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AI regulation news for Dec 22–28, 2025

No AI law enacted, taking effect or vetoed

In the week of Dec 22–28, 2025, no AI law was enacted, took effect or was vetoed. 144 AI laws have been enacted in 2025 through this week.

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States that acted during the week of Dec 22–28, 2025.
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Enacted

Signed by a governor or the president, or otherwise made law, during the week.

No AI law was enacted this week.

Took effect

Laws whose effective date fell during the week.

No AI law took effect this week.

Coming up

Laws set to take effect in the four weeks after this one, through January 25, 2026. See every new AI law for 2027.

California12 laws

AB2013

Generative artificial intelligence: training data transparency.

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

Artificial intelligence: defenses.

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

AB621

Deepfake pornography.

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

SB243

Companion chatbots.

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

SB480

Autonomous vehicles.

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

Law enforcement agencies: artificial intelligence.

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

Artificial intelligence models: large developers.

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

Illinois5 laws

HB1859

COM COL-COURSE INSTRUCTOR-AI

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

DIGITAL PROTECT-USE OF REPLICA

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

LIMIT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS USE

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

VEH CD-SAFETY ZONES

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

Maryland1 law

Montana1 law

Nebraska2 laws

LB504

Adopt the Age-Appropriate Online Design Code Act

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

Nevada1 law

New Hampshire2 laws

SB300

Criminalizing the creation of child intimate visual representations

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

Oregon3 laws

HB2299

Relating to the unlawful dissemination of intimate images.

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

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

Texas2 laws

Cite

AI Laws by State, “State AI law, Dec 22–28, 2025,” https://www.ailawsbystate.com/briefing/2025-12-22, accessed October 16, 2026.

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.