The United States of AI LawAI Laws by State, 2026. Tile map, redrawn daily from the record.Each square is a state. The darker it is, the more AI laws it has enacted. Select a state to see its laws.
Gallery I
Firsts
For each subject AI law now covers, the earliest law in our collection, hung in the order it was enacted. Deepfakes, chatbots, hiring, self-driving cars: every one of them started somewhere.
Florida's CS/HB 1207 (2012) defines an autonomous vehicle as one equipped with technology that can drive without active human control or monitoring, lets a person with a valid driver license operate one in autonomous mode (that person is the operator), sets…
Earliest in the collection: Government use of AI and facial recognition
New Hampshire's HB 1329 adds RSA 263:40-b, which prohibits the department from using any facial recognition technology in connection with taking or retaining any photograph or digital image for purposes of RSA chapter 263 (drivers' licenses).
Earliest in the collection: Broad AI governance and frontier AI models
California's Assembly Concurrent Resolution 215 expresses the Legislature's support for the 23 Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values for the development of artificial intelligence and of related public policy.
Earliest in the collection: Deepfakes and AI-generated intimate images
Virginia's 2019 law closes a gap in the crime of maliciously disseminating or selling nude or partially nude images of another person with intent to coerce, harass or intimidate (Code 18.2-386.2, a Class 1 misdemeanor). 'Another person' now includes a person…
Earliest in the collection: AI disclosure and transparency, automated decision systems and AI in law enforcement
Idaho's H 118 (2019) requires transparency for algorithmic pretrial risk assessment tools, which score factors to estimate a defendant's risk and recommend bail or release conditions.
Earliest in the collection: AI-generated child sexual abuse material
Maryland's 2019 child pornography law amends Criminal Law 11-208 so the possession offense covers a computer-generated image that has been created, adapted or modified to appear as an actual and identifiable child under 16 engaged in sexual conduct…
Washington's Chapter 214, Laws of 2019 (ESHB 1325) authorizes personal delivery devices: electrically powered devices under 120 pounds that carry property on sidewalks and crosswalks at up to 6 mph and are equipped with automated driving technology…
New York's A 6787-D barred public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools, including charter schools, from buying or using biometric identifying technology until July 1, 2022 or until the Commissioner of Education authorized it after a public report…
Earliest in the collection: Chatbots and consumer AI and AI in health care
Virginia HB 2154 (2021 Special Session I) directs the Board of Health to require hospitals, nursing homes and certified nursing facilities to have policies allowing patients to use their own intelligent personal assistant during an inpatient stay.
Colorado SB 21-169 bars insurers from unfairly discriminating based on race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or gender expression in any insurance practice, and from using external consumer data…
Michigan's HB 5141 (Public Act 263 of 2023) requires whoever creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement (a paid ad about a Michigan candidate, election or ballot question with image, audio or video generated in…
Earliest in the collection: AI in housing and real estate
Colorado's SB 24-205 (the Colorado AI Act) covers high-risk AI that makes, or is a substantial factor in making, consequential decisions such as hiring, lending, housing, insurance and health care.
AI laws enacted each year since 2019, when our state-by-state review begins. 3 earlier laws are also in the collection. The last column is the year so far. Select a year to see every law in it.
One map for each year. A state is shaded once it has enacted at least one AI law; gold marks the states that enacted their first that year. From 20 at the end of 2019 to 50 today, counting D.C.
201920 with a law, 17 new
202027 with a law, 7 new
202134 with a law, 7 new
202238 with a law, 4 new
202340 with a law, 2 new
202445 with a law, 5 new
202549 with a law, 4 new
202650 with a law, 1 new so far
Had enacted an AI lawEnacted its first that yearNone yet
Gallery IV
New acquisitions
The most recently enacted laws, newest first. This room changes as legislatures act; for every week's news, see the weekly briefings.
California's SB 1159 makes clear that AI systems, autonomous agents, robots and other nonhuman entities are not 'persons' or 'members of the public' who can engage with government under the Public Records Act, the open-meeting laws, the Legislative Open…
California's community colleges and CSU must, and the University of California is asked to, form a working group that by January 1, 2028 recommends procurement standards and user training for generative AI systems bought for education.
California's SB 947 limits how employers, including public employers and labor contractors, use automated decision systems (ADS) such as AI tools, starting July 1, 2027.
California's SB 1111 clarifies that the voice or likeness protected by Civil Code § 3344, the right to sue over knowing use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness on products or in advertising without consent, includes a digital replica…
California's SB 1246 adds duties for autonomous vehicle manufacturers from July 1, 2028. Remote drivers must be in the U.S. and hold a license valid in California, of the right class.
Bills that passed a legislature and were vetoed, most recent first. They are not part of the collection's count, but they show where the lines were drawn.
Every object in this exhibition is an enacted law from our verified record, and the galleries rehang themselves when a law is added or corrected. "Earliest in the collection" means the earliest law we hold on that subject; our full 50-state review starts in 2019, so older laws appear only where we have verified them. Catalogue numbers are our own identifiers. 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.