State AI law
Illinois
AI laws
We track 161 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Illinois. 25 have been signed or enacted, and 101 are still moving.
Last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Illinois’s bills stand
161 bills- Introduced
- 3
- In committee
- 95
- Passed a chamber
- 3
- Signed or enacted
- 25
- Dead or vetoed
- 35
Overview
How Illinois regulates AI
Illinois has 161 published AI-related bills in our register, 25 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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- Jan 1, 2027 SB 2909 · SCH CD-TEACHER EVALUATION-AI
- Jan 1, 2027 SB315 · Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act
- Jan 1, 2028 SB3114 · TRANSPARENCY IN DOWNCODING ACT
Illinois AI bills
RSS feed for IllinoisVEH CD-PLATES-REGISTRATION
HB4843 is a Vehicle Code bill mostly about license plates, registration and driver's licenses. Its AI provision amends Section 12-610.2 of the Illinois Vehicle Code (625 ILCS 5/12-610.2) so that "electronic communication device" expressly includes artificial intelligence smart glasses. It also provides that the exception for hands-free or voice-operated use of a device while driving does not apply to AI smart glasses, so drivers may not use them while operating a vehicle on a roadway. Effective July 31, 2026.
TRANSPARENCY IN DOWNCODING ACT
The Transparency in Downcoding Act regulates how health care payors reduce the billing code on medical claims. Section 15 prohibits a payor from implementing any policy or using any algorithm or other automated process, system or tool that bypasses evaluation of the information submitted by the billing health care professional in order to downcode a claim. Payors may use automated processes to flag claims that may justify downcoding under AMA CPT coding guidelines, but every downcoding determination must be made or reviewed by a natural person. The Act applies to policies issued, amended, delivered or renewed on or after January 1, 2028, and is a limit on home rule powers.
SCH CD-TEACHER EVALUATION-AI
Illinois' Public Act 104-0565 (SB 2909) amends School Code Section 24A-5 on teacher evaluation plans. An evaluator may not use an AI tool to assign a numerical score or qualitative rating for any component of a teacher's evaluation or any evaluation task that requires professional judgment, and a teacher may not use an AI tool to generate evidence of professional practice used to evaluate the teacher; both may use AI to support administrative tasks. Any AI tool's name and specific purpose must be disclosed to the other party. Approved July 10, 2026; effective January 1, 2027.
Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act
Illinois' SB 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, regulates developers of frontier AI models (foundation models trained with more than 10^26 operations). All frontier developers must publish a transparency report when deploying a new or substantially modified model and report critical safety incidents within 72 hours. Large frontier developers (over $500 million revenue with affiliates) need a state disclosure statement from January 1, 2027, and from January 1, 2028 a published frontier AI framework and annual independent audits. Large developers face Attorney General penalties up to $1 million, then $3 million. Signed July 6, 2026 (P.A. 104-0538); effective January 1, 2027.
$CMS-AI PROCUREMENT
Illinois's SB 2780 (104th General Assembly) would appropriate $250,000, or so much as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Central Management Services for a grant to Amp AI, doing business as Nozma, to conduct a procurement modernization and artificial intelligence pilot program. Its Section 99 sets an effective date of July 1, 2026. Last action: referred to Assignments July 2, 2026 under Senate Rule 3-9(b).
ALGORITHMIC PRICE TRANSPARENCY
Illinois's HB 4248, as the Senate amended it (Senate Floor Amendment 1), would create the Protection from Surveillance Pricing Act, banning surveillance pricing: customized prices for a consumer or group based on personal data. The House passed an earlier version 78-19 on May 22, 2026; the Senate passed it as amended 41-16 on May 31, 2026. The House has not concurred and re-referred it to the Rules Committee July 1, 2026, so it has not gone to the Governor.
PRP & ISBE AI ANALYSIS
Illinois's HJR 50 (104th General Assembly) is a House joint resolution that would direct the Professional Review Panel and the State Board of Education to analyze and model the current, likely and potential impacts of AI and related technologies on the cost factors in the evidence-based funding model, with a report due by December 31, 2027. It would not change the law. Re-referred to Rules July 1, 2026.
FY27 BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION
Article 40 of the FY2027 Budget Implementation Act supports Senate Bill 315, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. It lets the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security adopt emergency rules for that Act (5 ILCS 100/5-45.71), creates the AI Safety Measures Fund for its fees and civil penalties (30 ILCS 105/5.1038, 6z-149), and amends Sections 18 and 25 of the Act so large frontier developer disclosure and annual fees are set by rule. Article 40 takes effect when the Act becomes law or on SB 315's effective date, whichever is later.
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PILOT PROJ
Illinois's SB 3392 would create the Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project Act, letting level 4 or 5 autonomous vehicles operate on public roads under authorization from the Department of Transportation, with pilot projects confined to counties of 1,000,000 or more, Sangamon County and the Metro East counties. The Act would be repealed January 1, 2029. Filed February 4, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 15, 2026; it has not passed either house.
AI PRODUCT LIABILITY ACT
Illinois's SB 3590 would create the Artificial Intelligence Product Liability Act. In product liability actions over high-impact or generative AI systems, a developer would be liable only if the plaintiff establishes the elements listed in Sec. 15: failure to use reasonable care in design, in instructions or warnings, and in an express warranty, causing harm. Deployers would be treated as developers if they materially change the product or intentionally misuse it. Filed February 5, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026; it has not passed either house.
CHATBOT RESPONSE LIABILITY ACT
Illinois's SB 3368 (104th General Assembly) would create the Chatbot Response Liability Act. A chatbot proprietor could not disclaim liability when its chatbot gives materially misleading, incorrect, contradictory or harmful information resulting in financial loss, other demonstrable harm or bodily harm to the user or a third party, would have to give clear notice that users are talking to AI, and would face companion chatbot rules including parental consent for minors. Re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
BETTER SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS ACT
Illinois's SB 3454 (104th General Assembly) would create the Better Social Media Feeds Act. A covered online platform deploying an algorithmic recommender system would have to prominently list each system, describe its inputs and the weights used, and configure systems that use personal data by default to maximize one or more long-term user value metrics. It would take effect January 1, 2027. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY
Illinois's SB 3261, the Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act, would require large frontier developers (models trained with over 10^26 operations; $500 million revenue) and large chatbot providers ($25 million revenue; 1,000,000+ monthly users, likely accessed by minors) to publish safety plans, and frontier developers and large chatbot providers to report safety incidents to the Attorney General. Civil penalties up to $1,000,000 (large developers) or $50,000 (chatbot providers) per violation. Introduced February 3, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026 under Rule 3-9(a); not passed. Would take effect January 1, 2027.
SCH CD-TECHNOLOGY GUIDANCE
Illinois's SB 3492 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2-3.118b to the School Code. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education, in consultation with other relevant State agencies, may provide statewide guidance on workforce development curriculum or programming with best practices for teaching AI, quantum computing and other fast-growing technologies, and would have to prepare a review of other states' efforts. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY ACT
Illinois's SB 3548 (104th General Assembly) would create the Consumer Data Privacy Act, giving consumers rights to confirm whether personal data is processed, correct and delete it, obtain a copy, and opt out of targeted advertising, data sales or profiling. It would apply to persons controlling or processing data of at least 100,000 consumers, with Attorney General enforcement. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
HUMAN RIGHTS-AI-VIOLATIONS
Illinois's SB 3364 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for an owner, broker or agent to use AI in a real estate transaction without telling the other party, to fail to tell a loan or credit card applicant that AI processed the application, or to fail to disclose AI used to decide access to a place of public accommodation. Re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
AI DATA PRIVACY ACT
Illinois's SB 3180 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Data Privacy Act. Beginning January 1, 2027, a deployer would have to either (1) not let its AI train on a user's covered information and retain the training data indefinitely without first informing the user in writing and getting express written consent, or (2) set its AI by default not to train on that information unless the user is notified and affirmatively consents. The bill has private right of action provisions, and a violation would be an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
WARN ACT-AI LAYOFFS
Illinois' SB 3571 would amend the Illinois WARN Act so that an employer reporting the reason for a mass layoff or closing must disclose AI-related job impacts, including how many employees were laid off substantially due to replacement or automation by AI. Filed February 5, 2026, assigned to the Senate Executive Committee on February 17 and sent to its AI and Social Media panel; re-referred to Assignments on May 22, 2026 under Rule 3-9(a). It has not passed either house.
AI Provenance Data Act
Illinois's SB 3263 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Provenance Data Act. Covered AI tool providers (over 1,000,000 monthly visitors worldwide or users on average, publicly accessible in Illinois, generating or editing audio, video or image content) would have to offer a free provenance label reading tool and include a provenance label in content their AI creates. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
Companion AI Protection Act
Illinois's SB 3262 (104th General Assembly) would create the Companion Artificial Intelligence Protection Act. Operators of companion AI products could not deploy products with specified features unless an adult user configures them, would face auditing and reporting requirements, and would have to notify users they are talking to a companion AI and implement safeguards including a crisis intervention protocol. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
AI Safety Measures Act
Illinois's SB 3312 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act. Large frontier developers would have to adopt and publish a frontier AI framework covering catastrophic risk management, transparency and cybersecurity, and report critical safety incidents to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
AI Product Liability Act
Illinois's SB 3502 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Design Requirements Act, setting rules for product liability actions against AI developers for defective design, inadequate instructions or warnings, and breach of express warranty. A deployer would be treated as a developer if it makes a material and substantial change or intentionally misuses the product contrary to the express warranty. Re-referred to Senate Assignments May 22, 2026.
AI Companion Model Safety Act
Illinois's SB 3384 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Companion Model Safety Act. An operator could not provide an AI companion unless it has a protocol to take reasonable efforts to detect and address suicidal ideation or self-harm, and would have to notify users they are not communicating with a human. Civil penalties would go to the Statewide 9-8-8 Trust Fund. Re-referred to Senate Assignments May 22, 2026.
AGE-APPROPRIATE DESIGN CODE
Illinois' SB 3241 is mainly a children's online privacy and design-code bill. As introduced, it would require covered entities (for-profit businesses over set revenue or data thresholds) to complete data protection impact assessments for services reasonably likely to be accessed by children, including whether algorithms and targeted advertising systems could harm children, and would bar profiling a child by default. Introduced February 2, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
Educ-Tech Rts/Biometric Info
Illinois's SB 3735 (104th General Assembly) would create the Student Educational Technologies Rights Act, giving students and parents rights to opt out of school-issued devices and predictive analytics and to request human review of AI-generated grades. It would bar school districts from acquiring biometric systems for students and limit operators from letting AI train on student data. Re-referred to Senate Assignments May 22, 2026.
VEH CD-ALPR-RECORD RETENTION
Illinois's SB 3257 (104th General Assembly) would amend Section 2-130 of the Illinois Vehicle Code on automated license plate readers (ALPRs), redefining an ALPR as a camera or system using computer algorithms to convert plate images into searchable data. Law enforcement could retain detection records for 5 years, with archiving after 90 days. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
SURVEILLANCE DISCRIMINATION
Illinois's SB 2255 (104th General Assembly) would create the Surveillance-Based Price and Wage Discrimination Act. A person could not use surveillance data as part of an automated decision system to inform the individualized price charged to a consumer or the individualized wage paid to an employee. The Attorney General would enforce it. Re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY
Illinois's SB 3890 would create the Illinois Data Privacy Protection Act, giving consumers rights to access, correct, delete and port their data, to opt out of targeted advertising, sales and profiling used for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects, and to question the result of such profiling. It would also create a data broker registry and deletion mechanism. Filed February 6, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026; it has not passed either house.
CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY
Illinois's SB 3220 would create the Illinois Consumer Data Privacy Act, giving consumers rights to access, correct, delete and port their personal data and to opt out of targeted advertising, data sales and profiling used for decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. Controllers would have to run data protection impact assessments, including for risky profiling. The Attorney General would enforce it. Filed February 2, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026; it has not passed either house.
AI-Prescribing Medication
Illinois's SB 2993 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Medical Practice Act of 1987 to bar a licensee from allowing AI to prescribe medication unless the licensee keeps full control and responsibility for the prescription. It would set penalties and give the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation investigatory and rulemaking authority. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
CONSUMER FRAUD-AI DISCLOSURE
Illinois's SB 2995 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2MMMM to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. A person could not use AI in trade and commerce to communicate with a consumer in a way that may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer into thinking they are dealing with a human, unless clearly and conspicuously told otherwise; using AI to sell would require clear notice and an option to request more information; and a business using AI to communicate with consumers would have to offer the option to communicate with a human during ordinary business hours. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
Elec CD-AI Advert Disclosure
Illinois's SB 2996 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Election Code so that a qualified political advertisement generated in whole or substantially by AI must carry a clear and conspicuous statement saying so. It would provide exemptions and civil penalties, injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026, with Senate Committee Amendment No. 1.
Professional AI Oversight Act
Illinois's SB 3601 (104th General Assembly) would create the Professional AI Oversight Act, requiring a licensee to disclose when a paying person is interacting with AI, with civil penalties up to $2,500 per violation. It would also amend the Consumer Fraud Act to make undisclosed AI interactions in trade unlawful if the person asks. Re-referred to Senate Assignments May 22, 2026.
DCEO-AI Impact Study
Illinois's SB 2927 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code so the Department, in consultation with the Department of Labor, must conduct a comprehensive study of strategies to protect jobs at risk of loss due to AI. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
MARRIAGE ACT-EVIDENCE
Illinois's SB 3901 (104th General Assembly) would add subsection (c-5) to Section 105 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, requiring a court, notwithstanding any other law, to review evidence in proceedings under that Act under Supreme Court Rule 901 to evaluate whether proposed evidence may have been generated by AI. Last action: re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026.
REGISTERED NURSE USE OF AI
Illinois's SB 3702 would amend the Nurse Practice Act to bar AI systems from providing nursing services in place of a registered professional nurse in direct patient care, require a nurse to get patient consent before AI records or analyzes an encounter, and require written notice that AI supports but does not replace the nurse. Health care entities employing nurses and deploying AI in direct patient care would have to keep validation and bias monitoring records, train nurses, and not rely solely on AI for staffing, triage, admission, discharge or transfer decisions. Introduced February 5, 2026; re-referred to Assignments May 22, 2026 under Senate Rule 3-9(a); it has not passed either house.
No AI in Health Care Pricing
Illinois's SB 3027 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Fair Patient Billing Act to prohibit all hospitals from using artificial intelligence to set or influence health care pricing or billing, using the Illinois Human Rights Act definition of AI. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
AI Model Safety
Illinois's SB 3444 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act. A frontier AI model developer would not be liable for critical harms it did not intentionally or recklessly cause, if it publishes a safety and security protocol and transparency report on its website. Re-referred to Senate Assignments on May 22, 2026.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY
Illinois's HB 4705, the Artificial Intelligence Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act (as introduced), would require large frontier developers (revenue of at least $500,000,000) and large chatbot providers (revenue of at least $25,000,000, covered chatbots with 1,000,000+ monthly users) to publish a public safety and child protection plan and report safety incidents to the Attorney General within 15 days. Civil penalties up to $1,000,000 or $50,000 per violation. Introduced January 29, 2026; re-referred to Rules March 27, 2026; not passed.
$DCEO-AI WORKFORCE TRANSITION
Illinois's HB 5761 (104th General Assembly) would appropriate $150,000, or so much as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the expenses of the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition and the assessments required under the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition Act. Its Section 99 sets an effective date of July 1, 2026. Last action: referred to the House Rules Committee May 5, 2026.
AI WORK TRANSITION COMMISSION
Illinois's HB 5760 (104th General Assembly) would create the Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Workforce Transition Act. The Commission would direct State agencies to assess the actual and projected impact of generative and frontier AI systems on Illinois industries, occupations, regions and workers, and make recommendations on State and federal workforce, education, apprenticeship, unemployment insurance and income support programs. The Act would be repealed January 1, 2034. Last action: referred to the House Rules Committee May 5, 2026.
AGING-SCAM/ROBOCALLS INFO
Illinois's SB 3719 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 8.14 to the Illinois Act on the Aging, requiring the Department on Aging, in consultation with the Office of the Attorney General, to provide updated resources on scam calls and robocalls on its public website, including information on predatory scam calls that use AI to mislead the recipient and access to a scam call hotline. Last action: re-referred to Assignments April 24, 2026.
Human Control of AI Act
Illinois's HB 4980 (104th General Assembly) would create the Meaningful Human Control of Artificial Intelligence Act. Public employers and their contractors could not use or procure automated decision-making systems for specified functions without meaningful and continuing human review, and would have to run impact assessments at least every 2 years. It passed House committee as amended; re-referred to Rules April 17, 2026.
CONSUMER FRAUD-AI DECEPTION
Illinois's HB 3021 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2HHHH to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act making it an unlawful practice, whether or not a consumer is actually misled, to engage in a commercial transaction or trade practice with a consumer who is interacting with a chatbot, AI agent, avatar or similar conversational technology that may lead a reasonable consumer to believe they are talking to a human, unless the consumer is clearly and conspicuously told it is an AI system. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on April 17, 2026.
Registered Nurse Use of AI
Illinois's HB 4804 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Nurse Practice Act to set rules for registered nurses' use of AI, including a bar on substituting AI for nursing services, patient notice and confidentiality protections, and discipline for violations. Health care entities deploying AI in direct patient care would have to keep validation and bias monitoring records. Re-referred to Rules Committee on March 27, 2026.
Safe Autonomous Vehicle Act
Illinois's HB 1839 (104th General Assembly) would create the Safe Autonomous Vehicle Act. A motor vehicle manufacturer could start a safe autonomous vehicle project with an Automated Driving System after notifying the Secretary of State and self-certifying under certain conditions. The manufacturer would insure the fleet and assume liability when the system is at fault. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on March 27, 2026.
FRAUD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Illinois's HB 4988 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2MMMM to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The owner, licensee or operator of a generative AI system would have to conspicuously display on its user interface a warning about the limitations of generative AI; each day the warning is not displayed would be a separate violation and an unlawful practice. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
ALGORITHMICS PROHIBITED-RENT
Illinois's HB 1427 (104th General Assembly) would create the Prohibition of Algorithmics in Rent Act. In setting residential rent, including renewal changes, a landlord could not use, or cause another to use, an algorithmic device that uses, incorporates or was trained with nonpublic competitor data. A violation would be an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act. Re-referred to Rules March 27, 2026.
SURVEILLANCE-BASED PRICING
Illinois's HB 4985 would create the Surveillance-Based Price Discrimination Act, barring a person from using surveillance data as part of an automated decision system to inform the individualized price charged to a consumer. The Attorney General and aggrieved consumers could sue. Filed February 4, 2026; assigned to the Consumer Protection Committee March 18 and re-referred to the Rules Committee March 27, 2026; it has not passed either house.
AI-Assisted Therapy Research
Illinois's HB 5003 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act so that its prohibitions on unauthorized therapy services do not apply to AI-assisted therapy or psychotherapy provided exclusively within a qualified research program. Academic medical centers would have to register existing qualifying programs within 90 days. Re-referred to Rules Committee on March 27, 2026.
CHATBOT PROVIDER-LIABILITY
Illinois's HB 5044 (104th General Assembly) would create the Chatbot Provider Liability Act. Chatbots would be deemed products for strict liability, and a chatbot provider would have a duty to ensure its chatbot does not injure a user and would be liable for injuries it causes a user even if it used all reasonable care or did not distribute the chatbot directly. Harmed users could sue for damages, injunctive relief and attorney's fees. Re-referred to Rules March 27, 2026.
SURVEILLANCE-BASED WAGES
Illinois's HB 4987 (104th General Assembly) would create the Surveillance-Based Wage Discrimination Act. A person could not use surveillance data as part of an automated decision system to inform the individualized wage paid to an employee. The bill sets exemptions, Attorney General enforcement, private rights of action and penalties. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
SCH CD-AI Use in Educ Comm
Illinois's HB 5113 (104th General Assembly) would amend the School Code to require the State Board of Education to establish an Artificial-Intelligence Use in Education Commission. The Commission would collect information and make recommendations on best educational practices and policies for smartphone and AI use in schools. The provisions would be repealed January 1, 2030. Re-referred to Rules Committee on March 27, 2026.
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Illinois's HB 5220 (104th General Assembly) would add an Autonomous Vehicles Article to the Illinois Vehicle Code. It would set requirements for testing autonomous vehicles on public roads by a properly licensed driver, let the Secretary of State adopt rules, set manufacturer requirements, and prohibit certain acts by dealers and manufacturers. Re-referred to Rules March 27, 2026.
PROVENANCE DATA REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's HB 4711 (104th General Assembly) would create the Provenance Data Requirements Act. A generative AI tool provider would have to apply provenance data, directly or through third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic content its tool produces, and the bill would set additional requirements for large online platforms (1,000,000 or more unique monthly users) and capture device manufacturers. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
SCH CD-TECHNOLOGY GUIDANCE
Illinois's HB 4945 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2-3.118b to the School Code. Subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education, in consultation with other State agencies, may provide statewide guidance to school districts on workforce development curriculum or programming with best practices for teaching artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other fast-growing technologies. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
ALGORITHMIC PRICING DISCLOSURE
Illinois's HB 5323 (104th General Assembly) would require an entity that sets prices with personalized algorithmic pricing (dynamic pricing set by an algorithm using personal data) and advertises or offers it using the consumer's personal data to include the disclosure 'THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA'. A violation would be an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY ACT
Illinois's HB 5221 (104th General Assembly) would create the Consumer Data Privacy Act, with rules for agreements between personal data processors and controllers, controller responsibilities, small business requirements, data protection assessments and civil penalties. Consumers could opt out of processing for targeted advertising, sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of automated decisions with legal effects. It would take effect January 1, 2027. Re-referred to Rules March 27, 2026.
Biometric Surveillance Act
Illinois's HB 5521 (104th General Assembly) would create the Illinois Biometric Surveillance Act. Law enforcement agencies could not obtain, retain, possess, access, request or use a biometric identification system, including through a third party or another government agency. It would give a private right of action and Attorney General enforcement. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on March 27, 2026.
TRANSPARENCY IN DOWNCODING ACT
Illinois's HB 4735 (104th General Assembly) would create the Transparency in Downcoding Act for certain health insurance policies. A health insurance issuer could not use an automated process, system or tool to downcode a claim, or downcode based solely on reported diagnosis codes, and downcoding decisions would have to be made by a licensed physician. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
AI-Meaningful Human Review
Illinois's HB 3567 (104th General Assembly) would create the Meaningful Human Review of Artificial Intelligence Act. A State agency, or an entity acting for it, could not use an automated decision-making system for specified agency functions without continuous meaningful human review, and the agency would have to complete an impact assessment submitted to the Governor and General Assembly. Re-referred to Rules on March 27, 2026.
CONSUMER FRAUD-DIGITAL PRICING
Illinois's SB 3657 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act in two ways. Grocery stores offering digital coupons would have to provide a paper copy of equal value on request. A person also could not use surveillance-based price setting, or surveillance data in an automated decision system, to set individualized prices. Re-referred to Assignments March 27, 2026.
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE PILOT PROJ
Illinois' HB4663 would create the Autonomous Vehicle Pilot Project Act, letting authorized persons operate level 4 or 5 autonomous vehicles on public roads in pilot areas (counties of 1,000,000 or more, Sangamon County, and Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties), with the Act repealed January 1, 2029. Filed January 28, 2026; assigned to the House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee March 24, 2026 and re-referred to the Rules Committee March 27, 2026 under Rule 19(a). It has not passed either house.
ELEC CD-DECEPTIVE MATERIAL
Illinois's HB 1860 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person could not distribute, or agree to distribute, materially deceptive media within 90 days before an election if the person knows it falsely represents a depicted individual, intends to harm a candidate or otherwise deceive voters, and intends to change votes by deceiving electors, with that result reasonably likely. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
ELEC CD-DECEPTIVE MATERIAL
Illinois's HB 3303 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person could not distribute, or agree to distribute, materially deceptive media within 90 days before an election if the person knows it falsely represents a depicted individual, intends to harm a candidate and to change votes by deceiving electors, and both results are reasonably likely. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 27, 2026.
CTA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Illinois's SB 4070 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act to require the Chicago Transit Authority to set up a CTA Transit Police Department of sworn officers. It would also require a pilot of AI-based weapon-detection scanners at 5 to 10 stations and hubs and a limited facial recognition pilot. Referred to Assignments February 24, 2026.
ALGORITHMIC PRICING
Illinois's HB 4544 would create the Preventing Algorithmic Pricing Discrimination Act. Anyone who knowingly advertises personalized algorithmic pricing based on a person's consumer data would have to state that the price was set by an algorithm using the person's personal data, and pricing could not use protected class data to deny or vary offers. Filed January 22, 2026; referred to the House Rules Committee January 30, 2026 (co-sponsor added February 18, 2026); it has not passed either house.
CRIM CD-Deepfake-Harass
Illinois's HB 5106 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Criminal Code of 2012 so that a person commits harassment through electronic communications when he or she uses electronic communication to transmit a deepfake to any person with intent to harass. The bill would also define "deepfake". Referred to the House Rules Committee on February 10, 2026.
AI SAFETY MEASURES ACT
Illinois's HB 4799 (104th General Assembly) would create the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. Large frontier AI developers would have to adopt and publish a frontier AI framework covering catastrophic risk management, transparency and cybersecurity, and report critical safety incidents to the Attorney General, with civil penalties for noncompliance. It would also create a consortium to develop ILCompute, a public cloud computing resource. Referred to Rules February 6, 2026.
ALGORITHMIC PRICING DISCLOSURE
Illinois's HB 4717 (104th General Assembly) would require an entity that sets prices with personalized algorithmic pricing (dynamic pricing set by an algorithm using personal data) and advertises or offers it using the consumer's personal data to include the disclosure 'THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA'. A violation would be an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act. Referred to the House Rules Committee February 6, 2026.
PD365/ISBE-ARTIFICIAL INTEL
Illinois's SR 610 (104th General Assembly) is a Senate resolution that would support Illinois ASCD/PD365 principles on ethical and effective AI use in K-12 classrooms and urge the State Board of Education to develop statewide guidelines on student data, algorithmic transparency, bias monitoring and AI literacy. It does not change the law. Referred to Assignments February 5, 2026.
POLICE-FACIAL RECOGNITION ACT
Illinois's SB 3564 (104th General Assembly) would create the Facial Recognition Technology in Law Enforcement Act. Law enforcement agencies using facial recognition would have to conduct compliance audits, and the technology could not be used to analyze images of people engaged in constitutionally protected activity (absent reasonable suspicion of a crime), for real or live-time identification, or solely based on beliefs, lawful activities or protected characteristics. Referred to Assignments February 5, 2026.
PROCUREMENT-LOCAL GOV AI
Illinois's SB 2786 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Illinois Procurement Code to let the Department of Central Management Services enter a sole source contract with a specified contractor for a 6-month procurement modernization pilot. The pilot would run in no more than 7 municipalities of under 200,000 people to test AI applications. Referred to Assignments January 13, 2026.
COM COL-COURSE INSTRUCTOR-AI
Illinois' Public Act 104-0201 (HB 1859) adds Section 3-29.28 to the Public Community College Act. Each community college board must require that the faculty member who teaches a course meet the qualifications in 23 Ill. Adm. Code 1501.303(f) and any other applicable Illinois Community College Board rules, and a course may not use AI, in lieu of a faculty member, as the sole source of instruction for students. Faculty may still use AI to augment course instruction. AI has the meaning in Section 2-101 of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Approved August 15, 2025; effective January 1, 2026.
SCH CD-CYBER-BULLYING
Illinois' Public Act 104-0338 (HB 3851) amends the School Code's bullying prevention section (Section 27-23.7). Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, "cyber-bullying" also includes posting or distributing an unauthorized digital replica, meaning a digital replica of an individual used without the depicted individual's consent, by electronic means if it causes any of the harms in the bullying definition. "Digital replica" has its meaning in the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, which covers replicas made with AI or other technology. The act also lists posting or distributing sexually explicit images as a form of bullying. Approved August 15, 2025; effective July 1, 2026.
SCH CD-ASL IMPLEMENTATION
Illinois' Public Act 104-0399 (SB 1920) amends the School Code. New Section 2-3.118a requires the State Board of Education, with stakeholders, to develop and publish statewide guidance on AI in K-12 education by July 1, 2026, covering AI concepts, uses that preserve human relationships, bias, privacy, transparency, student-data privacy laws, AI literacy and special populations; the State Superintendent may convene an AI council. It also adds AI-created false depictions, including sexually explicit images and videos, to the recommended internet-safety topic on cyber-bullying. Its sign-language and educator-test parts do not involve AI. Approved August 15, 2025; effective January 1, 2026.
VEH CD-SAFETY ZONES
Illinois' Public Act 104-0381 (SB 1507) adds subsection (v) to the Vehicle Code's automated speed enforcement section (625 ILCS 5/11-208.8). The University of Illinois Chicago Urban Transportation Center must study North and South DuSable Lake Shore Drive, reviewing Chicago's multi-year crash data, research on how effective AI-powered cameras could be at improving compliance and reducing crashes and deaths, risky driving patterns, psychological deterrence of habitual speeding, and how AI cameras or alternatives could reduce fatalities. The act sets no deadline and does not authorize AI cameras. Approved August 15, 2025; effective January 1, 2026.
DIGITAL PROTECT-USE OF REPLICA
Illinois' Public Act 104-0282 (HB 3178) narrows Section 10 of the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act, which makes unenforceable a services-contract provision letting a digital replica of a person's voice or likeness replace work they would have done in person, if it lacks a reasonably specific description of intended uses and the person had neither a lawyer who negotiated the replica license nor a union contract covering replicas. The rule now applies only to new replica performances fixed on or after January 1, 2026, and not when uses fit the contract and the recording's fundamental character. Approved August 15, 2025; effective January 1, 2026.
THERAPY RESOURCES OVERSIGHT
Illinois' Public Act 104-0054 (HB 1806) creates the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act. No one may provide, advertise or offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public in Illinois, including through Internet-based AI, unless a licensed professional conducts them. Licensed professionals may use AI only for administrative and supplementary support, need written notice and consent for supplementary-support AI on recorded or transcribed sessions, and may not let AI make independent therapeutic decisions, communicate therapeutically with clients or detect emotions or mental states. Civil penalties up to $10,000 per violation. Approved and effective August 1, 2025.
SPORTS WAGERING-AI RESTRICTION
Illinois's SB 2398 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 25-63 to the Sports Wagering Act, providing that a sports wagering licensee may not use artificial intelligence to track an individual's sports wagers, to create an offer or promotion targeting a specific individual, or to create a gambling product such as a microbet. Last action: re-referred to Assignments June 2, 2025.
DOIT-AI TASK FORCE
Illinois's HB 3646 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Department of Innovation and Technology Act's Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Task Force. The engrossed bill would require at least 5 hybrid public meetings, one each in Chicago, Springfield, the Metro East, the Quad Cities and Southern Illinois. Passed the House 111-0 on April 11, 2025; re-referred to Senate Assignments June 2, 2025.
AI USE IN HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
Illinois's HB 35 (engrossed, with House Floor Amendment 1) would create the Artificial Intelligence Systems Use in Health Insurance Act. A health insurance issuer could not issue an adverse consumer outcome denying, reducing or terminating coverage or benefits that results solely from an AI system or predictive model, and denials, reductions or terminations resulting from AI would need meaningful review by a person able to override the AI. The Department of Insurance could review issuers' AI use. Passed the House 79-35 on April 9, 2025; re-referred to Senate Assignments June 2, 2025.
EMPLOYMENT-TECH
Illinois's HB 496 (104th General Assembly) would make a technical change to Section 1 (short title) of the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1). The House Executive Committee gave it a Do Pass recommendation (12-0-0) on March 12, 2025, but it was held on second reading and, on May 31, 2025, re-referred to the Rules Committee under Rule 19(a). The 104th General Assembly remains in session.
AI USE IN HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
Illinois's SB 1425 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Systems Use in Health Insurance Act. It would place an insurer's use of AI systems to make or support adverse determinations under Department of Insurance oversight, bar adverse outcomes (denial, reduction or termination of plans or benefits) that result solely from an AI system or predictive model, and require meaningful review by an individual with authority to override. Re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT
Illinois' SB 52 is a general consumer privacy bill. As introduced, the Privacy Rights Act would give consumers rights over their personal information and create a Privacy Protection Agency. Its AI-related parts are narrow: it defines profiling as automated processing of personal information, and directs the Attorney General to adopt rules on access and opt-out rights for automated decision-making technology and on risk assessments. Introduced January 13, 2025; re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025 and still pending.
AGE-APPROPRIATE DESIGN CODE
Illinois' SB 50 is mainly a children's online privacy and design-code bill. As introduced, it would require covered entities (for-profit businesses over set revenue or data thresholds) to complete data protection impact assessments for services reasonably likely to be accessed by children, including whether algorithms and targeted advertising systems could harm children, and would bar profiling a child by default. Introduced January 13, 2025; re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025 and still pending.
SCH CD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Illinois's HB 2503 (104th General Assembly) would amend the School Code to require the State Board of Education to establish a State Instructional Technology Advisory Board that guides and evaluates education technologies, including AI. With that board, the State Board would develop standards on safety, transparency, data privacy and educational quality for AI used in schools, plus guidance on AI use and AI literacy. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on April 11, 2025.
SCH CD-STUDENT BIOMETRIC INFO
Illinois's SB 1239 would amend the School Code to bar school districts from buying, acquiring, using or contracting for biometric systems, including facial recognition software, on students. Districts holding student biometric information would have to destroy it within 30 days after the Act takes effect. Filed January 24, 2025; re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025; it has not passed either house.
AGE-APPROPRIATE DESIGN CODE
Illinois' SB 51 is mainly a children's online privacy and design-code bill. As introduced, it would require a business whose online service, product, or feature is likely to be accessed by people under 18 to complete a data protection impact assessment, which must address whether the service's algorithms and targeted advertising systems could harm children, and would bar profiling a child by default. Attorney General enforcement only. Introduced January 13, 2025; re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025 and still pending.
EMPLOYMENT-TECH
Illinois's SB 456 (104th General Assembly) would make a technical change to Section 1 (short title) of the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1). The Senate Executive Committee gave it a Do Pass recommendation (11-0-0) on March 19, 2025, and it had second reading on March 20, 2025, but on April 11, 2025 it was re-referred to Assignments under Rule 3-9(a). The 104th General Assembly remains in session.
PROVENANCE DATA REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's SB 1929 (104th General Assembly) would create the Provenance Data Requirements Act. A generative AI tool provider would have to apply provenance data, directly or through third-party technology, to wholly generated synthetic content from its tool, and the bill would set further requirements for generative AI tool providers, large online platforms and capture device manufacturers. Last action: re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
FRAUD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Illinois's SB 1792 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 2HHHH to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. The owner, licensee, or operator of a generative AI system would have to conspicuously display a warning on the system's user interface, reasonably calculated to consistently apprise users that outputs may be inaccurate or inappropriate. A violation would be an unlawful practice. Last action: re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
ELEC CD-AI ADVERT DISCLOSURE
Illinois's SB 150 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 9-9.6 to the Election Code. A person, committee or other entity that creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement, meaning a paid ad about a candidate, election or ballot question containing an image, audio or video generated in whole or substantially by AI, would have to include a clear and conspicuous statement that it was AI-generated. Re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS
Illinois's SB 2203 (104th General Assembly) would create the Preventing Algorithmic Discrimination Act. On or before January 1, 2027, and annually after, a deployer of an automated decision tool would have to perform an impact assessment, notify people subject to consequential decisions, and keep a governance program. Re-referred to Assignments on April 11, 2025.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY
Illinois's HB 3506 (104th General Assembly) would create the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Protocol Act. As introduced, developers would publish a safety and security protocol, publish risk assessment reports at least every 90 days, and obtain an annual third-party compliance audit, with civil penalties. House Committee Amendment No. 1 narrows this to 'large developers' and adds whistleblower protections. Re-referred to Rules April 11, 2025.
SCH CD-TEACHER EVALUATION PLAN
Illinois's SB 1677 (104th General Assembly) would amend Section 24A-5 of the School Code to provide that a teacher evaluation plan shall prohibit an evaluator from using artificial intelligence tools to perform teacher evaluation tasks. Introduced February 5, 2025; on April 11, 2025 it was re-referred to the Senate Committee on Assignments under Rule 3-9(a).
CRIM CD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC
Illinois's SB 1554 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Criminal Code of 2012 (Sections 17-0.5 and 17-2) so that certain forms of false personation may be accomplished by artificial intelligence, and would add a definition of artificial intelligence. Assigned to the Senate Criminal Law Committee March 12, 2025; re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
EMPLOYMENT-TECH
Illinois's SB 971 (104th General Assembly) would make a technical change to Section 1 (short title) of the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1). The Senate Executive Committee gave it a Do Pass recommendation (11-0-0) on March 19, 2025, and it had second reading on March 20, 2025, but on April 11, 2025 it was re-referred to Assignments under Rule 3-9(a). The 104th General Assembly remains in session.
SCH CD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Illinois's SB 1556 (104th General Assembly) would amend the School Code to require the State Board of Education to establish a State Instructional Technology Advisory Board to provide guidance, integration, oversight and evaluation of education technologies, including AI. The State Board and Advisory Board would develop standards for safety, transparency, data privacy and educational quality for AI in schools. Effective immediately. Re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
HEALTH CARE GENERATIVE AI USE
Illinois's SB 2259 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 67 to the Medical Practice Act of 1987. A health facility, clinic, physician's office or group practice office that uses generative AI to produce written or verbal patient communications about clinical information would have to ensure the communications meet specified criteria; communications read and reviewed by a human licensed or certified provider would be exempt. Re-referred to Assignments April 11, 2025.
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). It defines "indistinguishable" (an ordinary viewer would conclude the image shows an actual child) and limits "purported child" to a depiction indistinguishable from an actual child under 18, rather than one that merely appears to depict a child. Related penalty provisions are conformed. Effective March 21, 2025.
OMA-AUTOMATED REQUEST
Illinois's HB 31 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Freedom of Information Act to define an "automated request" as one a public body reasonably believes was drafted with AI assistance or submitted without specific, affirmative human action. Public bodies would have to respond within 5 business days with notice, could charge for search and review costs, and the requester generally could not seek Public Access Counselor review. Re-referred to Rules March 21, 2025.
AI-MEANINGFUL HUMAN REVIEW
Illinois's HB 3720 (104th General Assembly) would create the Meaningful Human Review of Artificial Intelligence Act. A State agency, or an entity acting for one, would be prohibited from using an automated decision-making system for specified agency functions without continuous meaningful human review, and agencies seeking to use such a system would have to perform impact assessments and submit them to the Governor and General Assembly. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on March 21, 2025.
BD HIGHER ED-AI ED REPORT
Illinois's HB 2655 (104th General Assembly) would add Section 9.45 to the Board of Higher Education Act, requiring the Board, within 18 months after the amendatory Act takes effect, to report to the General Assembly on AI education and development at public and private institutions of higher education. The section would be repealed 2 years after the effective date. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee March 21, 2025.
BIPA-IDOT TESTING VEHICLES
Illinois's HB 2593 (104th General Assembly) would amend Section 25 of the Biometric Information Privacy Act to add that nothing in the Act applies to companies registered with the Department of Transportation to conduct testing of autonomous vehicles. Re-referred to the House Rules Committee on March 21, 2025; the 104th General Assembly remains in session.
AUTONOMOUS VEH REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's HB 3044 (104th General Assembly) would amend the Illinois Vehicle Code to require manufacturers to file automation documentation and a fee with IDOT before selling or operating an autonomous vehicle. Level 2 vehicles could be sold and registered, Level 3, 4 and 5 vehicles could not be sold or operated, and violations would carry penalties. Re-referred to Rules March 21, 2025.
AI PRINCIPLES
Illinois's HB 3529 (104th General Assembly) would create the Illinois High-Impact AI Governance Principles and Disclosure Act. The Department of Innovation and Technology would adopt rules to make businesses using AI systems comply with 5 principles of AI governance and publish a report on their websites. It would apply to businesses with 10 or more employees. Re-referred to Rules March 21, 2025.
BIPA-VEHICLE SAFETY TECH
Illinois's HB 3292 (104th General Assembly) would amend Sections 10 and 25 of the Biometric Information Privacy Act to provide that nothing in the Act may be construed to apply to an entity using vehicle safety technology for a vehicle safety purpose. Last action: Rule 19(a) re-referral to the House Rules Committee on March 21, 2025, after assignment to Judiciary - Civil.
USE OF AI BY STATE GOVERNMENT
Illinois' SB2117 would amend the Department of Innovation and Technology Act to expand the Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Task Force so that it also recommends policies for State agencies' procurement, deployment and use of generative AI, recommends prohibited agency uses, and assesses the effect of such use on State services. Filed February 7, 2025 and referred to the Senate Assignments Committee; it has not passed either house.
STATE GOVT AI ACT
Illinois' SB1366 would create the State Government AI Act. The Department of Innovation and Technology would have to adopt rules before January 1, 2028 on the development, procurement, deployment, use and assessment of AI by State agencies, and from January 1, 2028 agencies could not deploy or use AI unless those rules permit it. Filed January 29, 2025 and referred to the Senate Assignments Committee; it has not passed either house.
BIPA-VEHICLE SAFETY TECH
Illinois's SB 2051 (104th General Assembly) would amend Sections 10 and 25 of the Biometric Information Privacy Act to provide that nothing in the Act may be construed to apply to an entity using vehicle safety technology for a vehicle safety purpose. Filed February 6, 2025; last action: referred to the Senate Committee on Assignments that day.
Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Illinois's HB 2974 (104th General Assembly) would create the Illinois Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program Act. The Department of Transportation would lead a program for testing connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), with a State registration system for entities that want to run pilots or tests, and could suspend an entity's participation if there is clear evidence its technology is unsafe for public-road testing or violates program requirements. Referred to the House Rules Committee on February 6, 2025; it has not advanced since.
APA-SURVEY
Illinois' HB 1937 (Rep. Jed Davis) is a regulatory-reduction bill that mentions AI only as a permitted tool. As introduced, it would require the Auditor General to survey the Illinois Administrative Code for mandates and restrictions on the private sector and local governments and report within 2 years of the effective date, and would require State agencies to cut those mandates. The Auditor General, contractors, and agencies could use AI to do the counting. Introduced February 4, 2025; in Rules Committee.
CRIM CD-ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENC
Illinois's SB 2847 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Criminal Code of 2012 (720 ILCS 5/17-0.5 and 5/17-2) so that certain forms of false personation may be accomplished by artificial intelligence, and would have added a definition of "artificial intelligence". It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
PROTECT IMAGE-VOICE-LOOKS
Illinois's HB 5594 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the NO FAKES Act, giving each individual (and after death their heirs) a descendible, licensable property right to authorize use of their image, voice or visual likeness in a digital replica, enforceable by civil action with the greater of $5,000 per violation or actual damages. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
PROTECTS VOICE & IMAGES
Illinois's SB 3248 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the No AI FRAUD Act, giving every individual a property right in their own likeness and voice, with a private cause of action against anyone who, without consent, distributes a personalized cloning service or publishes an unauthorized digital voice replica or depiction. Damages would include $50,000 or $5,000 per violation (depending on the conduct) or actual damages plus attributable profits. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
PUBLICITY ACT-USE OF AI
Illinois's SB 3325 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Right of Publicity Act to give recording artists additional enforcement rights and remedies, make liable anyone who materially contributes to, induces or facilitates a violation after having reason to know of it, and define AI and generative AI. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee 7-0 but died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
ELEC CD-AI ADVERT DISCLOSURE
Illinois's SB 2762 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 9-9.6 to the Election Code. A person, committee or other entity that creates, originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement would have to include a clear and conspicuous statement that it was generated in whole or substantially by AI. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
AI USE IN GOVT CONTRACTS
Illinois's HB 5099 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 50-41 to the Illinois Procurement Code. A vendor contracting for government services, grants, or leases or purchases of software or hardware would have to disclose whether AI technology is, has been, or will be used in fulfilling the contract or in the goods or services purchased. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
AUTONOMOUS VEH REQUIREMENTS
Illinois's SB 1471 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Illinois Vehicle Code to require manufacturers to file automation-level documentation with the Department of Transportation before selling or operating an autonomous vehicle, allow Level 2 vehicles to be sold and registered, and prohibit Level 3, 4 and 5 vehicles. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
AI USE IN HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
Illinois's HB 5918 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Artificial Intelligence Systems Use in Health Insurance Act. An insurer could not issue an adverse consumer outcome (denial, reduction or termination of plans or benefits) resulting solely from an AI system or predictive model, and such decisions would need meaningful human review. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
STATE AGENCIES-AI SYSTEMS
Illinois's HB 4836 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 5-735 to the Civil Administrative Code so that State agency and State-funded AI systems must follow the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Agencies and entities deploying State-funded AI would have to submit NIST-based algorithmic impact assessments to the General Assembly, the Auditor General and the Department of Innovation and Technology. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
ALGORITHMICS PROHIBITED-RENT
Illinois's HB 5871 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Prohibition of Algorithmics in Rent Act. In setting residential rent, including a change on renewal, a landlord could not use or rely on, or cause another to use, an algorithmic device that uses, incorporates or was trained with nonpublic competitor data. A violation would be an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
ALGORITHMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENTS
Illinois's HB 5322 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Illinois Commercial Algorithmic Impact Assessments Act. By January 1, 2026, and annually after, deployers and developers of an automated decision tool would have to complete and document an impact assessment, and developers would have to give deployers documentation on intended uses and limitations. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
Autonomous Veh Requirements
Illinois's HB 2053 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Illinois Vehicle Code to require manufacturers to submit automation-level documentation and a filing fee to the Department of Transportation before selling or operating autonomous vehicles, and to prohibit sale or operation of Level 3, 4 or 5 vehicles. It stayed in the House and died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
AI USE IN GOVT CONTRACTS
Illinois's HB 5228 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 50-41 to the Illinois Procurement Code. A vendor contracting for government services, grants, or leases or purchases of software or hardware would have to disclose whether AI technology is, has been, or will be used in fulfilling the contract or in the goods or services purchased. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
ILLINOIS PRIVACY RIGHTS ACT
Illinois's HB 5581 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Illinois Privacy Rights Act, giving consumers rights to access, correct, delete and obtain a copy of their personal data and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or profiling in furtherance of solely automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. It would apply only to entities above specified consumer-data thresholds. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
DIGITAL LIKENESS PROTECTION
Illinois's SB 3705 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Digital Voice and Likeness Protection Act. A provision in a personal or professional services agreement would be unenforceable if it allows a digital replica of the individual's voice or likeness to replace work they would otherwise perform, does not clearly detail all uses, and the individual lacked counsel or union representation. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
CONSUMER FRAUD-AI DISCLOSURE
Illinois's HB 4869 (103rd General Assembly) would have added Section 2EEEE to the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. A person who, for a commercial purpose, makes, publishes or places an advertisement that the person knows or should have known contains synthetic media would have had to disclose that fact, and a violation would be an unlawful practice under the Act. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT
Illinois's HB 4763 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Digital Forgeries Act. A person depicted in AI-made audio or visual material (a "digital forgery") would have a cause of action against anyone who, without consent, knowingly distributes it, creates it with intent to distribute, or solicits its creation, to harass, extort, threaten or harm, with reckless disregard of harm, or to incite violence or interfere with an official proceeding. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
Education-Tech
Illinois's HB 299 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the School Code's bullying prevention provisions so that bullying includes posting or distributing sexually explicit images and, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, cyber-bullying includes distributing or posting a digital replica of an individual. It passed the House 112-0-0 on May 22, 2024, was referred to Senate Assignments, and was not passed before the session ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
VEH CD-LICENSE PLATE READERS
Illinois's SB 3320 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended Section 2-130 of the Illinois Vehicle Code on automated license plate readers (ALPR), which use computer algorithms to convert plate images into searchable data. It would have set retention and access limits on ALPR detections held by State law enforcement. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
DFPR-AI-MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
Illinois's HB 5649 (103rd General Assembly) would have made it an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud Act for a licensed mental health professional to provide mental health services through AI without first obtaining the patient's informed consent and disclosing the use of AI tools, with matching grounds for discipline in the professional licensing Acts. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
SCH CD-Digital Literacy Skills
Illinois's HB 4625 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the School Code to require school districts, with State Board of Education guidance, to give students developmentally appropriate digital literacy instruction beginning in elementary school, including digital citizenship, media literacy and AI literacy. It died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
IDPH-DIAGNOSTIC ALGORITHM
Illinois's HB 5115 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the University of Illinois Hospital Act, the Hospital Licensing Act and the Medical Patient Rights Act. Before using a diagnostic algorithm to diagnose a patient, a hospital would have to confirm it is certified by the Departments of Public Health and Innovation and Technology, is as or more accurate than other means, and is not the only diagnosis method available. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
SCH CD-BULLYING-DEEPFAKE
Illinois's HB 5848 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the School Code's bullying prevention section (105 ILCS 5/27-23.7) so that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, "cyber-bullying" includes distributing or posting a digital replica of an individual engaged in an activity the person did not engage in, including sexually explicit digitized depictions. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
ELEC CD-DECEPTION OR FORGERY
Illinois's SB 2983 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended Election Code Sections 29-4 and 29-18 so that "deception or forgery" in the offenses of preventing voting or candidate support, and conspiracy to do so, includes creating and distributing an AI-generated digital replica of an individual, or deceptive social media content, likely to dissuade voting. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
DOIT-AI TASK FORCE
Illinois's HB 5639 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended Section 1-80 of the Department of Innovation and Technology Act, which creates the Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Task Force, so that two members (rather than one) are appointed by the Speaker of the House, one of whom serves as a co-chairperson. It was not passed before the 103rd General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 7, 2025).
BIPA-SECURITY PURPOSES
Illinois's HB 5635 (103rd General Assembly) would have amended the Biometric Information Privacy Act to waive certain requirements for collecting biometric identifiers or information in circumstances relating to security purposes, exclude information captured by a biometric time clock or lock that converts it to a mathematical representation, and add a one-year filing period and a 30-day cure notice. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS
Illinois's HB 5116 (103rd General Assembly) would have created the Automated Decision Tools Act. On or before January 1, 2026, and annually after, a deployer of an automated decision tool would have to perform an impact assessment, notify people subject to a consequential decision, and keep a governance program to manage algorithmic discrimination risk. The Attorney General could sue. Died at Session Sine Die on January 7, 2025.
PUBLICITY ACT-USE OF AI
Illinois' Public Act 103-0836 (HB 4875) amends the Right of Publicity Act. A person may not knowingly distribute, transmit or make available to the general public a sound recording or audiovisual work with actual knowledge that it contains an unauthorized digital replica: an imitation of a real person's voice, image or likeness made with AI or other technology and used without consent. Facilitators with actual knowledge may also be liable, subject to a notice-and-takedown safe harbor for hosts and cloud providers. Artists' exclusive labels and exclusive distribution licensees may also enforce. News, commentary and parody uses are exempt. Approved August 9, 2024; effective January 1, 2025.
LIMIT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS USE
Illinois' Public Act 103-0804 (HB 3773) amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. It is a civil rights violation for an employer to use artificial intelligence that has the effect of subjecting employees to discrimination on the basis of protected classes in recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, or the terms, privileges or conditions of employment, or to use zip codes as a proxy for protected classes. Failing to notify employees that the employer uses AI for these purposes is also a violation; the Department of Human Rights must adopt rules on notice. Approved August 9, 2024; effective January 1, 2026.
SEXUAL EXPLICIT DIGITAL IMAGE
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. New Section 11-20.4 (obscene depiction of a purported child) covers obscene depictions, including computer-generated images or video, that appear to show a child under 18 whether or not a real child is shown: receiving or accessing is a Class 3 felony and disseminating a Class 1 felony. New Section 11-23.7 makes it a Class 4 felony to disseminate a "sexually explicit digitized depiction" of a person (realistically altered or computer-generated intimate parts or sexual activity). Related sentencing and registration provisions are updated. Effective January 1, 2025.
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 and used in place of work the individual would otherwise have performed in person, does not include a reasonably specific description of the intended uses, and the individual was represented by neither legal counsel nor a labor union as the act describes. It applies to agreements entered into after it took effect; Public Act 104-0282 narrowed it from January 1, 2026. Approved and effective August 9, 2024.
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). Its AI-related part covers algorithmic automated processes in utilization review: even when a plan or utilization review program uses one, only a clinical peer may make an adverse medical necessity determination or review an appeal. Programs using such processes must use objective, evidence-based criteria compliant with URAC or NCQA standards, set by board-certified physicians, and file proof with their registration. Approved July 19, 2024; effective January 1, 2025.
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. Its automated decision provision amends Section 85 of the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act (215 ILCS 134/85) on utilization review programs. Only a clinical peer may make adverse medical necessity determinations. A health care professional, an accredited algorithmic automated process, or both together may certify (approve) medical necessity in line with accreditation standards, and an automated process may be used to refer a case to a clinical peer for a possible denial. Effective January 1, 2025.
CIVIL LAW-TECH
This follow-up to Public Act 103-0294 amends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act (740 ILCS 190/5, 15). It defines a "digitally altered sexual image" as visual media created or substantially altered so that it would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be an authentic depiction of an individual, and covers a person whose face appears in such an image. It adds good-faith defenses, such as reporting or investigating unlawful conduct. Effective December 8, 2023.
DOIT-AI TASK FORCE
Illinois' Public Act 103-0451 (HB 3563) adds Section 1-80 to the Department of Innovation and Technology Act, directing the Department to establish the Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Task Force to investigate and report on generative AI and natural language processing software. Members include legislative appointees, education and technology officials, teachers, principals, cybersecurity and AI experts, business and labor representatives, and the Attorney General. It must hold at least 5 public meetings around the state and report to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2024. Approved and effective August 4, 2023.
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 person can sue anyone who disseminates, or threatens to disseminate, an intentionally digitally altered sexual image of them. Liability also reaches reckless disregard of whether the person consented. Disclosing that an image was digitally altered is not a defense. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATE GOVT-GENERAL MANDATES
Illinois' Public Act 103-0101 (HB 3902), the Drones as First Responders Act, amends the Freedom from Drone Surveillance Act to let police use drones for search and rescue, infrastructure inspections, demonstrations, dispatched emergency calls and some government-hosted events. Police may not use onboard facial recognition in flight and may run drone data through facial recognition only to counter a terrorist risk found by the Homeland Security Secretary or on reasonable suspicion that swift action is needed to prevent imminent harm, escape or evidence destruction. Drones may not be armed. It revises data retention and adds Attorney General enforcement. Approved and effective June 16, 2023.
SOS-FACIAL RECOGNITION INFO
Illinois' Public Act 102-0354 (SB 225) bars the Secretary of State from providing facial recognition search services, or photographs obtained in issuing driver's licenses, permits or state identification cards, to any federal, State or local law enforcement agency or other governmental entity for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws. The ban does not apply to requests for facial recognition searches or photographs whose purpose relates to criminal activity other than immigration violations. It amends the Illinois Identification Card Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Approved and effective August 13, 2021.
VIDEO INTERVIEW DEMOGRAPHIC
Illinois' Public Act 102-0047 (HB 53) adds Section 20 to the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act. An employer that relies solely upon an AI analysis of a video interview to decide whether an applicant gets an in-person interview must collect and report the race and ethnicity of applicants who are and are not given an in-person interview after the AI analysis, and of those hired. Reports go to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity by December 31 each year, covering the 12 months ending November 30; by July 1 each year the Department reports whether the data shows racial bias in AI use. Approved July 9, 2021; effective January 1, 2022.
EMPLOYMENT-TECH
Illinois's SB 2855 (101st General Assembly) would have made a technical change to Section 1 (short title) of the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1). Filed February 4, 2020 and referred to the Senate Committee on Assignments; it never advanced and died when the session ended with Session Sine Die on January 13, 2021.
EMPLOYMENT-TECH
Illinois's SB 2704 (101st General Assembly) would have amended the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42/1) only to make a technical change in the short title Section. It passed the Senate Executive Committee 16-0-0 on February 19, 2020 but was not passed by the Senate, and died at Session Sine Die on January 13, 2021.
ELECT CODE-DEEP FAKE VIDEO
Illinois' SB 3171 (101st General Assembly, 2019-2020) would have added Section 29-21 to the Election Code. A person would commit a Class A misdemeanor by creating a deep fake video, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, and causing it to be published or distributed within 30 days of an election. Introduced February 11, 2020 by Sen. Stadelman; it did not pass, and the session ended January 13, 2021 (Session Sine Die).
VIDEO INTERVIEW ACT
Illinois' Public Act 101-0260 (HB 2557) creates the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act. Employers that ask applicants to record video interviews and use AI analysis of them for Illinois-based positions must, before the interview, tell each applicant AI may be used to analyze it, explain how the AI works and what general types of characteristics it uses, and get the applicant's consent. Employers may not use AI to evaluate applicants who have not consented, may share videos only with those needed to evaluate the applicant, and must delete videos within 30 days of an applicant's request. Approved August 9, 2019; effective January 1, 2020.
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ACT
Illinois's SB 1432 (100th General Assembly), as introduced, would have created the Safe Autonomous Vehicle (SAVE) Act, letting a motor vehicle manufacturer start a safe autonomous vehicle project with automated driving system vehicles after notifying the Department of Motor Vehicles and self-certifying. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1, adopted in committee, replaced it with an Autonomous Vehicle Act. The bill was not passed before the 100th General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 9, 2019).
BIOMETRIC DATA-COMMERCIAL USE
Illinois's HB 4330 (100th General Assembly) would have amended Section 15 of the Biometric Information Privacy Act to bar a private entity from requiring a person or customer to provide a biometric identifier or biometric information as a condition of goods or services, except as needed for employer background checks or employee security protocols. It would not have applied to companies providing medical services, law enforcement agencies or governmental entities. It was not passed before the 100th General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 8, 2019).
BIOMETRIC DATA-COMMERCIAL USE
Illinois's HB 2411 (100th General Assembly) would have amended Section 15 of the Biometric Information Privacy Act to bar a private entity from requiring a person or customer to provide a biometric identifier or biometric information as a condition of goods or services, except as needed for employer background checks or employee security protocols. It would not have applied to companies providing medical services, law enforcement agencies or governmental entities. It was not passed before the 100th General Assembly ended (Session Sine Die, January 8, 2019).
SAFE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ACT
Illinois's HB 2747 (100th General Assembly, 2017-2018) would have created the Safe Autonomous Vehicle (SAVE) Act. A motor vehicle manufacturer could start a SAVE project after notifying the Department of Motor Vehicles and self-certifying that its automated driving system (ADS) fleet meets listed conditions. The manufacturer would insure the fleet and assume liability where the ADS is at fault. Operating an ADS vehicle without meeting the requirements would draw a $10,000 fine, and a second violation would be a Class A misdemeanor. The bill did not pass before the 100th General Assembly ended in January 2019.
VEH CD-AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
Illinois's HB 5192 (100th General Assembly) would have amended the Illinois Vehicle Code to define automated driving systems and autonomous vehicles (Levels 3 to 5), require the Secretary of State to create a unique registration plate for autonomous vehicles of 12,000 pounds or less, and require proof of insurance or a surety bond of $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 before registration. Filed February 15, 2018; died at Session Sine Die on January 8, 2019.
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