AI Law Deadlines 2026

Warehouse employers; required disclosures and recordkeeping, civil penalties.

SCHOOLS: Prohibits the use of deepfake material against students enrolled in K-12. (8/1/26)

Provides that surveillance-based price discrimination is an unfair or deceptive trade practice or act. (8/1/26)

Establishes the transitional wage insurance program under which the department of labor provides temporary supplemental payments to eligible individuals who accept new employment at a lower wage than their prior employment.

SB 1455 - The act establishes the "Guidelines for User Age-Verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2026" or the "GUARD Act". The act provides that it shall be unlawful to design, develop, or make available an artificial intelligence chatbot knowing or with reckless disregard that the chatbot poses certain risks of soliciting minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct or encouraging minors to create or transmit any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct. Any person who violates this provision shall be fined not more than $100,000 per offense. It shall be unlawful to design, develop, or make available an artificial intelligence chatbot knowing or with reckless disregard that the chatbot encourages, promotes, or coerces suicide, self-injury, or imminent physical or sexual violence. Any person who violates this provision shall be fined not more than $100,000 per offense. A covered entity, as defined in the act, shall require each individual accessing a chatbot to make a user account in order to use the chatbot. For any chatbot that exists as of August 28, 2026, a covered entity shall freeze the account, require the user to provide age data to restore the account, and using the age data classify each user as a minor or an adult. At the time an individual creates a new user account to interact with a chatbot, a covered entity shall request age data from the individual, verify the individual's age using a reasonable age verification process, and classify each user as a minor or an adult using the age data. A covered entity shall periodically review previously verified user accounts using a reasonable age verification process. A covered entity may contract with a third party to employ reasonable age verification measures as part of the age verification process, as described in the act. A covered entity shall establish reasonable measures to protect personal data as described in the act. Each artificial intelligence chatbot shall at the start of each conversation with a user at 30-minute intervals disclose to the user that the chatbot is artificial intelligence and not a human being and be programmed to ensure that the chatbot does not claim to be a human being. The chatbot shall not represent that the chatbot is a licensed professional, as described in the act, or that the chatbot provides certain professional services, as described in the act. If the age verification process determines that an individual is a minor, a covered entity shall prohibit the minor from accessing any chatbot made available by the covered entity. The Attorney General may bring a civil action for violations of the act. Relief is described in the act. The act is identical to HB 2032 (2026). JULIA SHEVELEVA

Prohibits use and sale of algorithmic devices that set sale price of goods or services.

Establishes "Fair Price Protection Act."

Health care plans; to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in determinations of coverage

Law-enforcement agencies & sheriff's dept.; policy on use of covered artificial intelligence syst.

Establishes "Fair Pricing and Transparency Act."

Provides for the use of automated employment decision-making tools and artificial intelligence systems by a county, city, town, village, school district, board of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension board, district corporation, the state university of New York, the city university of New York, or community college; amends the effectiveness thereof.

SCH CD-AI USE IN EDUC COMM

"Mississippi Human Capital Supplemental Tax Act"; create.

Trade: business regulation; availability of companion chatbots to minors; prohibit. Creates new act.

Establishing the Kansas community harmed by AI technology act, mandating user accounts and age verification for AI chatbot access, classifying users by age, requiring parental consent for minors, blocking explicit content, protecting age information confidentiality, monitoring for suicidal ideation, informing users of AI interaction, requiring compliance guidance by 2027, outlining enforcement under consumer protection laws and providing safe harbor for compliant entities.

COMPANION AI PROTECTION ACT

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY

AI COMPANION MODEL SAFETY ACT

Conversational Artificial Intelligence Service Operator Requirements

Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"; requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems or services to post certain information on the developer's website regarding video, audio, text and data from a covered publication used to train the generative artificial intelligence system or service; allows journalism providers to bring an action for damages or injunctive relief against developers.

AUTOMATED DECISION TOOLS

Relates to transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence models

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: Creates the Protecting Louisiana's Infrastructure from Artificial Intelligence Risk Act. (1/1/27)

Concerning regulation of artificial intelligence companion chatbots.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY

Income tax: credits: commercial production.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAFETY

BETTER SOCIAL MEDIA FEEDS ACT

AI PROVENANCE DATA ACT

California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data: inspection.

CONSUMER DATA PRIVACY ACT

AI DATA PRIVACY ACT

Artificial Intelligence Modifications

PROFESSIONAL AI OVERSIGHT ACT

SCH CD-AI USE IN EDUC COMM

AI COMPANION MODEL SAFETY ACT

COMPANION AI PROTECTION ACT

PROFESSIONAL AI OVERSIGHT ACT

Public contracts: automated decision systems: procurement standards.

California Cybersecurity Integration Center: artificial intelligence.

Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence consumer protection act", in relation to preventing the use of artificial intelligence algorithms to discriminate against protected classes.

Informing users when content is developed or modified by artificial intelligence.

State contracts: certification process: Sweatfree AI Code of Conduct.

Community colleges: artificial intelligence: pilot program.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – Adds to existing law to establish the Conversational AI Safety Act.

Fostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act; established.

High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies, report.

AN ACT relating to data privacy.

Fostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act; established.

Companion chatbots: children’s safety.

High-risk artificial intelligence; development, deployment, and use by public bodies, report.

Consumer Data Protection Act; social media platforms & model operators, interoperability interfaces.

A bill for an act establishing requirements and guidelines for conversational AI services, and providing civil penalties, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SSB 3011.)

Relating To Artificial Intelligence Literacy Education.

Data brokers; regulation, civil penalties.

State Bar of California: artificial intelligence.

Companion chatbots: crisis interruption pauses.

Relating To The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Health Care.

School Safety Firearm Detection Software Pilot Program; established.

Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technology & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory.

Requires certain political communications to include provenance data for all audios, images or videos used in such communications; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.

Law-enforcement agencies; use of certain technologies & interrogation practices; forensic laboratory