AI regulation news for Dec 15–21, 2025
In the week of Dec 15–21, 2025, 4 AI laws were enacted (New York, Maryland and Congress) and 3 laws took effect. 144 AI laws have been enacted in 2025 through this week.
Signed by a governor or the president, or otherwise made law, during the week.
SB655
Maryland's SB 655 creates an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program in the Administrative Office of the Courts to give the circuit courts and District Court expert testimony on the authenticity of electronic evidence that a court determines may…
Enacted December 16, 2025 Effective January 15, 2026 AI Deepfakes, AI in Government Official record
S06953
New York's RAISE Act (S 6953-B, Chapter 699 of 2025) as signed covered "large developers" spending over $100 million on compute, required safety protocols and set penalties up to $10 million, then $30 million.
Enacted December 19, 2025 Effective January 1, 2027 Frontier or General-Purpose AI, AI Transparency Official record
S07599
New York's S 7599-C (Chapter 711 of 2025) added State Technology Law Article 5, under which agencies would have listed automated decision-making tools and done bias-tested impact assessments from December 19, 2026.
Enacted December 19, 2025 Effective December 19, 2025 AI in Government, AI in Employment Official record
SB1071
The FY2026 NDAA has two AI subtitles.
Enacted December 18, 2025 AI in Government, Frontier or General-Purpose AI Official record
Laws whose effective date fell during the week.
S07882
New York's S 7882 adds General Business Law § 340-b to the article holding the state's antitrust law (§ 340).
Enacted October 16, 2025 Effective December 15, 2025 Algorithmic Pricing, AI in Real Estate Official record
S07599
New York's S 7599-C (Chapter 711 of 2025) added State Technology Law Article 5, under which agencies would have listed automated decision-making tools and done bias-tested impact assessments from December 19, 2026.
Enacted December 19, 2025 Effective December 19, 2025 AI in Government, AI in Employment Official record
S08831
New York's S 8831 (Chapter 86 of 2026) is the chapter amendment to Chapter 711 of 2025.
Enacted February 13, 2026 Effective December 19, 2025 AI in Government, AI in Employment Official record
Laws set to take effect in the four weeks after this one, through January 18, 2026. See every new AI law for 2027.
AB 723
California's AB 723 (Bus. & Prof.
Enacted October 10, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Real Estate, AI Transparency Official record
AB2013
California's AB 2013 (Civil Code §§ 3110-3111) requires developers of generative AI systems or services made publicly available to Californians, free or paid, to post documentation of their training data on their websites: by January 1, 2026 for systems…
Enacted September 28, 2024 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Transparency Official record
AB316
California's AB 316 adds Civil Code § 1714.46. In a lawsuit against a defendant who developed, modified or used artificial intelligence alleged to have harmed the plaintiff, the defendant may not argue that the AI autonomously caused the harm.
Enacted October 13, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Liability Official record
AB325
California's AB 325 amends the Cartwright Act, the state antitrust law.
Enacted October 6, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 Algorithmic Pricing Official record
AB489
California's AB 489 (Bus. & Prof.
Enacted October 11, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Healthcare, User-Facing AI Official record
AB621
California's AB 621 rewrites Civil Code § 1708.86, the civil claim over sexually explicit deepfakes.
Enacted October 13, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Deepfakes, AI Intimate Images Official record
AB979
California's AB 979 amends Government Code § 8586.5 so the California Cybersecurity Integration Center, led by the Office of Emergency Services, must develop a California AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook by January 1, 2027, informed by federal…
Enacted October 3, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Government Official record
SB243
California's SB 243 regulates companion chatbots, AI systems that give adaptive, human-like responses and can meet a user's social needs.
Enacted October 13, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
SB361
California's SB 361 expands what data brokers must report when registering with the California Privacy Protection Agency.
Enacted October 8, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Privacy Official record
SB480
California's SB 480 lets autonomous vehicles, from January 1, 2026, be equipped with automated driving system (ADS) marker lamps, which emit a light showing when the ADS is engaged in operating the vehicle, built to SAE International standards J3134 (May…
Enacted October 6, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 Autonomous Vehicles Official record
SB524
California's SB 524 (Penal Code § 13663) requires every law enforcement agency to have a policy that official reports written fully or partly with AI name each AI program used, state "This report was written either fully or in part using artificial…
Enacted October 10, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Law Enforcement, AI Transparency Official record
SB53
California's SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, covers developers of frontier models (foundation models trained with more than 10^26 operations).
Enacted September 29, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 Frontier or General-Purpose AI, AI Transparency Official record
HB1859
Illinois' Public Act 104-0201 (HB 1859) adds Section 3-29.28 to the Public Community College Act. Each community college board must require that the faculty member who teaches a course meet the qualifications in 23 Ill. Adm.
Enacted August 15, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Education Official record
HB3178
Illinois' Public Act 104-0282 (HB 3178) narrows Section 10 of the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, which makes unenforceable a services-contract provision letting a digital replica of a person's voice or likeness replace work they would have done in…
Enacted August 15, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Likeness, AI in Employment Official record
HB3773
Illinois' Public Act 103-0804 (HB 3773) amends the Illinois Human Rights Act.
Enacted August 9, 2024 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Employment, Automated Decision-Making Official record
SB1507
Illinois' Public Act 104-0381 (SB 1507) adds subsection (v) to the Vehicle Code's automated speed enforcement section (625 ILCS 5/11-208.8).
Enacted August 15, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Government, AI in Law Enforcement Official record
SB1920
Illinois' Public Act 104-0399 (SB 1920) amends the School Code.
Enacted August 15, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Education, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB655
Maryland's SB 655 creates an Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program in the Administrative Office of the Courts to give the circuit courts and District Court expert testimony on the authenticity of electronic evidence that a court determines may…
Enacted December 16, 2025 Effective January 15, 2026 AI Deepfakes, AI in Government Official record
HB513
Montana's HB 513 (Chapter 685 of 2025) gives Montana residents property rights in their name, voice and visual likeness that can be licensed, inherited and enforced for 20 years after death.
Enacted May 13, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Likeness, AI Deepfakes Official record
LB504
Nebraska's LB 504 (2025), the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act, applies to covered online services that know a user is a minor.
Enacted May 30, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Social Media & Online Platforms, Automated Decision-Making Official record
LB77
Nebraska's LB 77 (2025) adopts the Ensuring Transparency in Prior Authorization Act.
Enacted June 4, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Healthcare, AI in Insurance Official record
AB73
Nevada AB 73 adds NRS 294A.3493.
Enacted June 3, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI in Political Advertising, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB143
New Hampshire's HB 143 (Chapter 270 of 2025) targets chatbots that steer children toward harm.
Enacted August 1, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 User-Facing AI, AI Liability Official record
SB300
New Hampshire's SB 300 (Chapter 259 of 2025) creates RSA 649-A:3-c, which makes it a class B felony to knowingly create, produce, manufacture or direct an intimate visual representation of a child for prurient purposes when the child can be identified from it…
Enacted July 15, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI CSAM, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB2299
Oregon's HB 2299 amends the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image (ORS 163.472) so that "image" includes a digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic, however stored.
Enacted May 22, 2025 Effective January 1, 2026 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB2748
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
HB3936
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
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
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
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.