AB 1979
Health care services: artificial intelligence.
California's AB 1979 sets rules for AI in clinical care.
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Healthcare, User-Facing AI Official record
New AI laws for 2027
44 AI laws in 17 states take effect in 2027, 33 of them on January 1. Each law below links to its page and its official record.
33 laws, grouped by state.
AB 1979
California's AB 1979 sets rules for AI in clinical care.
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Healthcare, User-Facing AI Official record
AB 2392
California's community colleges and CSU must, and the University of California is asked to, form a working group that by January 1, 2028 recommends procurement standards and user training for generative AI systems bought for education.
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Education, AI in Government Official record
AB 2504
California's AB 2504 creates the Future of Creative Industries Pilot Program at up to 10 community colleges to retrain workers in film, TV, music, touring and live events who have been or may be displaced by generative AI, such as sound engineers, voice…
Enacted September 18, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Education, AI in Employment Official record
AB1609
California's AB 1609 applies to businesses with over $500 million in national gross annual revenue.
Enacted September 28, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
AB1792
California's AB 1792 (Education Code § 51900.3) requires the Instructional Quality Commission, in the next revision of the Health Framework for California Public Schools, to consider including, and recommending to the State Board of Education, sexual health…
Enacted September 18, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Education, AI Deepfakes Official record
AB1946
California's AB 1946 amends the law on social media platforms and child sexual abuse material (Civil Code §§ 3273.65-3273.67, 3345.1).
Enacted September 10, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI CSAM, AI in Social Media & Online Platforms Official record
AB2713
California's AB 2713 rewrites the large-online-platform duties of the California AI Transparency Act (Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.3.1).
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Transparency, AI in Social Media & Online Platforms Official record
AB853
California's AB 853 amended the California AI Transparency Act (SB 942 of 2024), moving its operative date from January 1, 2026 to August 2, 2026.
Enacted October 13, 2025 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Transparency, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB 1050
California's SB 1050 (Bus. & Prof.
Enacted September 16, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Transparency Official record
SB 1159
California's SB 1159 makes clear that AI systems, autonomous agents, robots and other nonhuman entities are not 'persons' or 'members of the public' who can engage with government under the Public Records Act, the open-meeting laws, the Legislative Open…
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Government Official record
SB1111
California's SB 1111 clarifies that the voice or likeness protected by Civil Code § 3344, the right to sue over knowing use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph or likeness on products or in advertising without consent, includes a digital replica…
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Likeness, AI Deepfakes Official record
SB503
California's SB 503 targets bias in clinical AI.
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Healthcare, Automated Decision-Making Official record
SB574
California's SB 574 sets rules for generative AI in legal work.
Enacted September 30, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Transparency, AI Privacy Official record
SB867
California bans toys with companion chatbots until 2031.
Enacted September 10, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI Official record
SB928
California's SB 928 (Education Code § 89500.3) requires the instructor of record for a California State University course to be a person who meets the trustees' rules for faculty teaching credit or noncredit instruction, and every CSU faculty employee, from…
Enacted August 27, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Education Official record
HB 1139
Colorado's HB 26-1139 regulates AI in utilization review.
Enacted June 2, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Healthcare, AI in Insurance Official record
HB 1263
Colorado's HB 26-1263 regulates operators of conversational AI services: public AI systems that mainly simulate human conversation (customer-service, business and other listed uses excluded).
Enacted May 29, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
SB189
Colorado's SB 26-189 repeals and reenacts the 2024 AI Act as rules for automated decision-making technology (ADMT) that materially influences consequential decisions such as hiring, lending, housing and health care.
Enacted May 14, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 Automated Decision-Making, Comprehensive AI Official record
SB 444
Georgia Act 411, effective January 1, 2027, adds O.C.G.A. 33-46-7.1 for health insurance utilization review.
Enacted May 5, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Insurance, AI Healthcare Official record
SB 2909
Illinois' Public Act 104-0565 (SB 2909) amends School Code Section 24A-5 on teacher evaluation plans.
Enacted July 10, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Education, AI in Employment Official record
SB315
Illinois' SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, regulates developers of frontier AI models (foundation models trained with more than 10^26 operations).
Enacted July 6, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 Frontier or General-Purpose AI, AI Transparency Official record
HB1408
Indiana's HEA 1408 (P.L. 100-2026) is mostly an education bill, but Section 14 adds IC 24-16 on social media providers, defined in part as platforms that employ algorithms analyzing user data to select content for users.
Enacted March 4, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Social Media & Online Platforms, Automated Decision-Making Official record
A10008
Part Y of Chapter 58 of 2026 (FY2027 budget) enacts the Safe by Design Act (General Business Law Article 45-B).
Enacted May 26, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI in Social Media & Online Platforms Official record
S06953
New York's RAISE Act (S 6953-B, Chapter 699 of 2025) as signed covered "large developers" spending over $100 million on compute, required safety protocols and set penalties up to $10 million, then $30 million.
Enacted December 19, 2025 Effective January 1, 2027 Frontier or General-Purpose AI, AI Transparency Official record
S8828
New York's S 8828 (Chapter 96 of 2026) is the chapter amendment to the RAISE Act (Chapter 699 of 2025). It repealed and replaced General Business Law Article 44-B and set the effective date at January 1, 2027.
Enacted March 27, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 Frontier or General-Purpose AI, AI Transparency Official record
SB 1546
Oregon requires operators of AI companion platforms to tell users clearly that they are interacting with artificial output when a reasonable person would believe they were talking to a human, to keep and publish protocols that detect suicidal or self-harm…
Enacted March 31, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Liability Official record
HB7350
Rhode Island's AI companion law, effective January 1, 2027, applies to operators of AI companions: AI that simulates a sustained human-like relationship by remembering users, asking unprompted emotional questions and keeping up a personal dialogue.
Enacted June 22, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
SB2195
Rhode Island's AI companion law, effective January 1, 2027, applies to operators of AI companions: AI that simulates a sustained human-like relationship by remembering users, asking unprompted emotional questions and keeping up a personal dialogue.
Enacted June 22, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
HB276
Utah's HB 276 enacts two AI laws.
Enacted March 24, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Intimate Images, AI Deepfakes Official record
H0211
Vermont's H.211 (Act 138 of 2026) overhauls Vermont's data broker law, with higher fees and fines, checks before brokers disclose data, and a data broker breach-notice law.
Enacted June 16, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 AI Privacy, AI Transparency Official record
S0069
Vermont's S.69 (Act 63 of 2025) is the state's age-appropriate design code for online services likely to be used by minors.
Enacted June 12, 2025 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Social Media & Online Platforms, AI Transparency Official record
HB 2225
Washington's AI companion chatbot law (Chapter 168, Laws of 2026, effective January 1, 2027).
Enacted March 24, 2026 Effective January 1, 2027 User-Facing AI, AI Transparency Official record
AB456
2025 Wisconsin Act 69 updates real estate practice law and adds a rule on AI-enhanced listings.
Enacted December 9, 2025 Effective January 1, 2027 AI in Real Estate, AI Transparency Official record
By effective date.
Washington
HB 1170
Washington's AI content provenance law (Chapter 167, Laws of 2026, effective February 1, 2027).
Enacted March 24, 2026Official record
California
SB 947
California's SB 947 limits how employers, including public employers and labor contractors, use automated decision systems (ADS) such as AI tools, starting July 1, 2027.
Enacted September 30, 2026Official record
California
SB1119
California's SB 1119, "Adam's Law," sets child-safety rules for companion chatbots. Operators must determine users' ages under the Digital Age Assurance Act or give every user the child protections.
Enacted September 10, 2026Official record
Georgia
SB 540
Georgia's AI companion chatbot law (Act 518, effective July 1, 2027). Operators must clearly disclose that users are talking to an AI, at the start and at least every three hours (hourly for minors or minor-directed bots).
Enacted May 11, 2026Official record
Idaho
S 1297
Idaho's Conversational AI Safety Act (Idaho Code Title 48, ch. 21) regulates public-facing AI chatbots that simulate human conversation.
Enacted March 31, 2026Official record
Iowa
SF2417
Iowa's SF 2417 (Iowa Code ch. 554J) covers public conversational AI services built mainly to simulate human conversation.
Enacted May 2, 2026Official record
Minnesota
HF4138
Minnesota's HF 4138 (Laws 2026, chapter 111) adds section 325M.40 on social media accounts of children under 16.
Enacted May 26, 2026Official record
Nebraska
LB525
Nebraska's LB 525 creates the Conversational Artificial Intelligence Safety Act, operative July 1, 2027, and an Agricultural Data Privacy Act.
Enacted April 14, 2026Official record
New Jersey
S451
New Jersey's FAIR Act (Forbidding the Algorithmic Inflation of Rent) makes it unlawful, and a violation of the New Jersey Antitrust Act, to use rent-pricing software to coordinate residential rents.
Enacted July 20, 2026Official record
New Jersey
S3612
New Jersey's Fair Price Protection Act (S 3612) was substituted on June 30, 2026 by A 4085 (Assembly committee substitute for A 4085 and A 4523, third reprint), which became P.L.2026, c.55 on July 23, 2026.
Enacted July 23, 2026Official record
New Jersey
A4015
New Jersey's A 4015 (P.L.2026, c.73), the New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code, covers online services that display user content and let account holders interact, are reasonably likely to be accessed by minors, and whose providers earn over $25 million a…
Enacted August 11, 2026Official record
Laws with an effective date in 2027.
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.