6 AI laws enacted in 4 jurisdictions

Budget Act of 2025.

Section 239 of AB 102 rewrote Section 11.25 of the Budget Act of 2025.

Enacted June 27, 2025 AI in Government Official record

Budget Act of 2025.

Section 11.25 of the Budget Act of 2025 (Artificial Intelligence Projects in State Departments) states the Legislature's intent that the workforce, fiscal, environmental, privacy, and policy effects of state generative AI projects be discussed publicly.

Enacted June 27, 2025 AI in Government Official record

An Act Concerning Broadband Internet, Gaming, Social Media, Online Services and Consumer Contracts

Public Act 25-113 overhauls the Connecticut Data Privacy Act's rules on automated decision-making.

Enacted June 24, 2025 Effective July 1, 2026 Automated Decision-Making, AI Privacy Official record

Relating To Traffic Safety.

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

Relating to the use of nursing titles.

Oregon's HB 2748 (Chapter 378, Oregon Laws 2025) adds a rule to the Nurse Practice Act (ORS 678.010 to 678.410): a nonhuman entity, including an agent powered by artificial intelligence, may not use the titles Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)…

Enacted June 24, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Healthcare, User-Facing AI Official record

Relating to the security of state assets; amending ORS 276A.340, 276A.344, 276A.346 and 276A.348.

Oregon's HB 3936 (Chapter 396, Oregon Laws 2025) amends the state law that keeps products of covered vendors off state information technology assets (ORS 276A.340 to 276A.348).

Enacted June 24, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Government Official record

Relating To Traffic Safety.

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

Statewide Study on Automation and Workforce Impact

FloridaVetoed June 27, 2025

Directing The Artificial Intelligence Commission To Work In Collaboration With The Secretary Of State To…

Delaware's House Joint Resolution 7, approved by the Governor, directs the Artificial Intelligence Commission to work with the Secretary of State to create a regulatory sandbox framework for testing innovative and novel technologies that use agentic AI…

Enacted July 23, 2025 Effective July 23, 2025 AI in Government, Comprehensive AI Official record

AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; modifying elements in the crimes of sexual…

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

Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act

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

Consumer Protection - Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation

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

Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action

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

Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act (commerce omnibus, Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3)

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

Generally revise laws related to crimes against children

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

Makes various changes relating to health. (BDR 34-674)

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

Relates to the disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools; requires the office of information…

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

Enacts the legislative oversight of automated decision-making in government act (LOADinG Act) to regulate the…

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

Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices

Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.

Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record

Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications

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

Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices

Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.

Enacted July 2, 2025 Effective July 2, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record

Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications

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

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to the unauthorized use…

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

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.

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

Artificial intelligence-based tool; definition, use of tool.

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

Autonomous driving systems; Secretary of Transportation to convene work group to study.

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

Custodial interrogations; false statements to a child prohibited, inauthentic replica documents.

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

Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.

Washington's Chapter 51, Laws of 2025 (SHB 1205) adds deepfakes to criminal impersonation.

Enacted April 16, 2025 Effective July 27, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Likeness Official record

Relating to the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence

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

Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography

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