New AI laws 2027: state AI laws taking effect in 2027

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1159: Student personal information.

  Requires operators of websites, apps, and online services used for K-12, preschool, or higher education to protect student personal information and prohibits using student data to train artificial intelligence systems.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1405: Artificial intelligence: auditors: registration.

  Requires the Government Operations Agency to establish an enrollment mechanism for AI auditors by 1 January 2027, and prohibits unregistered AI auditors from conducting covered audits starting that date.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1609: Customer service chatbots.

  Requires large private businesses to disclose that customer service chatbots are artificial intelligence, prohibit representing them as human, and provide access to human agents within 15 minutes.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1651: State Bar of California: artificial intelligence.

  Requires the State Bar to disclose on its website and study materials the use of artificial intelligence-generated content in developing bar examinations and study materials beginning 1 January 2028.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1883: Workplace surveillance tools.

  Requires employers to stop using workplace surveillance tools with artificial intelligence that collect neural data, recognize emotional states, make inferences based on gait, or identify protected characteristics, with exceptions for federal defense and security purposes.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 1979: Health care services: artificial intelligence.

  Requires health care chatbots to comply with patient confidentiality rules and ensures licensed health care professionals retain independent judgment when using clinical decision support systems.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 2392: Public postsecondary education: generative artificial intelligence systems: procurement standards: training.

  Requires California Community Colleges and State University to create joint procurement standards and training for generative artificial intelligence systems by 1 January 2028, and provide annual training reviews.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 2504: Community colleges: artificial intelligence: pilot program.

  Requires the California Community Colleges Chancellor's office to establish a pilot program providing reskilling and upskilling opportunities for creative workers displaced by artificial intelligence at up to ten participating community college districts.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

  California AB 2713: California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.

  Requires large online platforms to detect system provenance data in content and allow users to inspect it through their interface, links, or downloadable formats, while prohibiting knowingly stripping such data.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1050: False advertising: synthetic performers.

  Requires persons creating advertisements that prominently feature synthetic performers to include clear and conspicuous disclosure that the advertisement includes a synthetic performer.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1111: Digital replicas.

  Expands civil liability for unauthorized use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness to include digital replicas and removes a presumption protecting employers.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1119: Companion chatbots: children's safety.

  Requires companion chatbot operators to annually assess child safety risks, implement protective measures, publish safety policies, and submit to independent audits starting 1 July 2027.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1159: Artificial intelligence: transparency and governance.

  Prohibits people from knowingly using artificial intelligence to falsely represent that a natural person engaged with governmental agencies, and excludes artificial intelligence systems from participating in state transparency and governance laws.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 1246: Autonomous vehicles.

  Requires autonomous vehicle manufacturers to maintain emergency communications capacity, employ US-based remote drivers with valid California licenses, immediately dispatch local technicians to accidents, and notify jurisdictions of fleet emergencies.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 503: Health care services: artificial intelligence.

  Requires developers and deployers of artificial intelligence systems supporting clinical decisions to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks of biased impacts, with annual reporting to the state department beginning 1 January 2027.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 574: Attorneys, arbitrators, judicial officers, and alternative resolution providers.

  Requires attorneys using generative artificial intelligence to protect confidential information, verify accuracy of outputs, and personally verify all citations in court filings, and prohibits arbitrators from delegating decisions to artificial intelligence without disclosing such use to parties.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 813: Independent verification organizations.

  The Business and Consumer Services Agency must establish by 1 July 2027 the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission to develop AI safety standards and designate independent verification organizations to assess AI system risks.

  Some duties start later: the text names an operative date.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 867: Toys: companion chatbots.

  Bans the manufacture, sale, exchange, and offering for sale of toys that include companion chatbots until 1 January 2031.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 947: Employment: automated decision systems.

  Beginning 1 July 2027, employers are prohibited from using automated decision systems to make certain employment decisions and must provide workers with data used and written notice when an automated system primarily drives discipline or termination decisions.

• 1 January 2027

  California SB 951: Employment: technological displacement: notice.

  Requires employers to give affected workers and state agencies 60 days' notice before laying off 50 or more workers due to artificial intelligence or automation replacing positions, and prohibits discharge without cause during the notice period.

• 1 January 2027

  Colorado SB 189: Automated Decision-Making Technology

  Requires developers of automated decision-making technology used in consequential decisions to provide deployers with technical documentation starting 1 January 2027, and grants consumers rights to notice, human review, and correction of inaccurate personal data.

  Earliest of several dates in this law.

• 1 January 2027

  Georgia SB 444: Private Review Agents; certain decisions with regard to the provision of insurance coverage for healthcare services shall not be based solely on artificial intelligence systems; provide

  Requires private review agents and utilization review entities to have a human clinical peer conduct reviews before issuing adverse coverage determinations, prohibiting artificial intelligence systems from making those decisions alone.

• 1 January 2027

  Rhode Island HB 7350: AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL LAW--GENERAL REGULATORY PROVISIONS -- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPANION MODELS

  Operators of AI companion models must include safety protocols addressing suicidal ideation and physical harm, notify users they are not speaking with humans, and file annual safety reports beginning 1 July 2027.

• 1 January 2027

  Tennessee SB 1700: Consumer Protection - As enacted, requires the Tennessee advisory commission on intergovernmental relations (TACIR) to conduct a study of the potential regulation of artificial intelligence systems and generative artificial intelligence chatbots in this state. - Amends TCA Title 29; Title 37 and Title 47.

  Requires operators of companion chatbots to prevent them from encouraging self-harm, offering mental health therapy without licensed supervision, or engaging in sexual interactions with minors.

• 1 January 2027

  Utah HB 276: Artificial Intelligence Modifications

  Requires generation services and covered platforms to obtain verified consent before distributing counterfeit intimate images and establishes civil liability for violations.

• 1 January 2027

  Utah SB 319: Health Insurance Preauthorization Amendments

  Requires insurers to post preauthorization requirements and statistics on their websites, disclose use of artificial intelligence in authorization reviews, and establish maximum timeframes and validity periods for authorizations.

• 1 January 2027

  Vermont S 69: An act relating to an age-appropriate design code

  Requires covered online businesses to comply with age-appropriate design standards when their services are reasonably likely to be accessed by minors under 18 years old.

• 1 January 2027

  Washington HB 2225: Concerning regulation of artificial intelligence companion chatbots.

  Requires operators of AI companion chatbots to disclose that the system is artificial, not human, and implement safeguards against sexually explicit content and manipulative engagement techniques targeting minors.

• 1 July 2027

  Georgia SB 540: Online Internet Safety; certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; require

  Requires operators of AI companion chatbots to disclose they are not natural persons, prevent deceptive claims to minors, restrict sexual content involving minors, and adopt protocols for detecting severe harm.

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