AI regulation news for Jun 16–22, 2025
In the week of Jun 16–22, 2025, 14 AI laws were enacted (Texas and Maine) and 1 AI bill was vetoed. 94 AI laws have been enacted in 2025 through this week.
Signed by a governor or the president, or otherwise made law, during the week.
LD1944
Maine's LD 1944 (Public Law chapter 400) expands the crime of unauthorized dissemination of certain private images (17-A MRSA §511-A) to cover an image created or modified so that it appears to show the depicted person nude or engaged in a sexual act or…
Enacted June 20, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB 581
Texas's HB 581 extends the state's age verification law (Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 129B) to AI-generated sexual material harmful to minors in which a real person is recognizable.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB2818
Texas's HB 2818 requires the Department of Information Resources (DIR) to establish an artificial intelligence division.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI in Government Official record
HB3133
Texas's HB 3133 adds explicit deep fake material to the complaint system that large social media platforms (over 50 million monthly active U.S. users) must run under Business & Commerce Code Chapter 120.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Intimate Images Official record
HB3512
Texas's HB 3512 adds AI training to the state's annual cybersecurity training requirement.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI in Government Official record
SB 1188
Texas's SB 1188 is an electronic health record (EHR) law.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI Healthcare, AI Transparency Official record
SB 1621
Texas's SB 1621 rewrites Penal Code § 43.26. Offenses for sexual material depicting an actual child cover images of a recognizable real child altered with AI or other software.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI CSAM Official record
SB 20
Texas's SB 20 adds Penal Code § 43.235.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI CSAM Official record
SB 441
Texas's SB 441 widens the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media made or altered with AI or other technological means.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Intimate Images Official record
SB1964
Texas's SB 1964 sets rules for AI used by state agencies and local governments.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI in Government, Automated Decision-Making Official record
SB2373
Texas SB 2373 (2025) targets deepfake scams. It defines artificially generated media as images, audio, video, text or other media created or modified with AI or other software with intent to deceive.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Liability Official record
SB2807
Texas rewrote its rules for self-driving vehicles.
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective September 1, 2025 Autonomous Vehicles Official record
SB815
Texas's SB 815 bars utilization review agents from using an automated decision system to make, wholly or partly, an adverse determination (a finding that health care services are not medically necessary or appropriate, or are experimental or investigational).
Enacted June 20, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Insurance, AI Healthcare Official record
HB149
Texas's HB 149, the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act, bars developing or deploying AI intended to incite self-harm, harm to others or crime, with intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class (disparate impact alone is…
Enacted June 22, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 Comprehensive AI, AI in Government Official record
Laws whose effective date fell during the week.
No AI law took effect this week.
HB449
Laws set to take effect in the four weeks after this one, through July 20, 2025. See every new AI law for 2027.
HB1231
Hawaii's HB 1231 (Act 212 of 2025) bars photo red light imaging detector systems and automated speed enforcement systems from using or being equipped with facial recognition software or biometric identification technology.
Enacted June 25, 2025 Effective June 25, 2025 Facial Recognition, AI in Law Enforcement Official record
SB186
Kansas SB 186 (L. 2025, ch. 120) brings AI-made sexual images into the Kansas criminal code. Possessing an obscene "artificially generated visual depiction" of a child is now sexual exploitation of a child.
Enacted April 24, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI CSAM, AI Intimate Images Official record
HB504
Maryland HB 504 (2025), the Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act, is a broad education bill with one AI provision.
Enacted May 6, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Education Official record
HB956
Maryland's HB 956 creates the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation: legislators, the Attorney General, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation CEO and appointed industry, academic, labor, civil rights, privacy, consumer and…
Enacted April 22, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Government, Comprehensive AI Official record
SB360
Maryland SB 360 (2025) redefines visual representation in the revenge porn statute, Criminal Law 3-809, to include an image created with or without other existing depictions of a person that is indistinguishable from the person to an ordinary observer…
Enacted April 22, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
SF4097
Minnesota's Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act, enacted in the 2024 commerce omnibus (Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3, sections 63 to 67, now Minn.
Enacted May 21, 2024 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Social Media & Online Platforms, AI Transparency Official record
HB82
Montana's HB 82 (Chapter 102 of 2025) brings AI-made child sexual abuse images into the offense of sexual abuse of children. Knowingly possessing computer-generated child pornography is now covered.
Enacted April 7, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI CSAM, AI Deepfakes Official record
AB406
Nevada's AB 406 bars public schools from using AI to perform school counselors', psychologists' and social workers' functions relating to pupils' mental health, and has the Department of Education develop a policy for AI use by staff providing those services.
Enacted June 5, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI Healthcare, User-Facing AI Official record
S00822
New York's S 822 (Chapter 96 of 2025) is the chapter amendment to the LOADinG Act (Chapter 674 of 2024). It dropped that act's human-review and impact-assessment rules for state agency automated decision-making.
Enacted February 14, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Government, AI in Employment Official record
S07543
New York's S 7543-B, the LOADinG Act (Chapter 674 of 2024), as signed would have barred state agencies from using automated decision-making systems for public benefits or decisions affecting rights or safety without meaningful human review, and required…
Enacted December 21, 2024 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Government, Automated Decision-Making Official record
H5046
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
H5872
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI in Political Advertising, AI Deepfakes Official record
S136
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
S816
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI in Political Advertising, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB1346
Tennessee's SB 1346, the Preventing Deepfake Images Act (Tenn.
Enacted May 15, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB741
Tennessee SB 741 (Public Chapter 257) targets generators of child sexual abuse material.
Enacted April 24, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI CSAM Official record
HB1642
Virginia's HB 1642 (Code § 19.2-11.14) requires that decisions on pretrial detention or release, prosecution, adjudication, sentencing, probation, parole, correctional supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders be made by the judicial officer or…
Enacted April 2, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Law Enforcement, Automated Decision-Making Official record
HB2627
Virginia HB 2627 (2025) directs the Secretary of Transportation, with the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, to convene a work group of VDOT, State Police, DMV, legislators and stakeholders on the operational, technical and legal issues raised…
Enacted March 24, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 Autonomous Vehicles, AI in Government Official record
HB2692
Virginia's HB 2692 amends Code § 16.1-247.1 to bar law-enforcement officers from knowingly and intentionally making false statements about known material facts, including by using inauthentic replica documents, before or during a custodial interrogation of a…
Enacted April 2, 2025 Effective July 1, 2025 AI in Law Enforcement Official record
HB3187
West Virginia's HB 3187 (2025) amends Code §5A-6-9, the 2024 law (HB 5690) that created the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
Enacted April 25, 2025 Effective July 9, 2025 AI in Government Official record
SB198
West Virginia's SB 198 (2025) makes disclosing or threatening to disclose a "fabricated intimate image" of an identifiable person, made with AI or similar technology, with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, humiliate, embarrass or coerce a misdemeanor (a…
Enacted April 24, 2025 Effective July 9, 2025 AI CSAM, AI Intimate Images Official record
Weeks run Monday through Sunday, U.S. Eastern time. Enactment dates come from each law's official record; for a few laws not yet reviewed, the date is the last recorded action. Veto dates are the recorded action date. This page is rebuilt from our records, so a correction to any law shows up here too. Counts follow our methodology: published, AI-relevant bills, one per bill number, enacted when signed or otherwise made law. Data as of October 16, 2026. Free to cite and reuse with credit to AI Laws by State (CC BY 4.0 data). Spot an error? Tell us.