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AI laws that took effect in 2024

3 AI laws took effect on January 1, 2024

75 AI laws in 29 states took effect in 2024, 3 of them on January 1. Each law below links to its page and its official record.

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AI laws taking effect in 2024, by state.

January 1

3 laws, grouped by state.

California2 laws

AB 302

Department of Technology: high-risk automated decision systems: inventory.

California's AB 302 required the Department of Technology, by September 1, 2024, to inventory every high-risk automated decision system that state agencies use, develop or procure, or have proposed to, and to report it to two legislative committees by January…

Enacted October 13, 2023 Effective January 1, 2024 Automated Decision-Making, AI in Government Official record

Illinois1 law

HB2123

DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT

The enacted version of HB 2123 amends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act (740 ILCS 190). "Sexual image" now covers images that falsely appear to show a person's intimate parts or sexual activity, and a depicted…

Enacted July 28, 2023 Effective January 1, 2024 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record

Later in 2024

By effective date.

February 13, 2024

March 11, 2024

March 12, 2024

Indiana
HB1133

Use of digitally altered media in elections

Indiana's HB 1133 (P.L. 81-2024) regulates deepfakes in campaign ads. Fabricated media includes undetectably altered recordings, lifelike artificially generated imitations of a person made without consent, and media of an artificially generated person.

Enacted March 12, 2024Official record

March 18, 2024

March 23, 2024

March 25, 2024

March 27, 2024

March 29, 2024

April 20, 2024

May 1, 2024

Utah
HB238

Sexual Exploitation of a Minor Amendments

Utah HB 238 (2024) expands the definition of child sexual abuse material to include a depiction that is artificially generated and depicts an individual with substantial characteristics of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct.

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

Utah
HB249

Utah Legal Personhood Amendments

Utah HB 249 (2024) enacts Utah Code 63G-31-101 and -102, which provide that a governmental entity may not grant or recognize legal personhood in artificial intelligence or in other listed nonhumans such as inanimate objects, bodies of water, land, plants and…

Enacted March 20, 2024Official record

Utah
HB366

Criminal Justice Amendments

Utah HB 366 (2024) is a criminal justice bill whose AI-relevant provisions limit algorithmic decision-making. Courts may not rely solely on an algorithm or a risk assessment tool score when deciding on diversion or determining a sentence (Utah Code 77-18-103).

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

Utah
SB149

Artificial Intelligence Amendments

Utah's SB 149 created the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act: an Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy in the Department of Commerce and an AI Learning Laboratory in which the office may grant temporary regulatory mitigation agreements.

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

Utah
SB231

Public Surveillance Prohibition Amendments

Utah SB 231 (2024) defines biometric surveillance information as analysis of surveillance information using biometric software to identify a person or their location from physical attributes, and bars a government entity from obtaining it without a warrant…

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

Utah
SB66

Criminal Offense Amendments

Utah SB 66 (2024) amends the counterfeit intimate image offense in Utah Code 76-5b-205 so a counterfeit intimate image includes a depiction 'edited, manipulated, generated, or altered' to show the likeness of an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct.

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

May 21, 2024

June 2, 2024

June 4, 2024

June 6, 2024

Vermont
H0878

An act relating to miscellaneous judiciary procedures

Vermont's H.878 (Act 161 of 2024) is a judiciary omnibus. Its Sec. 45 amends 13 V.S.A. 2606, the crime of disclosing sexually explicit images without consent, so that a visual image includes a digital reproduction created or altered by digitization.

Enacted June 6, 2024Official record

June 28, 2024

July 1, 2024

Colorado
HB1147

Candidate Election Deepfake Disclosures

Colorado's HB 24-1147 bars anyone from distributing a communication about a candidate (including federal candidates and incumbents) with a deepfake to the candidate's electorate in the 60 days before a primary or 90 before a general election, if they know or…

Enacted May 24, 2024Official record

Florida
H0919

Artificial Intelligence Use in Political Advertising

Florida's HB 919 (s. 106.145, F.S.) requires political ads, electioneering communications and other political advertisements to prominently state "Created in whole or in part with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI)." when they contain…

Enacted April 26, 2024Official record

Florida
H1361

Education

Florida's CS/HB 1361 (Chapter 2024-162) amends s. 1002.321(3), F.S., to fund school district grants for artificial intelligence platforms that support learning in grades 6-12.

Enacted May 9, 2024Official record

Florida
S1680

Advanced Technology

Florida's CS/CS/SB 1680 (Chapter 2024-118) creates the Government Technology Modernization Council (s. 282.802, F.S.), chaired by the Lieutenant Governor, to study AI in government: a state code of ethics for AI systems, AI safety and security standards, how…

Enacted April 26, 2024Official record

Hawaii
SB2284

Relating To A Wildfire Forecast System For Hawaii.

Hawaii's SB 2284 (Act 200 of 2024) required the University of Hawaii to establish and implement a two-year program to develop a statewide wildfire forecast system using artificial intelligence, to forecast wildfire risk and improve public safety, preparedness…

Enacted July 5, 2024Official record

Indiana
HB1047

Sexual offenses.

Indiana treats AI-generated and digitally altered sexual images as 'intimate images' under both its civil nonconsensual-pornography law and its crime of distributing an intimate image.

Enacted March 12, 2024Official record

Indiana
SB0150

Artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.

Indiana's SB 150 (Public Law 108 of 2024) creates a 15-member legislative AI task force (IC 2-5-53.7) that studies AI used, developed or considered by state agencies, assesses its benefits, risks and effects on residents' rights, privacy, employment and…

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

July 3, 2024

July 17, 2024

August 1, 2024

August 7, 2024

August 9, 2024

Illinois
HB4762

DIGITAL LIKENESS PROTECTION

Illinois' Public Act 103-0830 (HB 4762), the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, makes a provision in an agreement for personal or professional services unenforceable if it allows a digital replica of the individual's voice or likeness to be created…

Enacted August 9, 2024Official record

September 1, 2024

September 17, 2024

California
AB 2839

Elections: deceptive media in advertisements.

California's AB 2839 (Elections Code 20012) bars knowingly distributing, with malice, an ad or election communication with materially deceptive content about candidates, elected or elections officials, or election equipment, from 120 days before an election…

Enacted September 17, 2024Official record

October 1, 2024

Utah
HB464

Social Media Amendments

Utah's HB 464 (Laws of Utah 2024, chapter 224) adds Utah Code 78B-3-1101 to -1103 on harm to minors from an "algorithmically curated social media service," one that drives engagement mainly through a curation algorithm (a process that personalizes which…

Enacted March 13, 2024Official record

October 9, 2024

November 1, 2024

December 1, 2024

December 28, 2024

By state

Laws with an effective date in 2024.

  1. Utah10
  2. Maryland6
  3. Alabama4
  4. Michigan4
  5. Tennessee4
  6. California3
  7. Colorado3
  8. Delaware3
  9. Florida3
  10. Idaho3
  11. Indiana3
  12. Virginia3
  13. Hawaii2
  14. Illinois2
  15. Iowa2
  16. Mississippi2
  17. New Hampshire2
  18. New York2
  19. Oregon2
  20. Washington2
  21. Wisconsin2
  22. Arizona1
  23. Louisiana1
  24. North Carolina1
  25. Oklahoma1
  26. Pennsylvania1
  27. Texas1
  28. Vermont1
  29. West Virginia1

Cite

AI Laws by State, “AI laws that took effect in 2024,” https://www.ailawsbystate.com/new-ai-laws/2024, accessed October 16, 2026.

A law is listed under the date its main provisions take effect, from its official record. Some laws phase in, with parts starting on other dates; each law's page has the details. 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.