LA SB 474: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from Artificial Intelligence Risk Act. (1/1/27)

In one paragraph

Louisiana's SB 474, the Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from Artificial Intelligence Risk Act, would have required developers of frontier AI models (trained with more than 10^26 operations) to publish transparency reports and report critical safety incidents, and would have required large frontier developers (over $500 million annual revenue) to publish a safety framework, obtain audits and certify compliance. The Attorney General could seek up to $1,000,000 per first violation. It passed no chamber: it was returned to the Senate calendar subject to call on April 21, 2026 and died.

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What it means for business

None: the bill died and never became law. If enacted, frontier model developers would have faced publication, audit, incident-reporting and certification duties from January 1, 2027.

Key provisions

1. 1Large frontier developers (with affiliates, over $500 million gross revenue) would have had to write, implement and publish a frontier AI framework, review it at least yearly and publish material changes within 30 days (R.S. 51:3111.3)
2. 2All frontier developers would have had to publish a transparency report when deploying a new or substantially modified frontier model; large developers would also have had to send the Attorney General's office quarterly summaries of internal-use catastrophic risk assessments
3. 3From July 1, 2028, large developers would have had to retain an independent auditor each year and certify compliance or deviations annually
4. 4Critical safety incidents would have had to be reported within 15 days of discovery, or within 24 hours if there was an imminent risk of death, serious injury or an active critical infrastructure cyberattack (51:3111.4)
5. 5Civil penalties would have been up to $1,000,000 per violation for a first violation and up to $10,000,000 for a second or later violation of the same requirement, enforced by the Attorney General (51:3111.7)
6. 6Whistleblower protections for employees responsible for assessing critical safety incident risk, including an anonymous internal channel for large developers (51:3111.9)
7. 7Would have preempted local rules adopted on or after July 1, 2027 that regulate frontier developers' catastrophic risk management (51:3111.8)
8. 8Would have taken effect January 1, 2027; the Senate adopted floor amendments April 21, 2026 (technical wording and cross-reference fixes) and the bill went no further

Latest legislative action

Apr 21, 2026. Read by title and returned to the Calendar, subject to call; died when the Louisiana Legislature's 2026 regular session ended

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