State AI law
Connecticut
AI laws
We track 20 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Connecticut. 7 have been signed or enacted.
Last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Connecticut’s bills stand
20 bills- Introduced
- 0
- In committee
- 0
- Passed a chamber
- 0
- Signed or enacted
- 7
- Dead or vetoed
- 13
Overview
How Connecticut regulates AI
Connecticut has 20 published AI-related bills in our register, 7 of them signed or enacted. Every bill below links to its own page with the status, dates and a plain-English summary.
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Connecticut AI bills
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Connecticut's Public Act 26-64 (SB 4) targets data-driven pricing and surveillance. Businesses that use an automated price setting device fed by personal data (other than to set a discount) and advertise the price online must show "THIS PRICE WAS INCREASED BY A PRICE SETTING DEVICE USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA" or similar. Retailers and delivery apps may not use surveillance pricing. Data privacy act controllers using facial recognition on premises for security must match only against their own database and post entrance signs. It also requires data brokers to register, bans selling precise geolocation data, and adds genetic-testing consent rules. Signed May 27, 2026; effective October 1, 2026.
An Act Concerning Online Safety
Public Act 26-15 is Connecticut's main AI statute. AI companion operators must disclose that users are talking to AI, run suicide and self-harm protocols and protect minors (from Jan. 1, 2027). Developers and deployers of automated employment-related decision technology must give notices to workers and applicants, enforced by the Attorney General, and AI use is no defense to discrimination claims (Oct. 1, 2026). It also adds frontier-developer whistleblower protections, provenance duties for large generative AI providers, AI subscription disclosures, a statutory AI definition, the CT AI Academy, an AI working group and state-agency AI inventory and assessment rules.
An Act Establishing a Civil Action for the Office of the Attorney General and a Private Right of Action for Victims of Unlawful Disseminatio…
Connecticut's HB 5312 (Public Act 26-55) adds civil remedies for AI-made intimate images. A person harmed by unlawful dissemination of a synthetically created intimate image may sue whoever knowingly shared it with intent to harm, for an injunction, damages including punitive damages, and attorney's fees, within two years of discovery. Covered platforms must run a notice-and-removal process for victims and the Attorney General, post plain-language instructions, and remove reported images and reasonable efforts at copies within 48 hours. The Attorney General can seek penalties of up to $25,000 per day. Effective October 1, 2026.
An Act Establishing A Task Force To Study The Effects Of Artificial Intelligence On The Trades Industry.
Connecticut's HB 5497 (2026), in the committee substitute text (File No. 433), would establish a task force to study the effects of artificial intelligence on the trades industry, including job displacement and the Technical Education and Career System's AI coursework, with a report due by January 1, 2027. The House passed it as amended by House Amendment Schedule A on May 6, 2026; it was tabled on the Senate calendar and died when the 2026 session ended May 6, 2026.
An Act Prohibiting The Disclosure Of The Residential Address Of Public School Employees Under The Freedom Of Information Act And Establishin…
Connecticut's SB 325 (2026), in the committee substitute text (File No. 292), would add school employees to the list of public employees whose residential addresses a public agency may not disclose from personnel, medical or similar files under the Freedom of Information Act (effective October 1, 2026), and would establish a task force to study individuals using artificial intelligence to develop mass FOIA requests. It passed the Senate on April 22, 2026, and died when the 2026 session ended May 6, 2026.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER MEANS TO GENERATE DECEPTIVE SYNTHETIC MEDIA AND AFFECT ELECTIONS.
Did not pass. HB 5342 would have barred distributing deceptive synthetic media (AI-altered or fake images, audio or video of a person) within 90 days before a Connecticut election or primary, without the person's consent and with intent to injure a candidate or sway the result, unless it carried a 'manipulated' disclaimer. Violations would have been crimes, from a class C misdemeanor to a class D felony for repeat offenses, and the Attorney General, depicted people and candidates could have sued. It cleared two committees but never got a House vote; the page previously showed it as passed by one chamber.
AN ACT CONCERNING AUTOMATED DECISION SYSTEMS PROTECTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES.
Connecticut's SB 435 (2026) would have set rules for employers that use automated employment-related decision processes. Deployers would have had to give applicants and employees notices, a statement of reasons for adverse decisions with a chance to correct data and appeal to human review, and an annual independent bias audit; violations of sections 3 to 8 would have been unfair trade practices enforced solely by the Attorney General; aggrieved workers could also have sued. It also covered state-agency AI use. After a Judiciary Committee favorable report, it was tabled for the Senate calendar April 20, 2026 and never voted on; it died when the session adjourned May 6, 2026.
An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2027, and Making Appropriations Therefor, and Provisions Related to Reve…
Section 261 of Connecticut's 2025 budget act (Public Act 25-168) creates the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate synthetically created image. A synthetically created image is a photo, video or other image not wholly recorded by a camera or partly or wholly computer-generated that is virtually indistinguishable from a real depiction of an identifiable person. It is a crime to intentionally share such an intimate image without consent, knowing it is synthetic, intending viewers to believe it is real, when the person is harmed, or after creating or obtaining it to harm them. Penalties reach a class D felony. Section 261 is effective October 1, 2025.
An Act Concerning Broadband Internet, Gaming, Social Media, Online Services and Consumer Contracts
Public Act 25-113 overhauls the Connecticut Data Privacy Act's rules on automated decision-making. From July 1, 2026, consumers can opt out of profiling used for any automated decision with legal or similarly significant effects (housing, insurance, health care, employment, financial services and more), question the result and learn why the decision was made, and for housing decisions correct inaccurate data. Controllers that profile for such decisions must complete impact assessments (for processing created on or after Aug. 1, 2026), and privacy notices must state whether personal data is collected, used or sold to train large language models.
An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence.
Connecticut's SB 2, as passed by the Senate (File 603 as amended by Senate Amendments A and B, as described in the OLR bill analysis), would require anyone doing business in the state to tell consumers when they interact with an AI system, and deployers of high-risk AI systems used in consequential decisions to give notices, explain adverse decisions and allow correction and appeal, beginning October 1, 2026, with attorney general enforcement. It would also create AI studies, an AI Academy and a synthetic intimate image crime. Passed the Senate May 14, 2025; tabled on the House calendar May 16, 2025; it did not pass the House.
An Act Requiring A Study Concerning Energy Efficiency Requirements For Artificial Intelligence Data Centers.
Connecticut's SB 1292 (2025) would have required the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, with the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority and the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, to study energy efficiency performance standards for artificial intelligence data centers and report to the Energy and Technology Committee by February 1, 2026. The Energy and Technology Committee reported the substitute favorably (File No. 538) and it was tabled for the Senate calendar on April 7, 2025; it did not pass before the session ended.
An Act Prohibiting The Creation And Dissemination Of Intimate Images Generated Using Artificial Intelligence And Without Consent.
Connecticut's SB 1143 (2025) was a short proposed bill with no operative text, stating its intent to prohibit the creation and dissemination of AI-generated intimate images without the consent of the person depicted by amending C.G.S. 53a-189c, establish criminal penalties and civil remedies, and define "deepfake technology" and "intimate image". It was referred to the Judiciary Committee on January 23, 2025 and died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Prohibiting Health Insurers From Using Software Tools To Automatically Downcode Health Insurance Claims.
Connecticut's Proposed SB 817 (2025), introduced by Sen. Looney, would have amended title 38a of the general statutes to prohibit any health insurer from using a software tool, including artificial intelligence or an algorithm, to automatically downcode or deny a health insurance claim submitted by a health care provider without detailed review by a clinical peer. The filed text is a brief proposed bill with a statement of purpose. Referred to the Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate January 21, 2025; it died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Prohibiting Health Insurers From Using Artificial Intelligence As The Primary Method To Deny Health Insurance Claims.
Connecticut's HB 5587 (Rep. Menapace) is a proposed bill that would amend the general statutes to prohibit any health insurer from using artificial intelligence as the primary method to deny health insurance claims. The text is a one-sentence statement of purpose with no definitions, penalties or procedures. Referred to the Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate January 21, 2025; it did not advance and died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Prohibiting Health Insurers From Using Artificial Intelligence To Deny Health Insurance Claims.
Connecticut's HB 5590 (2025) was a short proposed bill with no operative text, stating its intent to amend the general statutes to prohibit any health insurer from using artificial intelligence to deny health insurance claims. It was referred to the Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 21, 2025 and died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Prohibiting Health Carriers From Using Artificial Intelligence In The Evaluation And Determination Of Patient Care.
Connecticut's SB 447 (2025) was a short proposed bill with no operative text, stating its intent to amend title 38a of the general statutes to prohibit health carriers from using artificial intelligence in the evaluation and determination of patient care, to safeguard patient access to testing, medications and procedures. It was referred to the Insurance and Real Estate Committee on January 10, 2025 and died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Requiring A Study Of The Effect Of Artificial Intelligence On The Trades Industry.
Connecticut's HB 5048 (2025) was a one-paragraph proposed bill that would amend the general statutes to require a study of the effect of artificial intelligence on trade workers, including job displacement and the curriculum of the Technical Education and Career System. It was referred to the Labor and Public Employees Committee on January 8, 2025 and died when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Concerning Unlawful Dissemination Of Intimate Images That Are Digitally Altered Or Created Through The Use Of Artificial Intelligence…
Connecticut's HB 5045 (2025) was a proposed bill to amend titles 53 and 53a of the general statutes to criminalize the unauthorized creation and distribution of digitally manipulated intimate images, with a statement of purpose to criminalize nonconsensual creation and dissemination of "deep fake" pornography. The proposal has no detailed statutory text. It was referred to the Joint Committee on Judiciary on January 8, 2025 and died in committee when the 2025 session ended.
An Act Concerning Artificial Intelligence, Automated Decision-making And Personal Data Privacy.
Connecticut's Public Act 23-16 governs AI in state government. The Department of Administrative Services (for all state agencies) and the Judicial Department must inventory the AI systems in use by December 31, 2023 and yearly after, and post them. OPM and the Judicial Branch set policies by February 1, 2024 for buying, using and assessing AI; from then, agencies may not deploy an AI system without an impact assessment showing it will not cause unlawful discrimination or disparate impact. It formed a working group on AI best practices and an AI bill of rights, and from October 1, 2023 state contracts must require compliance with the data privacy act. Signed June 7, 2023.
An Act Concerning Motor Vehicle Registration Notice, the International Registration Plan, Carriers, School Buses, the Medical Advisory Board…
Sections 17 and 18 of Connecticut's Public Act 19-119 revise the state's fully autonomous vehicle testing pilot program. The Office of Policy and Management runs the program in up to four municipalities, each of which signs an agreement with testers setting routes, vehicles and hours. Testing is allowed only if a trained, licensed operator is physically inside the vehicle (no longer necessarily in the driver's seat), monitoring it and able to take immediate manual control, and each vehicle is registered with the DMV. Testing on limited-access highways is barred, OPM may halt unsafe testing, and testers must share performance information. Both sections were effective on passage.
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