State AI law
Louisiana
AI laws
We track 33 artificial-intelligence bills and regulations in Louisiana. 13 have been signed or enacted, and 3 are still moving.
Last updated Oct 16, 2026 · How we collect and check bills
Where Louisiana’s bills stand
33 bills- Introduced
- 0
- In committee
- 0
- Passed a chamber
- 3
- Signed or enacted
- 13
- Dead or vetoed
- 17
Overview
How Louisiana regulates AI
Louisiana has 33 published AI-related bills in our register, 13 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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As of October 16, 2026, Louisiana has enacted 13 AI laws, according to AI Laws by State. That ties for 10th most among the 50 states and D.C.
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Louisiana AI bills
RSS feed for LouisianaProvides relative to unlawful conduct involving images of another person created by artificial intelligence (REF SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Louisiana's HB 119 (Act 782), the Ivy Daniels Act, makes it a crime to possess an AI-created video or image of a person under 17 who is nude or has intimate areas exposed, when the possessor knows or has reason to know they are not authorized to have it: up to five years, at least one without parole, probation or suspension. Unlawful dissemination or sale of AI-created images of another now carries up to one year, a fine up to $1,000, or both, or up to five years if the person depicted is under 17. Educators who victimize students may face an additional two years. Public schools must inform students in grade 6 and up and their parents yearly. Signed June 9, 2026; effective August 1, 2026.
Prohibits using artificial intelligence to create child sexual abuse materials. (8/1/26)
Act 892 updates Louisiana's child sexual abuse materials law (R.S. 14:81.1) to cover AI. A 'child' now includes an image or other visual representation created or generated by electronic or digital means, including AI, that a reasonable person would find virtually indistinguishable from a real child under 17. 'Produce' now includes causing such material to be digitally generated, including by AI, and the definition of the materials expressly covers computer-generated images and data stored electronically. Effective August 1, 2026.
Provides relative to the use of artificial intelligence in political campaigns
Louisiana's HB 459 (Act 806) bars making an electioneering communication portraying a candidate or an elected official subject to recall that AI was used to create, alter or digitally manipulate so it would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of their actual speech or conduct and to replace an individual's likeness with theirs, without a clear, understandable disclosure that it was made using AI. A violation intended to injure their reputation or deceive a voter carries a fine up to $2,000, up to two years in prison, or both. Media entities that broadcast paid ads they had no input in or control over are exempt. Signed June 9, 2026; effective August 1, 2026.
Requests the Legislative Youth Advisory Council to discuss artificial intelligence issues that may affect young people in Louisiana
Louisiana HR302 is a House resolution, not a law and it does not change the law. It urges the Legislative Youth Advisory Council, a body of 31 high school students under R.S. 24:973.1, to discuss artificial intelligence issues that may affect young people in Louisiana. The House adopted it June 1, 2026 (yeas 96, nays 0); as a simple resolution it needed no action by the Senate or the Governor.
COLLEGES/UNIVERSITIES: Provides for the crime of "unlawful deepfake" to be added to the definition of power-based violence under the Campus …
Louisiana's Act 497 widens the definition of power-based violence under the Campus Accountability and Safety Act to conduct meant to control, coerce, harm, exploit or intimidate someone on the basis of sex, including conduct banned by the state's laws on AI-generated or deepfake sexual imagery (R.S. 14:73.13 and 73.14). From fall 2026, each public college and university must give students information on power-based violence, campus safety and online threats at least four times a year, in person or online, and also to parents of minor students. Signed and effective May 29, 2026.
ELECTIONS/CAMPAIGNS: Requires disclosure of the use of artificial intelligence in telephone campaign communications
Louisiana's Act 559 requires a disclosure on campaign phone calls that use an AI-generated voice of a public figure. A telephone or automated call advocating for or against a candidate, elected official or ballot proposition that is created with AI using the voice of a public figure, including an elected official or limited public figure, must say clearly at the start that it was created using AI. Fines are up to $2,500, then $5,000 for later violations; the Board of Ethics enforces. Platforms, service providers and broadcasters aren't liable for others' content. Effective August 1, 2026.
SCHOOLS: Prohibits the use of deepfake material against students enrolled in K-12. (8/1/26)
Louisiana's SB 346 (Act 496) adds R.S. 17:416.14.1: no student, faculty member, administrative staff member or other employee at an elementary or secondary school may use material considered a deepfake against a K-12 student with the intent to coerce, harass, intimidate, or maliciously disseminate or sell the material. A deepfake is audio or visual media made or altered to falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of an individual's speech or conduct, or that swaps in another's likeness. BESE, with the Department of Education, must adopt rules to implement it. Signed May 29, 2026; effective August 1, 2026.
Establishes requirements for health insurance issuers using artificial intelligence or automated decision systems. (8/1/26)
Louisiana's SB246 would have set rules for health insurers, pharmacy benefit managers and independent review organizations that use AI or automated decision systems in utilization review: no use that denies, delays or modifies care, adverse determinations signed by a physician who reviewed the record, disclosure of AI use, and a presumption that AI-influenced adverse decisions are invalid on appeal. The Senate withdrew it from its files May 28, 2026, so it died.
Prohibits using a child's image to train artificial intelligence to produce child sexual abuse materials. (8/1/26)
Louisiana's SB 110 (Act 211) makes it a violation of the child sexual abuse materials law (R.S. 14:81.1) to use an image of a child who was under 17 when the image was created with the intent to train an artificial intelligence model to produce child sexual abuse materials. It also provides that the child depicted in the materials need not be a natural person, and lets the trier of fact use the existing age factors to decide whether an image used to train an AI model depicts a person who appears to be under 17. Signed May 14, 2026; effective August 1, 2026.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from Artificial Intelligence Risk Act. (1/1/27)
Louisiana's SB 474, the Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from Artificial Intelligence Risk Act, would have required developers of frontier AI models (trained with more than 10^26 operations) to publish transparency reports and report critical safety incidents, and would have required large frontier developers (over $500 million annual revenue) to publish a safety framework, obtain audits and certify compliance. The Attorney General could seek up to $1,000,000 per first violation. It passed no chamber: it was returned to the Senate calendar subject to call on April 21, 2026 and died.
Prohibits public contracts with entities owned or controlled by foreign adversaries for the provision of artificial intelligence technology …
Louisiana's HB1184 would have barred public bodies from executing, entering into or extending, starting July 1, 2027, contracts that procure artificial intelligence technology, software or products unless the vendor signs an affidavit that it is not owned or controlled by, organized in, or based in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea or Cuba. It would have covered higher education, school materials, the legislature, public bid contracts and state procurement. It was referred to House Appropriations April 1, 2026 and died.
Creates a consumer bill of rights regarding artificial intelligence
Not law. HB 734 would have created a Louisiana AI bill of rights. Companion chatbot platforms would have needed a parent's consent for minors' accounts, with parental controls and self-harm alerts, AI disclosures and hourly break reminders for minors, and safeguards against material harmful to minors. Any bot would have had to show an hourly pop-up saying the user is not talking to a human. It also would have barred AI companies from selling personal data unless deidentified, banned commercial use of AI-generated likenesses without consent, and limited state AI contracts with entities tied to foreign countries of concern. It was withdrawn on March 30, 2026.
Provides for consumer protection practices for customers engaging with artificial intelligence (OR SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
Louisiana's HB425 would have made it an unfair or deceptive trade practice for any person to let a Louisiana consumer interact with a chatbot, AI agent or avatar that could make a reasonable person think it is human without telling them clearly and conspicuously that it is an automated system. It was referred to House Commerce March 9, 2026 and never advanced, so it died with the 2026 regular session.
Provides for the regulation of mental health chatbots that use artificial intelligence technology. (gov sig)
Louisiana's SB5 would have required operators of AI mental health chatbots to disclose clearly that the chatbot is AI and not a human, to maintain protocols for suicidal ideation, self-harm and harm to others, and not to sell or share users' identifiable health information. It would also have restricted advertising in chatbot conversations. The Attorney General could seek fines up to $10,000 per violation after a 45-day cure notice. It stayed in Senate Health and Welfare and died.
Provides relative to the regulation of artificial intelligence (OR +$256,243 GF EX See Note)
Louisiana's HB791, the People's A.I. Act, would have regulated AI chatbot providers: consent before processing personal data or training on chat logs, no selling chat logs, a ban on using chat logs for ads, notices that the user is talking to a chatbot, monthly risk assessments, and treating chatbots as products for liability. The Attorney General or a district attorney could enforce and users could sue. It was referred to House Commerce March 9, 2026 and died.
LABOR: Provides relative to the use of automated decision systems with respect to employment decisions (OR INCREASE GF EX See Note)
Louisiana's HB 421 would have regulated employers' use of automated decision systems in employment decisions: written notice to workers at least 30 days before first use, bans on facial, gait and emotion recognition, no sole reliance on an automated system for discipline, termination or deactivation, human review, and worker appeals. Louisiana Works could cite violators ($500 civil penalty) and workers could sue. It was referred to committee March 9, 2026 and died.
Establishes a cause of action for misuse of artificial intelligence
Louisiana's HB157 would have made it a violation of the state's identity-misappropriation law to use AI to generate an audiovisual work of a person's identity (name, voice, likeness or digital replica) for a commercial purpose without prior consent. Violators could be liable for the greater of $1,000 or actual damages plus disgorgement of profits, with injunctions and discretionary attorney fees. It was referred to House Civil Law and Procedure March 9, 2026 and died.
Prohibits the development of artificial intelligence systems with certain capabilities involving interactions with minors (OR SEE FISC NOTE …
Louisiana's HB295, the Guidelines for User Age-Verification and Responsible Dialogue Act, would have made it a crime to knowingly or recklessly design, develop or deploy an AI chatbot able to solicit sexual conduct from minors, send them sexual images, or encourage suicide, self-injury or violence (up to 1 year and $100,000). It would also have required age verification, AI-companion bans for minors and recurring AI disclosures. It was referred to House Commerce March 9, 2026 and died.
Provides that surveillance-based price discrimination is an unfair or deceptive trade practice or act. (8/1/26)
Louisiana's SB362 would have made 'surveillance-based price discrimination' an unfair or deceptive trade practice, so that no person could engage in it. The bill defines surveillance data, behaviors and biometrics, mentions automated decision systems, and exempts cost-based price differences, equal-terms discounts and credit refusals based on a Fair Credit Reporting Act report. It was considered in committee April 22, 2026 and died.
Provides relative to prohibiting surveillance-based price discrimination
Louisiana's HB471 would have made 'surveillance-based price discrimination' an unfair or deceptive trade practice, so that no person could engage in it. It defines surveillance data, behaviors, biometrics and automated decision systems, and exempts cost-justified price differences, certain equal-terms discounts and refusals based on a Fair Credit Reporting Act consumer report. It was considered in House Commerce April 22, 2026 and died. A Senate bill on the same subject, SB362, also died.
Creates the Louisiana Artificial Intelligence Insurance Fairness Act (OR +$1,029,533 SG EX See Note)
Louisiana's HB880, the Louisiana Artificial Intelligence Insurance Fairness Act, would have regulated insurers that use algorithmic decision systems in homeowners, commercial property and casualty, auto, health or life insurance: annual independent disparate-impact audits, prohibited variables, human review of claims decisions, AI disclosures, and a right to explanation. Penalties would run up to $250,000 per violation and consumers could sue. It was considered in House Insurance April 23, 2026 and died.
Creates a subcommittee of the House of Representatives to study artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cryptocurrency
Louisiana's HR 317 is a House resolution, adopted as amended 90-0 on June 10, 2025. Despite its short title, the adopted text does not create a subcommittee: it urges and requests the House Committee on Commerce to study the impact of artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency on the state, hold its first meeting by September 1, 2025, hold public hearings that specifically seek advice from AI, blockchain and cryptocurrency professionals, and submit a written report of findings and recommendations by February 1, 2026. As a resolution of one chamber, it does not change the law.
Requests the state Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Board of Regents, and postsecondary e…
Louisiana's HR 320 is a House resolution, adopted 88-0 on June 10, 2025, that urges and requests the state Department of Education, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Board of Regents and the postsecondary education management boards to promote AI education for students and to encourage professional development on AI for faculty and staff. It encourages schools and districts to evaluate and adopt flexible AI learning solutions such as pre-packaged curriculum modules and online certifications. As a resolution of one chamber, it does not change the law.
Provides for the continuous revision of the Code of Civil Procedure
Louisiana's HB 178 (Act 250 of 2025) revises the Code of Civil Procedure. Article 371 now requires attorneys to exercise reasonable diligence in authenticating evidence that may be false or artificially manipulated. Article 1551 adds pretrial rules: a party with reasonable suspicion that an opponent's exhibits are falsified, including generated by artificial intelligence or altered by any means, must raise it at the pretrial conference or a pretrial admissibility hearing, and a party that knows or has reason to know its own exhibits were falsified or AI-generated must disclose it. Demonstrative exhibits are excluded. Signed June 11, 2025; effective August 1, 2025.
Memorializes the United States Congress to take action relative to the use of artificial intelligence in health care
Louisiana's HR 313 is a House resolution, adopted 94-0 on June 10, 2025, that memorializes the United States Congress to act immediately to keep physicians in full control of medical decisions with AI as a support tool rather than a replacement, set nationwide standards for AI in health care (patient safety, data privacy, the doctor-patient relationship), monitor AI's effects on care and outcomes, promote transparency in AI algorithms, and develop ethical guidelines. Copies go to Congress's presiding officers and Louisiana's congressional delegation. As a resolution of one chamber, it does not change the law.
Provides for a joint legislative committee to study regulations regarding artificial intelligence
Louisiana's HCR 66 is a concurrent resolution, adopted by the House 85-0 on May 9 and the Senate 35-0 on May 29, 2024, that requests the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity to study and make recommendations on the use and regulation of artificial intelligence. It cites risks in education, criminal justice evidence, finance, health care and revenue collection, and possible benefits for state government. The committee is to actively solicit data and testimony and report policy recommendations to the legislature annually. A concurrent resolution does not change the law.
Creates the crime of unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another created by artificial intelligence. (8/1/24) (EN SEE FISC NOTE LF E…
Louisiana's SB 6 (Act 142 of 2024) created the crime of unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another created by artificial intelligence (R.S. 14:73.14), making it unlawful for any person, "with the intent to coerce, harass, intimidate, or maliciously disseminate or sell any video or still image created by artificial intelligence" that depicts another person totally nude or exposing the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast, knowing or having reason to know they are not authorized to. As enacted: up to six months, up to $750, or both; Act 782 of 2026 raised the penalties from August 1, 2026. Signed May 22, 2024; effective August 1, 2024.
Criminalizes deepfakes involving minors and defines the rights to digital image and likeness.
Louisiana's SB 175 (Act 457 of 2023) adds R.S. 14:73.13, the crime of unlawful deepfakes. Creating or possessing material that uses deepfake technology to depict a minor engaging in sexual conduct is punishable by 5 to 20 years at hard labor (five without parole) or a fine up to $10,000, or both. Advertising, distributing, exhibiting, exchanging, promoting or selling sexually explicit deepfake material of a person without consent is punishable by 10 to 30 years or a $50,000 fine, or both, with at least 10 years served if a minor is depicted. Newsworthy, satirical and clearly disclosed works are excluded. Effective August 1, 2023.
Requests the Joint Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity to study the impact of artificial intelligence in operations, procurement, and …
Louisiana's SCR 49 is a concurrent resolution, adopted by the Senate 35-0 on May 26 and the House 99-0 on June 7, 2023, that urges and requests the Joint Legislative Committee on Technology and Cybersecurity to study the impact of AI on operations, procurement and policy and to research advancing technology to keep state agencies' policies, processes and systems current. Its written report, with recommendations and specific legislative proposals, was due to the House and Senate commerce committees 60 days before the 2024 Regular Session. A concurrent resolution does not change the law.
Provides for the Allen Toussaint Legacy Act.
Louisiana's SB 426 (Act 425 of 2022), the Allen Toussaint Legacy Act, gives each person a transferable property right in their identity, including name, voice, likeness and digital replica. A digital replica is a computer-generated reproduction of a performer's likeness or voice indistinguishable from the real one. Using a person's identity for commercial purposes without consent is a violation, and so is using a digital replica in a scripted audiovisual work or live dramatic performance to create the clear impression that the performer is actually performing a role. Remedies include the greater of $1,000 or actual damages, profits and injunctions. Effective August 1, 2022.
Provides relative to low speed autonomous motor vehicles.
Louisiana's SB 453 (Act 268 of 2022) adds R.S. 32:378.4. Autonomous vehicles are not required to have equipment related to supporting a human driver, and equipment is not required if it is not necessary for automated driving. This lets driverless vehicle designs without steering wheels, pedals or similar human controls operate under Louisiana's vehicle equipment rules. Signed June 3, 2022; effective August 1, 2022.
Requests a study of the use of facial recognition data by law enforcement
Louisiana's HR 199 is a House resolution, adopted 65-30 on June 10, 2021, that requests the House Committees on Administration of Criminal Justice and on Judiciary to jointly study law enforcement's use of facial recognition data, how it is obtained, and its use in investigations and legal proceedings, taking information from groups including the Department of Justice, police and sheriffs' associations, the ACLU and the NAACP. Their report, due February 1, 2022, was to include search, arrest and conviction statistics and recommendations on legislation to safeguard due process, privacy and civil liberties. As a resolution of one chamber, it does not change the law.
Provides relative to autonomous commercial motor vehicles
Louisiana's HB 455 (Act 232 of 2019) adds R.S. 32:400.1 to 400.5 on autonomous commercial motor vehicles, meaning vehicles of 26,001 pounds or more used in commerce and equipped with an automated driving system. Such vehicles may operate without a conventional human driver on board if they comply with federal law and state traffic laws (including railroad crossings), are registered and titled, are certified to federal motor vehicle safety standards and can reach a minimal risk condition if the system fails. The Department of Transportation and Development is the sole agency with jurisdiction. Signed June 11, 2019; effective August 1, 2019.
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