US AI
Legislation
2026

First comprehensive state AI law in the US. Required developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems to use reasonable care to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination. Superseded by SB 26-189 which repeals and replaces this act with a narrower framework.

Repeals and reenacts the original Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205) with a narrower Automated Decision-Making Technology framework. Signed by Governor Polis on May 14, 2026. Effective January 1, 2027. Drops the duty of care, risk management programs, and impact assessments in favor of developer documentation duties and consumer notice and human-review rights.

Special-session bill signed by Governor Polis on August 28, 2025. Delayed the original Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205) compliance date from February 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026, creating room for the 2026 rewrite that became SB 26-189.

Signed by Governor Abbott on June 22, 2025, in force since January 1, 2026. Prohibits the intentional development or deployment of AI to incite harm, facilitate crime, unlawfully discriminate against a protected class, produce CSAM, or infringe constitutional rights. Liability turns on intent, not disparate impact. Government use carries the heaviest obligations.

Signed June 20, 2025. Governs the use of AI in creating medical records, requires provider review of AI-generated records per Texas Medical Board standards, and requires covered entities to store electronic health records within the United States.

Signed June 20, 2025. Directs the Department of Information Resources to maintain an inventory of AI systems used by state agencies and to create an AI code of ethics for state and local government.

Signed June 20, 2025. Criminalizes knowingly producing or distributing nonconsensual AI-generated intimate imagery, with felony treatment where a minor is depicted.

Signed March 13, 2024, effective May 1, 2024. Created the first state-level Office of AI Policy and a regulatory sandbox, and set consumer disclosure duties for generative AI, with a stricter proactive standard for regulated professions.

Enacted 2025, effective May 7, 2025. Narrowed the general disclosure duty to trigger on request, kept a proactive duty for high-risk interactions, and added a safe harbor for clear up-front AI disclosure.

Signed March 25, 2025, effective May 7, 2025. Regulates AI mental health chatbots with disclosure duties, a prohibition on selling user health inputs, advertising limits, and a filed-policy affirmative defense.

Signed March 27, 2025. Expanded personal identity to include AI-cloned voice and audiovisual likeness and barred unauthorized use implying endorsement, with First Amendment carveouts.

Signed March 24, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. Creates the Digital Content Provenance Standards Act and the Digital Voyeurism Prevention Act, requiring provenance data and barring nonconsensual synthetic intimate imagery.

Signed March 18, 2024, effective immediately. Creates a 19-member AI task force convened by the Attorney General to study high-risk AI uses and recommend legislation, with a final report due July 1, 2026.

Signed March 24, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. Requires operators of companion chatbots to clearly disclose that the chatbot is artificial, with a private right of action. Excludes customer-service, gaming, general-assistant, and narrow educational bots.

Signed 2024 (Chapter 88), effective June 6, 2024. Creates the crime of disclosing fabricated intimate images and a civil cause of action for nonconsensual disclosure, covering adults and minors.

Signed April 16, 2025, effective July 27, 2025. Criminalizes intentional use of a forged digital likeness (synthetic audio, video, or images) to defraud, harass, threaten, or intimidate.

Enacted 2026 (Chapter 223), effective June 11, 2026. Expands child sexual abuse material law to include AI-generated depictions of minors, including non-identifiable minors, and extends the statute of limitations to ten years.

Signed by Governor Lee on March 21, 2024, effective July 1, 2024. The first state law to add an individual's voice as a protected property right and to reach the makers of AI cloning tools, not only end users.

Signed April 24, 2025, effective July 1, 2025. Criminalizes possessing, distributing, or producing technology designed to create AI or synthetic child sexual abuse material.

Enacted 2025, effective July 1, 2025. Creates civil and criminal liability for nonconsensual disclosure of AI-generated or altered intimate depictions of an identifiable person.

Signed April 1, 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Bars developers and deployers from representing that an AI system is or can act as a qualified mental health professional, enforced under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.

Enacted in the 2026 session, effective July 1, 2026. Requires a disclaimer on political ads containing deepfake depictions of a candidate, with a Class C misdemeanor for violations.

Passed March 5, 2026 and signed by Governor Kotek on April 1, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. Regulates consumer-facing AI companions with disclosure, self-harm protocols, and minor protections, backed by a private right of action.

Enacted 2024 (Chapter 62), effective on passage in March 2024. Requires disclosure of synthetic media in campaign communications, with civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation.

Enacted 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Expands the definition of an intimate image to include realistic AI-generated or digitally manipulated depictions, with criminal and civil liability.

Enacted 2024. Created a 14-member task force to identify AI terms and definitions for future legislation; final report delivered December 11, 2024.

Signed August 9, 2024, effective January 1, 2026. Makes it a civil rights violation to use AI in employment decisions in a way that has a discriminatory effect, including unintentional disparate impact, and bars using zip code as a proxy for a protected class.

Enacted August 4, 2025, effective August 1, 2025. Bars AI from making independent therapeutic decisions or engaging clients in therapy without licensed-professional review, limiting AI to administrative and supplementary tasks.

Signed August 2, 2024, effective immediately. Clarifies that repeated collection of the same person's biometric data is a single violation and that electronic signatures satisfy BIPA written consent.

Signed May 9, 2024. Requires state agencies to inventory high-risk AI, run impact assessments, and follow Department of Information Technology policies overseen by the Governor's AI Subcabinet. First inventory obligations began December 1, 2024.

Signed May 9, 2024, effective October 1, 2025 with penalty enforcement from April 1, 2026. Grants profiling opt-out and human-review rights, requires data protection assessments, and is among the strictest US state privacy laws on data minimization.

Signed April 22, 2025, effective July 1, 2025, sunsets June 30, 2029. Establishes a workgroup to study AI regulation focused on decisions affecting livelihoods, with a report due July 1, 2026.

Signed May 21, 2024 with an emergency clause, effective immediately. Creates a civil right of action for digital impersonation, letting candidates and residents sue over undisclosed AI-generated depictions, with a two-day judicial declaration process.

Signed May 12, 2025, effective September 26, 2025. Updates definitions of minor and visual depiction to include computer-generated images indistinguishable from a real minor, matching penalties for real-victim imagery.

Signed in 2025, effective July 1, 2026. Bars health insurers from using AI as the sole decision-maker to deny a claim or prior authorization involving medical judgment, requiring individual human review before denial.

Signed by Governor Newsom on September 29, 2025. The first enacted US law addressing catastrophic risk from the largest AI models, built on transparency and accountability rather than licensing. Applies to frontier developers training models above 10^26 FLOPs, with heightened duties for large developers above $500 million in revenue.

Signed September 2024 and amended by AB 853. Requires large generative AI providers to offer a free AI-detection tool and to embed provenance disclosures in AI-generated content. Operative date delayed by AB 853 to August 2, 2026.

Signed October 13, 2025. Delays the SB 942 operative date to August 2, 2026 and extends provenance obligations to large online platforms, generative AI hosting platforms, and capture device manufacturers, with platform duties starting January 1, 2027.

Signed September 2024, effective January 1, 2026. Requires developers to publish a high-level summary of the datasets used to train any generative AI system made available to Californians.

Signed October 13, 2025, effective January 1, 2026. The first US law regulating companion chatbot platforms, with disclosure, minor-safety, and self-harm protocol duties, plus a private right of action.

Signed September 2024, effective January 1, 2025. Requires health facilities using generative AI for clinical patient communications to disclose AI use and explain how to reach a human provider.

Signed September 17, 2024, effective January 1, 2025. Prohibits creating or distributing a digital replica of a deceased personality's voice or likeness in expressive works without estate consent.

Civil Rights Council regulations effective October 1, 2025. Clarify employer liability under FEHA where an automated-decision system causes discrimination, including disparate impact, in employment decisions.

Signed by Governor Lamont on May 27, 2026 after Senator Maroney's two prior attempts failed. A broad online-safety and AI law covering employment decision tools, AI companions, frontier models, and provenance. Most provisions effective October 1, 2026, with companion and employment duties phasing into 2027.

Signed June 7, 2023. Requires the Department of Administrative Services to inventory state-agency AI systems and requires impact assessments before agencies deploy AI.

2026 companion measure addressing nonconsensual AI-generated intimate imagery, with Attorney General enforcement and a private right of action for Connecticut residents.

Signed by Governor Hochul on December 19, 2025, with chapter amendments finalized in early 2026. Imposes safety and transparency duties on large developers of frontier models trained above 10^26 operations, with an oversight office inside the Department of Financial Services. Effective January 1, 2027.

Enacted as part of the FY2026 budget, signed May 9, 2025, effective November 5, 2025. Requires AI companion operators to detect and respond to expressions of self-harm and to remind users they are talking to AI.

Signed December 11, 2025, effective June 9, 2026. Requires advertisers to conspicuously disclose the presence of an AI-generated synthetic performer in commercial advertising.

New York City law in effect since January 1, 2023, with enforcement from July 5, 2023. Requires annual independent bias audits and candidate notice for automated employment decision tools used in NYC hiring and promotion. A December 2025 State Comptroller audit found enforcement ineffective.

Signed April 2, 2025, effective immediately. Creates a third-degree crime for producing or disseminating malicious deepfakes used to commit underlying offenses, and a private civil right of action for victims.

Attorney General and Division on Civil Rights guidance issued January 9, 2025. Confirms the Law Against Discrimination reaches discrimination from automated decision tools across employment, housing, credit, and public accommodations, including without intent.

Signed October 10, 2023. Established the New Jersey AI Task Force, which delivered its report in November 2024, and directed executive-branch AI-use policies.

Signed January 18, 2024. Directs binding AI policy and IT standards for executive-branch agencies, AI education guidelines, and law-enforcement AI standards. Governs the state, not private companies.

In effect since January 1, 2023. Grants a right to opt out of profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects and requires data protection assessments for heightened-risk processing.

Signed April 16, 2025, effective on passage (Chapter 150). The first state law declaring a fundamental right to own and use computational resources, subject to strict scrutiny, with a narrow risk-management duty for critical AI controlling critical infrastructure.

Enacted 2025. Bars distributing a candidate deepfake within 60 days of voting unless it discloses substantial AI alteration, with escalating civil and criminal penalties. Facing a First Amendment challenge.

Signed May 13, 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Creates transferable property rights in name, voice, and likeness and bars unauthorized AI replicas, modeled on Tennessee's ELVIS Act.

Enacted 2025. SB 413 (MCA 45-5-640) criminalizes disclosing explicit deepfakes of identifiable non-consenting persons; HB 514 extends nonconsensual intimate image crimes to AI-fabricated images.

Signed April 7, 2025, effective July 1, 2025 (MCA 45-5-625). Expands the sexual-abuse-of-children offense to expressly cover computer-generated and AI-fabricated CSAM.

Signed July 12, 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Bars state agencies from using AI to manipulate, surveil, or discriminate against the public, prohibits real-time biometric surveillance with a narrow missing-persons exception, and requires human review of irreversible AI decisions.

Signed July 19, 2024, effective January 1, 2025. The first state law giving deepfake victims a private damages suit for knowing use of their likeness in a fraudulent or harmful deepfake.

Signed August 2, 2024, effective August 1, 2024. Requires disclosure of deceptive AI in political advertising within 90 days of an election, with a damages action for targeted candidates.

Signed August 1, 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Bars AI chatbots from facilitating harmful acts to children and requires companion-chatbot operators to publish a self-harm prevention protocol, with a private right of action.

Signed March 24, 2025, effective immediately under an emergency clause. Requires the Commonwealth Office of Technology to set AI policy standards, creates an AI Governance Committee, and establishes a civil cause of action for synthetic media in electioneering communications.

Enacted 2024. Adds AI-generated and computer-generated child sexual abuse material to Kentucky felony sex-crime statutes and bans child sex dolls. Under constitutional challenge in 2026, defended by the Attorney General.

Signed June 5, 2025, effective July 1, 2025. Bars AI from providing or being represented as professional mental or behavioral health care, bars providers from using AI to deliver care directly, and prohibits schools from using AI to perform counselor functions.

Enacted 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Requires clear disclosure of AI-manipulated content in paid election communications, with an injunction remedy for depicted candidates.

Signed June 5, 2025. Expands Nevada's nonconsensual intimate imagery felony to cover AI-generated and digitally manipulated images that could be mistaken for a real depiction.

Enacted 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Created the Indiana AI Task Force and a government AI inventory requiring agencies to report AI used or considered, coordinated through the Office of Technology.

Enacted March 2024. Requires a disclaimer on fabricated media in election campaign communications and creates a private civil action against sponsors of non-disclaimed political deepfakes.

Enacted 2025. Expands the definition of intimate image to include AI-generated or altered images without consent, with misdemeanor to felony penalties.

Enacted March 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Bars insurers from using AI as the sole basis to downcode a claim without professional review and requires disclosure of AI in adverse prior-authorization determinations.

Enacted 2025, first implementation July 1, 2025. Directs the Department of Education to create AI guidelines and an inventory, requires schools to adopt AI policies, and bars penalizing students solely on AI detection evidence.

Enacted as Chapter 2024-126, effective July 1, 2024. Requires a generative-AI disclaimer on deceptive political ads that depict real people doing things that did not occur, with criminal liability for omission.

Signed June 11, 2025, effective October 1, 2025. Requires platforms to provide a reporting process for nonconsensual altered sexual depictions and to remove confirmed material within 48 hours.

Enacted as Chapter 2024-1, effective January 1, 2025. Restricts social media accounts for minors under 14 and requires parental consent for 14- and 15-year-olds. Subject to ongoing First Amendment litigation.

Became Act 927 on April 21, 2025, effective August 3, 2025. Declares that the person who lawfully supplies prompts owns the generated content and the person who supplies lawful training data owns the trained model, with an employer carve-out.

Became Act 848 on April 17, 2025, effective August 3, 2025. Requires every Arkansas public entity to adopt a published AI use policy and keep a human as the final decision-maker over any AI recommendation.

Became Act 977 on April 22, 2025. Criminalizes computer-generated visual media indistinguishable from a real child in sexually explicit conduct, with exemptions for law enforcement and AI safety testing.

Became Act 827 in April 2025, effective August 3, 2025. Creates the criminal offense of distributing deepfake visual material of a sexual nature, with criminal and civil penalties.

Signed May 2026, effective July 1, 2027. Iowa's first law regulating AI products directly. Requires conversational AI to disclose AI to minors, avoid appearing human, provide parental controls under 13, and route crisis prompts to resources.

Enacted 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Amends the sexual exploitation statute to cover visual depictions created or altered, including by AI, to appear that an identifiable minor is engaged in a prohibited act.

Signed March 28, 2023, effective January 1, 2025. A business-favorable privacy law granting access, deletion, and sale opt-out rights but notably no profiling opt-out or right to correct.

Signed September 11, 2023, effective January 1, 2025. Grants a right to opt out of profiling in solely automated significant decisions and requires data protection assessments, with a low 35,000-consumer applicability threshold.

Signed July 17, 2024. Establishes the Delaware AI Commission to advise on state-government AI use and inventory generative AI across agencies, with annual reporting. Internal governance, not private-sector regulation.

Signed October 9, 2024. Creates civil and criminal remedies for wrongful disclosure of AI-generated deepfakes depicting people nude or in sexual conduct, with felony exposure where a minor is depicted.

Signed October 9, 2024. Makes distributing deceptive election deepfakes within 90 days of an election a misdemeanor, with a safe harbor for clearly disclosed synthetic content.

Signed April 18, 2024, effective October 1, 2024. Promoted as first-in-the-nation in treating AI-generated CSAM identically to real CSAM, removing any need to prove a real child was involved, with a civil cause of action.

Signed May 16, 2024, effective October 1, 2024. Criminalizes distributing AI-generated materially deceptive media of a candidate within 90 days of an election, with a disclaimer safe harbor and a parody carve-out.

EO 738 (February 2024) created the Governor's Generative AI Task Force, whose March 2025 report led to Act 2025-369 establishing the Technology Quality Assurance Board and expanding state cybersecurity oversight.

Enacted 2021 and in force. Makes it a crime to create, disclose, or threaten to disclose AI-generated or computer-edited sexually explicit images of an identifiable person without consent and with intent to harm.

Signed May 2025, effective November 1, 2025. Expands Oklahoma's nonconsensual intimate image statute to cover AI-generated sexual depictions disseminated without consent and with intent to harm.

Signed May 11, 2026, effective July 2026. Requires large-load users such as AI data centers and crypto operations to cover their proportional electricity and infrastructure costs rather than shifting them to general ratepayers.

Enacted within a 2026 health care omnibus, effective August 28, 2026. Prohibits advertising or offering an AI chatbot as providing therapy or a mental health diagnosis, or as a licensed professional, enforced by the Attorney General.

Signed January 13, 2026. Directs the Office of Administration to develop an AI integration framework for state government and a review of Missouri's AI business environment, with recommendations due November 30, 2026.

Signed April 25, 2025. Criminalizes AI-generated child sexual abuse material indistinguishable from or morphed from a real child, and extends breach of privacy to cover nonconsensual sexual deepfakes of identifiable adults.

Signed April 8, 2025. Bans DeepSeek and other AI platforms controlled by a foreign country of concern on state devices and networks, and restricts foreign-adversary genetic-analysis software.

Signed June 12, 2025 (Title 10, Section 1500-DD). Bars using an AI chatbot in trade and commerce in a way that misleads a reasonable consumer into believing they are interacting with a human, enforced under the Unfair Trade Practices Act.

Signed June 2025. Brings AI-generated synthetic intimate images within Maine's nonconsensual intimate image crime and allows them to support protection orders.

Approved April 13, 2026. Prohibits AI from independently providing therapy or making therapeutic decisions without licensed-human oversight, with human accountability for AI-assisted mental health services.

Enacted 2022, effective July 1, 2022. Creates the Division of Artificial Intelligence within the Agency of Digital Services, requires a state automated-decision-system inventory, a code of ethics, and annual reporting.

Signed March 5, 2026. Requires campaign media using AI synthetic content within 90 days of an election to carry a clear and conspicuous disclosure, and regulates materially deceptive synthetic depictions of candidates.

Approved May 18, 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Regulates mental health chatbots, requires notice when generative AI is used in patient communications, limits AI in utilization review, and recognizes neural and mental data privacy rights.

Enacted 2024, effective August 1, 2024. Criminalizes creating or distributing sexually explicit deepfakes, with severe parole-ineligible penalties when a minor is depicted and coverage of nonconsensual adult deepfakes.

Signed June 11, 2025, effective August 1, 2025. One of the first state frameworks for AI-generated evidence, requiring attorneys to exercise reasonable diligence to verify authenticity before offering evidence to a court.

Adopted May 30, 2024. Directs the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity to study AI across education, fiscal, and government operations, with annual recommendation reports.

Signed April 14, 2026, conversational-AI sections operative July 1, 2027. Requires conversational AI to disclose its non-human nature, adds minor safeguards, and bars chatbots from claiming to provide professional mental or behavioral health care.

Signed May 30, 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Imposes design duties on services likely accessed by minors: default high-protection settings, data minimization, no profiling or targeted ads to minors, and notification curfews.

Signed May 20, 2025, effective July 1, 2026. Adds computer-generated and AI-generated child sexual abuse material to Nebraska's child-pornography statutes with felony penalties, within a broader child-protection act.

Enacted as Chapter 249 in 2026, effective July 1, 2027. Requires conversational AI to disclose it is not human, restricts sexually explicit content, and adds protections for minors using AI chat services.

Signed 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Makes it a felony to create, possess, or distribute AI- or machine-generated sexually explicit depictions of a child, with no requirement that the child actually exist.

Signed 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Requires disclosure on deceptive synthetic media in electioneering communications and gives depicted candidates injunctive relief and damages.

Enacted 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Directs a statewide framework for generative AI in K-12, AI literacy standards, and data-privacy requirements, and guarantees AI cannot replace a human teacher.

Signed March 9, 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Adds a single statutory definition of artificial intelligence to Mississippi code. Foundational vocabulary, with no compliance duties or prohibitions.

Signed April 30, 2024. Amends the child-exploitation statute to cover computer-generated and morphed images of minors, capturing AI-generated CSAM, alongside duties on digital services for minors.

Enacted 2025. Creates the AI Regulation Task Force reporting through the PEER Committee. Its first report, January 2026, advised continued study and against broad AI regulation at this time.

Enacted 2024. Criminalizes creating or distributing synthetic media intended to injure a candidate or deceive voters, with enhanced penalties for intent to deter voting or incite harm.

Signed July 7, 2025, effective September 5, 2025. Criminalizes creating a nonconsensual forged digital likeness and disseminating it as genuine to defraud or injure, with tiered misdemeanor and felony penalties and a disclaimer defense.

Enacted 2024. Criminalizes using AI to generate child sexual abuse material and disseminating AI-generated intimate depictions to harass, with escalating felony penalties. The Attorney General has already filed charges.

Signed September 2023. Sets principles for state AI use and creates the Generative AI Governing Board. Paired with a first-in-the-nation OpenAI pilot scaled to 3,000+ employees by 2025.

Signed November 30, 2023, effective February 13, 2024. Requires AI-generated political ads to carry a clear disclosure and defines AI under the Campaign Finance Act, with civil fines for omission.

Enacted in the 2023 election package, effective February 13, 2024. Criminalizes distributing materially deceptive AI-manipulated candidate media within 90 days of an election without a disclaimer.

Signed August 26, 2025 with immediate effect. Creates a civil cause of action and criminal penalties for nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes of identifiable people, with felony upgrades and pseudonymous litigation.

Enacted by HF 1370 in 2023, effective August 1, 2023, amended 2024. Criminalizes disseminating a deepfake within 90 days of an election to injure a candidate or influence the result. Currently litigated but in effect.

Created by HF 1370 in 2023, effective August 1, 2023. Criminalizes disseminating a deepfake realistically depicting an identifiable person's intimate parts or sexual conduct without consent, with a companion civil action.

Signed May 19, 2024, effective July 31, 2025. Adds distinctive profiling rights: consumers may question, get an explanation of, and demand reevaluation of significant automated decisions, with Attorney General enforcement up to $7,500 per violation.

Signed by Governor Stein on September 2, 2025. Creates the AI Leadership Council, an AI Accelerator within the Department of Information Technology, and agency oversight teams that route AI use cases through central risk review. Applies to state government.

Enacted 2024, effective December 1, 2024. Folds AI-generated content into exploitative-material law, creates an offense for obscene depictions of minors even where no real child exists, and extends the private-images statute to realistic deepfakes of adults.

Published August 2024. Seven principles and practices for responsible state AI use in development, procurement, and deployment. Binds executive-branch agencies; guidance, not statute.

Administrative policy in effect since December 2023. Sets planning, procurement, security, privacy, and governance requirements for AI in state IT, with a multi-agency AI Council. Binds executive-branch agencies and vendors.

Signed May 22, 2025. Creates an offense for obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse including AI-generated imagery, expressly stating it is not required that the depicted minor actually exists.

Signed May 22, 2025. Defines morphed image and identifiable minor and folds morphed images into all three degrees of sexual exploitation of a minor, with proof of actual identity not required.

Signed April 24, 2025. Expands the definition of child pornography to include AI-generated and digitally created depictions of minors, real or fictional, with felony penalties.

HB 5690 created the AI Task Force in 2024; HB 3187 expanded it in 2025 to cover economic opportunity and annual reporting, extending its term to July 1, 2027. Study and advisory, not regulation.

Signed March 5, 2024, effective May 15, 2024. Amends the Campaign Reporting Act to require a disclaimer on AI-generated or manipulated campaign media distributed to influence voters, with escalating penalties.

Attorney General advisory issued April 16, 2024 and in effect. Confirms Chapter 93A applies to AI, making misrepresentation of an AI system's quality, safety, or fitness an unfair or deceptive act, alongside civil rights and data security duties.

Signed by Governor Healey on February 15, 2024. Establishes a 26-member AI Strategic Task Force to study AI impact across government, business, and education.

Signed March 21, 2024. Requires political committees to label audio or video ads containing generative-AI synthetic media with Contains content generated by AI, content neutral, with forfeitures up to $1,000 per violation.

Enacted 2024, effective late March 2024. Creates Wis. Stat. 948.125 criminalizing possession of virtual child pornography, defining a purported child to capture fully AI-generated imagery, with a minimum three-year confinement term.

Signed July 2, 2025. Bars candidates, parties, and PACs from distributing AI synthetic media within 90 days of an election unless clearly disclosed, with carve-outs for satire and a private right of action.

Passed the 2025 session. Updates Rhode Island's nonconsensual intimate image statute to cover AI-generated deepfake nudes of real, identifiable people, with misdemeanor and repeat-offender penalties.

Signed February 29, 2024. Establishes the Rhode Island AI Task Force and Centers of Excellence for AI and data within state enterprise technology, to study responsible state AI use.

Signed February 12, 2024, effective July 1, 2024. Adds computer-generated and AI-generated child pornography to South Dakota's child-exploitation statutes, including synthetic images of non-existent minors, with mandatory minimums.

Signed March 31, 2025, effective July 1, 2025. Prohibits disseminating an election deepfake within 90 days of an election with intent to injure a candidate, with a disclosure safe harbor and satire exemption.

Signed March 7, 2026, effective July 1, 2026. Criminalizes AI-generated CSAM, nonconsensual synthetic sexual imagery, and AI promotion of self-harm, states that using AI is not a defense to a crime, and provides limited developer immunity.

Signed April 12, 2023, effective immediately. Amends the definition of person so AI may not be granted personhood or any right that personhood entails, and individuals' rights are superior to those of AI.

Signed April 2025, effective August 1, 2025. Requires a prominent THIS CONTENT GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE disclaimer on political communications created wholly or in part by AI that impersonate a person.

Enacted 2025. Makes creation and possession of AI-generated and computer-generated child sexual abuse material a crime, building on existing child-exploitation statutes.

Signed April 23, 2025, effective January 1, 2026. Requires that licensed physicians, not AI systems, make prior-authorization and medical-necessity denials, with set decision timelines.

Issued by Governor Dunleavy in August 2025 and in effect. Directs executive agencies to deploy AI for digitization, automation, permitting, and deregulation. Pro-adoption, not private-sector regulation.