26-189 (ADMT Framework)
On May 14, 2026, Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 26-189 (Chapter 131 of the 2026 Session Laws), which repeals and reenacts the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act as a narrower automated decision-making technolo…
- Court ruling
Federal Court Stays Enforcement of Colorado's AI Act
On April 27, 2026, Chief Judge Daniel D. Domenico of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado stayed enforcement of the Colorado AI Act in X. AI LLC v. Weiser, No. 1:26-cv-01515. xAI had filed suit on April 9…
- Effective
California AB 2013 and SB 53 Reach January 1, 2026 Compliance Date
On January 1, 2026, California AB 2013's first training-data documentation deadline and SB 53's frontier-AI transparency provisions became current compliance items. The California AI Transparency Act created by SB 942 di…
- Effective
Texas TRAIGA Takes Effect January 1, 2026
The enrolled text of House Bill 149 states that TRAIGA takes effect January 1, 2026. The Act creates Texas Business and Commerce Code Chapters 551 through 554, with Texas Attorney General enforcement, a notice-and-cure p…
- Effective
Illinois HB 3773 Effective — AI in Employment Now an IHRA Civil Rights Issue
Illinois HB 3773 took effect January 1, 2026. The amendment to the Illinois Human Rights Act treats AI-driven employment discrimination as a civil rights violation enforceable through the Illinois Department of Human Rig…
- Preemption
Executive Order Targets State AI Law Preemption
The White House issued an Executive Order titled "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence" on December 11, 2025. The order directs the Attorney General to establish an AI Litigation Task Force, d…
- Enactment
California Signs SB 53 — Frontier AI Transparency Act
Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, on September 29, 2025. SB 53 follows the prior frontier-AI bill SB 1047, which Newsom vetoed in 2024. The new law foc…
- Delay
Colorado Extends AI Act Requirements to June 30, 2026
Colorado SB25B-004, approved by the Governor on August 28, 2025 and effective November 25, 2025, extended the effective date of the requirements of Senate Bill 24-205 from February 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026. Status update…
- Enactment
Texas Enacts TRAIGA — Effective January 1, 2026
House Bill 149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA), was signed into law on June 22, 2025 by Governor Greg Abbott during the 89th Texas Legislature. TRAIGA imposes broad disclosure requi…
- Guidance
NIST Releases Generative AI Profile (NIST AI 600-1)
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released the Generative AI Profile of the AI Risk Management Framework on July 26, 2024. NIST AI 600-1 augments the core RMF with risks specific to generative AI — inclu…
- Enactment
Colorado Becomes First U.S. State With Comprehensive AI Act
Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 24-205 into law on May 17, 2024, making Colorado the first U.S. state to enact a comprehensive AI law regulating both developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems. The law was …
- Guidance
NYC DCWP Issues Final Rules for Local Law 144
The NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued final rules clarifying bias audit methodology for AEDTs covered by Local Law 144. Enforcement began July 5, 2023 after a delay from the original January 1, 2023…
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Common questions about US AI regulation updates
- What are the latest US AI regulation updates?
- Recent activity includes Colorado repealing and reenacting its AI Act as SB 26-189 (the ADMT framework, effective January 1, 2027), a federal court stay of enforcement of the prior Colorado AI Act, Illinois IDHR temporarily postponing proposed AI employment notice rules on June 2, 2026, Texas TRAIGA taking effect January 1, 2026, and California AB 2013 and SB 53 reaching their January 1, 2026 compliance dates. Each entry on this page cites the primary source — statute text, court order, or agency notice — and links to a dedicated explainer.
- How current is this AI regulation news feed?
- Entries are sourced from state legislature bill trackers, attorney general press releases, federal court dockets, and agency publications. Dates shown are the official event date (enactment, signing, effective date, or ruling date), not the date the entry was added. Quarterly retrospectives verify primary-source URLs and update entries when laws are amended or stayed.
- Which US states have enacted AI-specific laws?
- As of mid-2026, AI-specific laws and rules have been enacted in Colorado (SB 26-189 ADMT framework), Texas (TRAIGA), Illinois (HB 3773 amending the Illinois Human Rights Act), Utah (SB 149 AI Policy Act and SB 226 generative AI rules), California (SB 942 AI-generated content transparency, AB 2013 training-data transparency, SB 53 frontier model safety), Connecticut (SB 2), and New York City (Local Law 144 hiring bias audits). Florida, Virginia, and Washington have introduced AI bills with varying status.
- Is the federal government preempting state AI laws?
- A December 2025 federal executive order asserts preemption authority over certain state AI rules. Active litigation challenges that order. Until courts resolve the question, state AI laws remain on the books, but enforceability of specific provisions varies. The /news/federal-state-preemption-eo-dec-2025 entry tracks the litigation calendar with primary-source citations.
Last verified: 2026-10-06. Event dates above are the official date of the enactment, signing, court order, or agency notice and are independent of when the entry was added to this feed.