CT SB00002: An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence.

In one paragraph

Connecticut's SB 2, as passed by the Senate (File 603 as amended by Senate Amendments A and B, as described in the OLR bill analysis), would require anyone doing business in the state to tell consumers when they interact with an AI system, and deployers of high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions to give notices, explain adverse decisions and allow correction and appeal, beginning October 1, 2026, with attorney general enforcement. It would also create AI studies, an AI Academy and a synthetic intimate image crime. Passed the Senate May 14, 2025; tabled on the House calendar May 16, 2025; it did not pass the House.

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What it means for business

None: the bill did not pass. It would have required businesses deploying consumer-facing or high-risk AI systems to make disclosures, and employers to report AI-related layoffs.

Key provisions

1. 1Beginning October 1, 2026, anyone doing business in the state that deploys or makes available an AI system intended to interact with consumers would have to ensure each consumer is told they are interacting with AI, unless obvious to a reasonable person (secs. 1-2)
2. 2Deployers of a high-risk AI system that makes or is a substantial factor in a consequential decision (education, employment, credit, government services, housing or legal services) would have to notify the consumer beforehand and disclose the system's purpose, the decision's nature and contact information
3. 3For an adverse decision, the deployer would have to give the principal reasons and let the consumer correct incorrect personal data and appeal a decision based on it, with human review if technically feasible
4. 4Violations would be Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act violations enforced solely by the attorney general, with no private right of action; HIPAA covered entities and federal contractors would be exempt
5. 5Would create a new crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate synthetically created image (sec. 22)
6. 6Would require employers giving federal mass-layoff notice to tell the Labor Department whether layoffs relate to AI or technological change
7. 7Would also create an AI Academy, a regulatory sandbox plan, a working group to report by February 1, 2026, state agency generative AI studies, a K-8 AI literacy initiative for alliance districts, and Connecticut Data Privacy Act changes

Latest legislative action

May 16, 2025. Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House; House Calendar Number 599

Sponsors (showing 5 of 47)

Roll call votes (showing 3 of 4)

Amendments (7)

• Senate LCO Amendment #8188 (D) Not adopted 2025-05-13
• Senate LCO Amendment #8464 (D) Not adopted 2025-05-14
• Senate LCO Amendment #8448 (R) Not adopted 2025-05-14
• Senate LCO Amendment #8447 (R) Not adopted 2025-05-14
• Senate LCO Amendment #8438 (R) Not adopted 2025-05-14
• Senate Schedule A LCO# 8540 (J) Not adopted 2025-05-14
• Senate Schedule B LCO# 8554 (D) Not adopted 2025-05-14

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