AI regulation news for Sep 1–7, 2025
In the week of Sep 1–7, 2025, 12 laws took effect. 119 AI laws have been enacted in 2025 through this week.
Signed by a governor or the president, or otherwise made law, during the week.
No AI law was enacted this week.
Laws whose effective date fell during the week.
SB649
Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2025 adds 18 Pa.C.S. 4101.1, digital forgery.
Enacted July 7, 2025 Effective September 5, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Likeness 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
Laws set to take effect in the four weeks after this one, through October 5, 2025. See every new AI law for 2027.
SB47
SB 47 amended Business and Professions Code Section 6145 to require the California State Auditor to audit the February 2025 bar exam and report to the State Bar board of trustees, the Chief Justice, and the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees, with the…
Enacted October 1, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Government Official record
HB7287
Section 261 of Connecticut's 2025 budget act (Public Act 25-168) creates the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate synthetically created image.
Enacted June 30, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
H0757
Florida's CS/CS/HB 757 (Chapter 2025-99) extends s. 836.13, F.S., on altered sexual depictions (sexual deepfakes) to their creation. 'Generate' means creating or altering an image by computer or other means to portray an identifiable person, or offering or…
Enacted May 27, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
LD1727
Maine's chatbot disclosure law adds a chapter on communications with consumers via artificial intelligence to Title 10.
Enacted June 12, 2025 Effective September 24, 2025 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
HB376
Maryland's HB 376 restructures the Maryland Cybersecurity Council and adds AI duties.
Enacted May 20, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Government Official record
HB820
Maryland HB 820 (2025) governs health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and private review agents that use AI, algorithms or other software tools in utilization review.
Enacted May 20, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Insurance, AI Healthcare Official record
HB178
HB 178 (Chapter 427 of 2025) limits government AI use.
Enacted May 5, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Government, AI Transparency Official record
HB514
Montana's HB 514 (Chapter 686 of 2025) extends the offense of violating privacy in communications to digitally fabricated intimate images.
Enacted May 13, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB25
Montana bars people and groups working in an official election capacity from paying for or sponsoring an election or electioneering communication they know, or should know, is a deepfake of a candidate or party on the ballot, within 60 days before voting…
Enacted May 8, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Political Advertising, AI Deepfakes Official record
AB325
Nevada's AB 325 requires the state emergency management plan and each emergency operations plan adopted by a state or local governmental agency to include provisions ensuring that final decisions on emergency response planning and on allocating resources in…
Enacted May 30, 2025 Effective October 1, 2025 AI in Government, Automated Decision-Making Official record
HB96
Ohio's FY 2026-27 operating budget (HB 96) enacted R.C. 3301.24, an artificial intelligence policy requirement for K-12 schools.
Enacted June 30, 2025 Effective September 30, 2025 AI in Education Official record
SB33
2025 Wisconsin Act 34 adds deepfake intimate images to the state's representations-depicting-nudity law (s. 942.09).
Enacted October 2, 2025 Effective October 4, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes 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.