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MA H94: To ensure accountability and transparency in artificial intelligence systems

In Committee Massachusetts · 2025–2026 session

Last verified Oct 21, 2026 · official bill text

H94 · where it stands

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  2. Passed first chamber
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  4. Enacted
  5. Effective
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In one paragraph

Massachusetts H94 would add G.L. Chapter 93M requiring developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions (education, employment, lending, housing, health care, insurance, legal and government services) to guard against algorithmic discrimination, with Attorney General enforcement. On December 24, 2025 it accompanied H97, which was reported favorably and referred to House Ways and Means.

Plain-English summary, written with AI assistance. The official text controls.

What it means for business

None yet: the bill has not been enacted. If enacted, firms building or using high-risk AI for consequential decisions would need risk programs, assessments and consumer notices.

Key provisions

  1. Developers must use reasonable care against algorithmic discrimination, give deployers documentation, and notify the Attorney General and deployers within 90 days of discovering discrimination.
  2. Deployers of high-risk systems must keep a risk management program (e.g. NIST AI RMF), complete annual impact assessments, and notify consumers with a way to appeal or correct adverse decisions.
  3. Corporations that use AI to target consumers or influence behavior must disclose the purposes and methods, and notify consumers when algorithms set pricing, eligibility or access.
  4. Exempts businesses with fewer than 50 employees that do not train AI on proprietary data, low-risk systems, and entities under equivalent federal rules.
  5. Only the Attorney General enforces (Chapter 93A); no private right of action; no monetary penalty stated.
  6. Sections 1, 4, 5 and 8 take effect 180 days after passage; Sections 2, 3, 6 and 7 one year after passage.

Latest legislative action

Dec 24, 2025. Accompanied H97

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Topics and industries

Related topics

Comprehensive AIAI TransparencyAutomated Decision-Making

Affected industries

TechnologyEmploymentFinanceHealthcareReal Estate

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Related AI laws in Massachusetts

All Massachusetts bills →
H97 Protecting consumers in interactions with artificial intelligence systems S2516 Establishing the Massachusetts data privacy act H1210 Relative to AI health communications and informed patient consent S37 Promoting economic development with emerging artificial intelligence models and S243 Requiring consumer notification for chatbot systems S51 Relative to social media, algorithm accountability, and transparency

Same topic in other states

Colorado SB189 Automated Decision-Making Technology New York A09654 Enacts the New York Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act establishing protec Maryland SB936 Consumer Protection - High-Risk Artificial Intelligence - Developer and Deployer Washington HB2157 Regulating high-risk artificial intelligence system development, deployment, and Texas HB1709 Relating to the regulation and reporting on the use of artificial intelligence s Nebraska LB642 Adopt the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Act