AB1836
Use of likeness: digital replica.
California's AB 1836 amends Civil Code § 3344.1 (post-mortem publicity rights).
Enacted September 17, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Likeness, AI Deepfakes Official record
AI laws that took effect in 2025
14 AI laws took effect on January 1, 2025
102 AI laws in 34 states and D.C. took effect in 2025, 14 of them on January 1. Each law below links to its page and its official record.
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January 1
14 laws, grouped by state.
California7 laws
AB2355
Political Reform Act of 1974: political advertisements: artificial intelligence.
California's AB 2355 adds Government Code § 84514 to the Political Reform Act.
Enacted September 17, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Political Advertising, AI Transparency Official record
AB2655
Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.
California's AB 2655, the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, requires large online platforms (1M+ California users) to remove reported deepfakes of candidates, elections officials and elected officials within 72 hours during set periods…
Enacted September 17, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI in Political Advertising Official record
AB2876
Pupil instruction: media literacy: artificial intelligence literacy: curriculum frameworks: instructional…
California's AB 2876 amends Education Code § 33548 so the Instructional Quality Commission must consider incorporating AI literacy into the mathematics, science and history-social science curriculum frameworks when they are next revised after January 1, 2025…
Enacted September 29, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Education Official record
AB3030
Health care services: artificial intelligence.
California requires hospitals and other health facilities, clinics, physician offices and group practices that use generative AI to write or speak patient communications about clinical information to include a disclaimer that the message was AI-generated and…
Enacted September 28, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Healthcare, AI Transparency Official record
SB1288
Public schools: artificial intelligence working group.
California's SB 1288 (Education Code § 33328.5) has the Superintendent of Public Instruction convene a working group on AI in public schools, at least half of it credentialed teachers.
Enacted September 28, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Education Official record
SB896
Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act.
California's SB 896, the Generative Artificial Intelligence Accountability Act, governs state government's use of generative AI.
Enacted September 29, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Government, AI Transparency Official record
Illinois4 laws
HB2472
INS-ADVERSE DETERMINATION
Illinois' Public Act 103-0656 (HB 2472) is a broad health insurance act (explanation-of-benefits statements, prior authorization penalties, utilization review accreditation, adverse determinations).
Enacted July 19, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Insurance, AI Healthcare Official record
HB4623
SEXUAL EXPLICIT DIGITAL IMAGE
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012.
Enacted August 9, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI CSAM, AI Intimate Images Official record
HB4875
PUBLICITY ACT-USE OF AI
Illinois' Public Act 103-0836 (HB 4875) amends the Right of Publicity Act.
Enacted August 9, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Likeness, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB5395
NETWORK ADEQUACY-STANDARDS
The Health Care Protection Act is a broad health insurance reform covering network adequacy, prior authorization, step therapy and short-term plans.
Enacted July 10, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI in Insurance, Automated Decision-Making Official record
New Hampshire2 laws
HB1319
Relative to prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of synthetic sexual images
New Hampshire's HB 1319 (Chapter 127 of 2024) extends the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images to synthetic images. A synthetic image is an image altered or created to depict a person in a realistic but false way.
Enacted July 3, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
HB1432
Relative to prohibiting certain uses of deepfakes and creating a private claim of action
New Hampshire's HB 1432 (Chapter 243 of 2024) makes fraudulent use of deepfakes a class B felony.
Enacted July 19, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Deepfakes, AI Likeness Official record
New York1 law
S07676
Establishes contract requirements for contracts involving the creation and use of digital replicas.
New York's S 7676-B adds General Obligations Law § 5-302.
Enacted December 13, 2024 Effective January 1, 2025 AI Likeness, AI in Employment Official record
Later in 2025
By effective date.
February 27, 2025
Utah
HB13
Sexual Extortion Amendments
Utah HB 13 (2025) amends the crime of sexual extortion in Utah Code 76-5b-204 to include threatening to distribute a counterfeit intimate image, the term Utah law uses for computer-generated or manipulated depictions of an identifiable person nude or in…
Enacted February 27, 2025Official record
March 18, 2025
Mississippi
SB2426
Artificial Intelligence Task Force; create and prescribe responsibilities of.
Mississippi's SB 2426 created the Artificial Intelligence Regulation (AIR) Task Force: two legislators as co-chairs plus the heads (or designees) of Information Technology Services, the Mississippi AI Network, Homeland Security, the National Guard and the…
Enacted March 18, 2025Official record
March 21, 2025
District of Columbia
B25-0577
Public Life and Activity Zones Amendment ("PLAZA") Act of 2024 (D.C. Law 25-312)
Section 6 of D.C. Law 25-312, the PLAZA Act of 2024, amends the Autonomous Vehicle Act of 2012. No person or entity may test or operate an autonomous vehicle on a District roadway without an AV testing permit.
Enacted March 21, 2025Official record
District of Columbia
B26-0153
Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit Requirement Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2025
Expired. This District of Columbia emergency act, in force from March 21 to June 19, 2025, amended the Autonomous Vehicle Act of 2012 to bar testing or operating an autonomous vehicle on District roads without an AV testing permit.
Enacted March 21, 2025Official record
Illinois
SB2655
MEDICAID EXPANSION TASK FORCE
SB 2655's enacted text is a criminal-justice package. Its AI-related provision amends Section 11-20.4 of the Criminal Code of 2012 (obscene depiction of a purported child, which covers computer-generated images).
Enacted March 21, 2025Official record
March 24, 2025
Kentucky
SB4
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.
Kentucky's SB 4 (2025) governs state government's use of AI.
Enacted March 24, 2025Official record
March 25, 2025
Utah
SB332
Artificial Intelligence Revisions
Utah's SB 332 amends Utah Code § 63I-2-213 to move the repeal date of the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (Title 13, Chapter 72, home of the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy and the AI Learning Laboratory) from May 1, 2025 to July 1, 2027.
Enacted March 25, 2025Official record
March 27, 2025
Utah
HB444
Data Privacy Amendments
Utah H.B. 444 (2025) amends the Government Data Privacy Act for state and local governmental entities.
Enacted March 27, 2025Official record
April 2, 2025
New Jersey
A3540
Establishes criminal penalties for production or dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, commonly…
New Jersey's A 3540 (P.L.2025, c.40) makes it a third-degree crime for a person, without license or privilege, to create a deepfake (deceptive audio or visual media) to attempt or further any crime or offense, or to solicit, disclose or use one for that…
Enacted April 2, 2025Official record
April 11, 2025
Tennessee
HB825
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 49, relative to internet safety.
Tennessee HB 825 (Public Chapter 195) requires the department of education to develop social media and internet safety guidance for grades 6-12 by January 1, 2026, updated for emerging technologies, for use by school districts and charter schools from the…
Enacted April 11, 2025Official record
April 16, 2025
Montana
SB212
Creating the Right to Compute Act and requiring a risk management policy for critical infrastructure…
Montana's SB 212 (Chapter 150, 2025), the Right to Compute Act, requires government actions that restrict the private ownership or use of computational resources for lawful purposes to be limited to those demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to…
Enacted April 16, 2025Official record
April 18, 2025
Colorado
SB143
Extend Prohibition on School Facial Recognition
Colorado's SB 25-143 keeps the SB 22-113 ban on schools signing facial recognition contracts by deleting its July 1, 2025 repeal date. Contracts in effect April 18, 2025 stay allowed.
Enacted April 18, 2025Official record
April 24, 2025
Tennessee
HB1316
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 2-7-112 and Title 55, Chapter 50, relative to licenses.
Tennessee's HB 1316 (Public Chapter 297) renames the electronic driver license system the digital driver license system and limits its data use.
Enacted April 28, 2025Official record
May 7, 2025
Utah
HB452
Artificial Intelligence Amendments
Utah's HB 452 regulates mental health chatbots: generative AI that holds therapy-like conversations and that the supplier represents, or a reasonable person would believe, can provide mental health therapy or help manage mental health conditions.
Enacted March 25, 2025Official record
Utah
SB180
Law Enforcement Usage of Artificial Intelligence
Utah SB 180 (2025) requires each law enforcement agency to have a policy on employees' use of generative AI, covering approved tools, permitted tasks, review of AI output and discipline for violations.
Enacted March 25, 2025Official record
Utah
SB226
Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Amendments
Utah's SB 226 replaces the 2024 generative AI disclosure rules with Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 75. A supplier using generative AI with an individual in a consumer transaction must disclose it is AI, not a human, if the individual clearly asks.
Enacted March 27, 2025Official record
Utah
SB271
Unauthorized Artificial Intelligence Impersonation Amendments
Utah's SB 271 extends the state's abuse-of-personal-identity law (Utah Code Title 45, Chapter 3) to AI.
Enacted March 27, 2025Official record
May 12, 2025
South Carolina
H3058
Disclosure of Intimate Images
South Carolina's H. 3058 (Act No. 37 of 2025) creates the crime of unauthorized disclosure of intimate images (S.C.
Enacted May 12, 2025Official record
May 13, 2025
Delaware
HB16
An Act To Amend Title 29 Of The Delaware Code Relating To The Artificial Intelligence Commission.
Delaware's HB 16 (85 Del. Laws c. 17) amends the law that created the Delaware Artificial Intelligence Commission (HB 333 of 2024).
Enacted May 13, 2025Official record
Montana
SB413
Criminalize disclosure of certain explicit AI-generated media
Montana's SB 413 (Chapter 606, 2025) creates the crime of disclosing explicit synthetic media (sexual deepfakes): knowingly or purposely disclosing it when the person knows or should know the identifiable person shown did not consent and would suffer…
Enacted May 13, 2025Official record
May 22, 2025
South Carolina
S0028
AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 16-15-390 SO AS TO CREATE THE OFFENSE OF…
South Carolina's Act 57 of 2025 (S. 28, titled "AI Child Abuse" on the legislature's site) adds S.C. Code 16-15-390, obscene visual representations of child sexual abuse.
Enacted May 22, 2025Official record
South Carolina
S29
AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-375, RELATING TO THE DEFINITIONS…
South Carolina's Act 58 of 2025 (S. 29) targets digitally manipulated sexual images of real children. It defines "identifiable minor" and "morphed image" in S.C.
Enacted May 22, 2025Official record
June 10, 2025
Florida
H1161
Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions Posted without Consent
Florida's CS/CS/HB 1161 (Chapter 2025-133), Brooke's Law, amends s. 836.13, F.S.
Enacted June 10, 2025Official record
June 12, 2025
West Virginia
SB240
AN ACT to amend and reenact §61-2-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend the code by…
SB 240 makes sexual extortion a felony in West Virginia: knowingly disclosing or threatening to disclose a private sexual image to coerce someone into giving more images, money or sexual acts.
Enacted March 24, 2025Official record
June 25, 2025
Hawaii
HB1231
Relating To Traffic Safety.
Hawaii's HB 1231 (Act 212 of 2025) bars photo red light imaging detector systems and automated speed enforcement systems from using or being equipped with facial recognition software or biometric identification technology.
Enacted June 25, 2025Official record
July 1, 2025
Kansas
SB186
AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; modifying elements in the crimes of sexual…
Kansas SB 186 (L. 2025, ch. 120) brings AI-made sexual images into the Kansas criminal code. Possessing an obscene "artificially generated visual depiction" of a child is now sexual exploitation of a child.
Enacted April 24, 2025Official record
Maryland
HB504
Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act
Maryland HB 504 (2025), the Excellence in Maryland Public Schools Act, is a broad education bill with one AI provision.
Enacted May 6, 2025Official record
Maryland
HB956
Consumer Protection - Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation
Maryland's HB 956 creates the Workgroup on Artificial Intelligence Implementation: legislators, the Attorney General, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation CEO and appointed industry, academic, labor, civil rights, privacy, consumer and…
Enacted April 22, 2025Official record
Maryland
SB360
Revenge Porn - Definition of Visual Representation and Civil Action
Maryland SB 360 (2025) redefines visual representation in the revenge porn statute, Criminal Law 3-809, to include an image created with or without other existing depictions of a person that is indistinguishable from the person to an ordinary observer…
Enacted April 22, 2025Official record
Minnesota
SF4097
Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act (commerce omnibus, Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3)
Minnesota's Prohibiting Social Media Manipulation Act, enacted in the 2024 commerce omnibus (Laws 2024, chapter 114, article 3, sections 63 to 67, now Minn.
Enacted May 21, 2024Official record
Montana
HB82
Generally revise laws related to crimes against children
Montana's HB 82 (Chapter 102 of 2025) brings AI-made child sexual abuse images into the offense of sexual abuse of children. Knowingly possessing computer-generated child pornography is now covered.
Enacted April 7, 2025Official record
Nevada
AB406
Makes various changes relating to health. (BDR 34-674)
Nevada's AB 406 bars public schools from using AI to perform school counselors', psychologists' and social workers' functions relating to pupils' mental health, and has the Department of Education develop a policy for AI use by staff providing those services.
Enacted June 5, 2025Official record
New York
S00822
Relates to the disclosure of automated employment decision-making tools; requires the office of information…
New York's S 822 (Chapter 96 of 2025) is the chapter amendment to the LOADinG Act (Chapter 674 of 2024). It dropped that act's human-review and impact-assessment rules for state agency automated decision-making.
Enacted February 14, 2025Official record
New York
S07543
Enacts the legislative oversight of automated decision-making in government act (LOADinG Act) to regulate the…
New York's S 7543-B, the LOADinG Act (Chapter 674 of 2024), as signed would have barred state agencies from using automated decision-making systems for public benefits or decisions affecting rights or safety without meaningful human review, and required…
Enacted December 21, 2024Official record
Tennessee
SB1346
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17, relative to the unauthorized use…
Tennessee's SB 1346, the Preventing Deepfake Images Act (Tenn.
Enacted May 15, 2025Official record
Tennessee
SB741
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, relative to criminal offenses.
Tennessee SB 741 (Public Chapter 257) targets generators of child sexual abuse material.
Enacted April 24, 2025Official record
Virginia
HB1642
Artificial intelligence-based tool; definition, use of tool.
Virginia's HB 1642 (Code § 19.2-11.14) requires that decisions on pretrial detention or release, prosecution, adjudication, sentencing, probation, parole, correctional supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders be made by the judicial officer or…
Enacted April 2, 2025Official record
Virginia
HB2627
Autonomous driving systems; Secretary of Transportation to convene work group to study.
Virginia HB 2627 (2025) directs the Secretary of Transportation, with the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security, to convene a work group of VDOT, State Police, DMV, legislators and stakeholders on the operational, technical and legal issues raised…
Enacted March 24, 2025Official record
Virginia
HB2692
Custodial interrogations; false statements to a child prohibited, inauthentic replica documents.
Virginia's HB 2692 amends Code § 16.1-247.1 to bar law-enforcement officers from knowingly and intentionally making false statements about known material facts, including by using inauthentic replica documents, before or during a custodial interrogation of a…
Enacted April 2, 2025Official record
July 2, 2025
Rhode Island
H5046
Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025Official record
Rhode Island
H5872
Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025Official record
Rhode Island
S136
Relating to Criminal Offenses -- Electronic Imaging Devices
Rhode Island's 2025 amendment to R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025Official record
Rhode Island
S816
Relating to Elections -- Deceptive and Fraudulent Synthetic Media in Election Communications
Rhode Island's 2025 election deepfake law (R.I. Gen.
Enacted July 2, 2025Official record
July 9, 2025
West Virginia
HB3187
Relating to the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence
West Virginia's HB 3187 (2025) amends Code §5A-6-9, the 2024 law (HB 5690) that created the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
Enacted April 25, 2025Official record
West Virginia
SB198
Prohibiting creation, production, distribution, or possession of artificially generated child pornography
West Virginia's SB 198 (2025) makes disclosing or threatening to disclose a "fabricated intimate image" of an identifiable person, made with AI or similar technology, with intent to harass, intimidate, threaten, humiliate, embarrass or coerce a misdemeanor (a…
Enacted April 24, 2025Official record
July 23, 2025
Delaware
HJR7
Directing The Artificial Intelligence Commission To Work In Collaboration With The Secretary Of State To…
Delaware's House Joint Resolution 7, approved by the Governor, directs the Artificial Intelligence Commission to work with the Secretary of State to create a regulatory sandbox framework for testing innovative and novel technologies that use agentic AI…
Enacted July 23, 2025Official record
July 27, 2025
Washington
HB1205
Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness.
Washington's Chapter 51, Laws of 2025 (SHB 1205) adds deepfakes to criminal impersonation.
Enacted April 16, 2025Official record
August 1, 2025
Illinois
HB1806
THERAPY RESOURCES OVERSIGHT
Illinois' Public Act 104-0054 (HB 1806) creates the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act.
Enacted August 1, 2025Official record
Louisiana
HB178
Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure
Louisiana's HB 178 (Act 250 of 2025) revises the Code of Civil Procedure. Article 371 now requires attorneys to exercise reasonable diligence in authenticating evidence that may be false or artificially manipulated.
Enacted June 11, 2025Official record
North Dakota
HB1167
Artificial intelligence disclosure statements.
North Dakota requires a disclaimer on political content made with AI to impersonate a person.
Enacted April 10, 2025Official record
August 5, 2025
Arkansas
HB 1529
TO CREATE THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF UNLAWFUL CREATION OR DISTRIBUTION OF DEEPFAKE VISUAL MATERIAL; AND TO…
Arkansas Act 827 of 2025 makes it a crime to knowingly create or distribute, without consent, realistic deepfake images or video showing an identifiable person nude or engaged in sexual conduct: a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class D felony…
Enacted April 17, 2025Official record
Arkansas
HB1876
Regarding The Ownership Of Model Training And Content Generated By A Generative Artificial Intelligence Tool.
Arkansas Act 927 of 2025 sets who owns what a generative AI tool produces.
Enacted April 21, 2025Official record
Arkansas
HB1958
To Require Public Entities To Create A Policy Concerning The Authorized Use Of Artificial Intelligence.
Act 848 requires every Arkansas public entity, from state departments to cities, counties, school districts and colleges, to adopt an artificial intelligence and automated decision tool policy.
Enacted April 17, 2025Official record
August 6, 2025
Colorado
SB25-288
Concerning preventing certain disclosures of intimate depictions, and, in connection therewith, creating a…
Colorado SB 25-288 enacts the Preventing Unauthorized Disclosure of Intimate Digital Depictions Act.
Enacted June 2, 2025Official record
August 26, 2025
Michigan
HB4047
An act to impose civil liability and prescribe criminal penalties for the nonconsensual creation or…
Michigan's Public Act 11 of 2025, the protection from intimate deep fakes act, covers deep fakes: realistic images, video or audio whose production depends substantially on technical means rather than impersonation.
Enacted August 26, 2025Official record
Michigan
HB4048
Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; guidelines for dissemination of deep fake sexual images; enact.
Michigan's Public Act 12 of 2025 amends the sentencing guidelines in the Code of Criminal Procedure (MCL 777.17b) to list MCL 752.388(3), the felony form of creating or disseminating an intimate deep fake under the protection from intimate deep fakes act, as…
Enacted August 26, 2025Official record
September 1, 2025
Texas
HB 581
Relating to the creation of artificial sexual material harmful to minors.
Texas's HB 581 extends the state's age verification law (Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 129B) to AI-generated sexual material harmful to minors in which a real person is recognizable.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
HB2818
Relating to the artificial intelligence division within the Department of Information Resources.
Texas's HB 2818 requires the Department of Information Resources (DIR) to establish an artificial intelligence division.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
HB3133
Relating to user reports of explicit deep fake material on social media platforms.
Texas's HB 3133 adds explicit deep fake material to the complaint system that large social media platforms (over 50 million monthly active U.S. users) must run under Business & Commerce Code Chapter 120.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
HB3512
Relating to artificial intelligence training programs for certain employees and officials of state agencies…
Texas's HB 3512 adds AI training to the state's annual cybersecurity training requirement.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB 1188
Relating to electronic health record requirements; authorizing a civil penalty.
Texas's SB 1188 is an electronic health record (EHR) law.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB 1621
Relating to prosecution and punishment of certain criminal offenses prohibiting sexually explicit visual…
Texas's SB 1621 rewrites Penal Code § 43.26. Offenses for sexual material depicting an actual child cover images of a recognizable real child altered with AI or other software.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB 20
Relating to the creation of the criminal offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain obscene…
Texas's SB 20 adds Penal Code § 43.235.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB 441
Relating to criminal and civil liability related to sexually explicit media and artificial intimate visual…
Texas's SB 441 widens the Penal Code § 21.165 crime from deep fake videos to any deep fake media made or altered with AI or other technological means.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB1964
Relating to the regulation and use of artificial intelligence systems and the management of data by…
Texas's SB 1964 sets rules for AI used by state agencies and local governments.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB2373
Relating to financial exploitation or financial abuse using artificially generated media or phishing…
Texas SB 2373 (2025) targets deepfake scams. It defines artificially generated media as images, audio, video, text or other media created or modified with AI or other software with intent to deceive.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
Texas
SB2807
Relating to motor vehicles, including automated motor vehicles; creating a criminal offense.
Texas rewrote its rules for self-driving vehicles.
Enacted June 20, 2025Official record
September 5, 2025
Pennsylvania
SB649
An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and…
Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2025 adds 18 Pa.C.S. 4101.1, digital forgery.
Enacted July 7, 2025Official record
September 24, 2025
Maine
LD1727
An Act to Ensure Transparency in Consumer Transactions Involving Artificial Intelligence
Maine's chatbot disclosure law adds a chapter on communications with consumers via artificial intelligence to Title 10.
Enacted June 12, 2025Official record
September 30, 2025
Ohio
HB96
Make state operating appropriations for FY 2026-27
Ohio's FY 2026-27 operating budget (HB 96) enacted R.C. 3301.24, an artificial intelligence policy requirement for K-12 schools.
Enacted June 30, 2025Official record
October 1, 2025
California
SB47
February 2025 bar exam: audit.
SB 47 amended Business and Professions Code Section 6145 to require the California State Auditor to audit the February 2025 bar exam and report to the State Bar board of trustees, the Chief Justice, and the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees, with the…
Enacted October 1, 2025Official record
Connecticut
HB7287
An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2027, and Making Appropriations Therefor…
Section 261 of Connecticut's 2025 budget act (Public Act 25-168) creates the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate synthetically created image.
Enacted June 30, 2025Official record
Florida
H0757
Sexual Images
Florida's CS/CS/HB 757 (Chapter 2025-99) extends s. 836.13, F.S., on altered sexual depictions (sexual deepfakes) to their creation. 'Generate' means creating or altering an image by computer or other means to portray an identifiable person, or offering or…
Enacted May 27, 2025Official record
Maryland
HB376
Maryland Cybersecurity Council - Alterations
Maryland's HB 376 restructures the Maryland Cybersecurity Council and adds AI duties.
Enacted May 20, 2025Official record
Maryland
HB820
Health Insurance - Utilization Review - Use of Artificial Intelligence
Maryland HB 820 (2025) governs health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and private review agents that use AI, algorithms or other software tools in utilization review.
Enacted May 20, 2025Official record
Montana
HB178
Limit government use of AI systems
HB 178 (Chapter 427 of 2025) limits government AI use.
Enacted May 5, 2025Official record
Montana
HB514
Criminalize use of real and digitally fabricated sexually explicit images
Montana's HB 514 (Chapter 686 of 2025) extends the offense of violating privacy in communications to digitally fabricated intimate images.
Enacted May 13, 2025Official record
Montana
SB25
Revise election laws regarding disclosure requirements for the use of AI in elections
Montana bars people and groups working in an official election capacity from paying for or sponsoring an election or electioneering communication they know, or should know, is a deepfake of a candidate or party on the ballot, within 60 days before voting…
Enacted May 8, 2025Official record
Nevada
AB325
Revises provisions relating to artificial intelligence. (BDR 36-393)
Nevada's AB 325 requires the state emergency management plan and each emergency operations plan adopted by a state or local governmental agency to include provisions ensuring that final decisions on emergency response planning and on allocating resources in…
Enacted May 30, 2025Official record
October 4, 2025
Wisconsin
SB33
Representations depicting nudity and providing a penalty.
2025 Wisconsin Act 34 adds deepfake intimate images to the state's representations-depicting-nudity law (s. 942.09).
Enacted October 2, 2025Official record
November 1, 2025
Oklahoma
HB1364
Crimes and punishments; sexual obscenity; making certain acts unlawful; effective date.
Oklahoma's HB 1364 (2025) adds AI-made sexual images to the crime of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images.
Enacted May 5, 2025Official record
November 5, 2025
New York
S03008
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic…
New York's 2025-26 budget bill (Chapter 58 of 2025) includes two AI laws.
Enacted May 9, 2025Official record
November 12, 2025
Pennsylvania
HB416
Fiscal Code - omnibus amendments (Act 45 of 2025), including section 1755-E on stenography services and…
Pennsylvania's Act 45 of 2025 is a Fiscal Code omnibus; its AI provision is new section 1755-E.
Enacted November 12, 2025Official record
November 25, 2025
Colorado
SB25B-004
Increase Transparency for Algorithmic Systems
Colorado's SB 25B-004, passed in the August 2025 special session, replaced every February 1, 2026 start date in the Colorado AI Act (SB 24-205, C.R.S. 6-1-1702 to 6-1-1704) with June 30, 2026.
Enacted August 28, 2025Official record
December 11, 2025
New York
S08391
Relates to the right of publicity; amends the definitions of "deceased performer", "deceased personality" and…
New York's S 8391 amends the post-mortem right of publicity (Civil Rights Law § 50-f).
Enacted December 11, 2025Official record
December 15, 2025
New York
S07882
Prohibits a person or entity from knowingly or with reckless disregard facilitate an agreement between or…
New York's S 7882 adds General Business Law § 340-b to the article holding the state's antitrust law (§ 340).
Enacted October 16, 2025Official record
December 19, 2025
New York
S07599
Regulates automated decision-making by government agencies; requires agencies to conduct impact assessments…
New York's S 7599-C (Chapter 711 of 2025) added State Technology Law Article 5, under which agencies would have listed automated decision-making tools and done bias-tested impact assessments from December 19, 2026.
Enacted December 19, 2025Official record
New York
S08831
Provides for the use of automated employment decision-making tools and artificial intelligence systems by a…
New York's S 8831 (Chapter 86 of 2026) is the chapter amendment to Chapter 711 of 2025.
Enacted February 13, 2026Official record
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Laws with an effective date in 2025.
- Texas11
- California8
- New York8
- Utah7
- Illinois6
- Montana6
- Maryland5
- Rhode Island4
- Tennessee4
- Arkansas3
- Colorado3
- South Carolina3
- Virginia3
- West Virginia3
- Delaware2
- District of Columbia2
- Florida2
- Michigan2
- Nevada2
- New Hampshire2
- Pennsylvania2
- Connecticut1
- Hawaii1
- Kansas1
- Kentucky1
- Louisiana1
- Maine1
- Minnesota1
- Mississippi1
- New Jersey1
- North Dakota1
- Ohio1
- Oklahoma1
- Washington1
- Wisconsin1
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AI Laws by State, “AI laws that took effect in 2025,” https://www.ailawsbystate.com/new-ai-laws/2025, 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.