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July 2026
Right of publicity, digital replicas and voice cloning, and noncompete agreements.
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July 2026 brought modest activity in intellectual property legislation, with five bills changing stage across three states. Hawaii led with two enactments addressing intimate image disclosure and artificial intelligence. California advanced two bills through committee, both concerning synthetic performers and digital replicas. Pennsylvania passed one bill through a chamber restricting noncompete agreements in broadcast employment.
| Measure | Bills |
|---|---|
| Matched to this Tracker | 350 |
| Signed into law in 2026 | 25 |
| New this month | 1 |
| Moved a stage | 5 |
| Passed a chamber | 3 |
| Signed into law this month | 2 |
| Vetoed this month | 0 |
| State | Bills that moved |
|---|---|
| CA | 2 |
| HI | 2 |
| PA | 1 |
July 2026 brought modest activity in intellectual property legislation, with five bills changing stage across three states. Hawaii led with two enactments addressing intimate image disclosure and artificial intelligence. California advanced two bills through committee, both concerning synthetic performers and digital replicas. Pennsylvania passed one bill through a chamber restricting noncompete agreements in broadcast employment.
| State | Bill | Title | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | SB 7026 | OGSR/Trade Secret Held by an Agency Companion: FL SPB 7026 | 23 April 2026 |
| FL | HB 679 | Registration of Trademarks Companion: FL SB 696 | 14 April 2026 |
| HI | HB 2137 | RELATING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Signed this month | 14 July 2026 |
| Addresses artificial intelligence. Enacted. | |||
| HI | HB 1682 | RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INTIMATE IMAGES. Signed this month | 7 July 2026 |
| Addresses disclosure requirements for intimate images. Enacted. | |||
| IA | HF 2254 † | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions. | 2 June 2026 |
| LA | HB 513 † | ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the name, image, and likeness of intercollegiate and interscholastic athletes (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note) | 8 June 2026 |
| LA | HB 315 † | CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete contracts or agreements for interns and apprentices | 15 May 2026 |
| MD | SB 8 | Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations Companion: MD HB 184 | 12 May 2026 |
| MD | HB 1016 | Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Licensed Architects - Employer Workforce Relocation and Out-of-State Employers | 28 April 2026 |
| ME | LD 2200 | An Act To Prohibit Noncompete Clauses For Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State | 15 April 2026 |
| NH | SB 402 † | eliminating certain non-compete agreements for physician associates. | 12 May 2026 |
| OH | HB 184 | Prescribe limitations on intercollegiate athlete contracts | 20 March 2026 |
| RI | HB 8060 | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- IMPERSONATION AND IDENTITY FRAUD Companion: RI SB 3338 | 23 June 2026 |
| RI | SB 3338 | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- IMPERSONATION AND IDENTITY FRAUD | 23 June 2026 |
| SD | SB 41 | revise a provision related to criminal invasions of privacy, prohibit the creation and distribution of digitally fabricated material of an identifiable individual, and provide penalties therefor. | 30 March 2026 |
| SD | HB 1180 | ensure the validity of non-compete agreements in the context of jointly owned business entities. | 12 March 2026 |
| UT | SB 256 | Identity Protection Modifications | 26 March 2026 |
| UT | SB 111 | Veterinary Post-employment Amendments | 17 March 2026 |
| VA | HB 581 | Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages, statute of limitations. | 13 April 2026 |
| VA | SB 170 † | Protection of employees; covenants not to compete, discharged employees. | 13 April 2026 |
| VA | SB 753 | Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages, statute of limitations. | 13 April 2026 |
| WA | HB 1155 | Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements. Companion: WA SB 5437 | 23 March 2026 |
| WA | SB 5886 | Concerning forged digital likenesses. | 16 March 2026 |
| WI | AB 1034 | Relating to: name, image, and likeness rights for University of Wisconsin System student athletes; maintenance costs for University of Wisconsin–Madison intercollegiate athletic facilities; and making an appropriation. (FE) Companion: WI SB 1075 | 9 April 2026 |
| WI | AB 884 | Relating to: who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film production services credit. Companion: WI SB 880 | 2 April 2026 |
No bill in this Tracker is currently awaiting a governor's signature.
| State | Bill | Title | Current status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PA | HB 2558 † | An Act prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in broadcast employment agreements. | Passed chamber | 1 July 2026 |
| Prohibits enforcement of noncompete clauses in broadcast employment agreements. Passed one chamber. | ||||
| State | Bill | Title | Current status | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | SB 1050 | False advertising: synthetic performers. | Enacted | 1 July 2026 |
| Addresses false advertising involving synthetic performers. Reported out of committee. | ||||
| CA | SB 1111 | Digital replicas. | Enacted | 1 July 2026 |
| Concerns digital replicas. Reported out of committee. | ||||
| State | Bill | Title | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|
| MI | HB 6206 † | Higher education: other; name, image, and likeness contract regulations; provide for. Amends 2020 PA 366 (MCL 390.1731 - 390.1741) by adding sec. 6a. | In committee |
| Type | Document | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Proposed Rule | Exemptions To Permit Circumvention of Access Controls on Copyrighted Works Library of Congress, Copyright Office, Library of Congress DMCA circumvention exemptions rulemaking affects regulated parties' obligations regarding access controls on copyrighted works. | Comments close 28 September 2026 |
| State | Bill | Title | Current status |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA | HB 2558 † | An Act prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in broadcast employment agreements. | Passed chamber |
| State | Bill | Title | Current status | Last action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AK | HB 240 | An Act requiring school districts to adopt a digital harassment and nonconsensual digital impersonation policy; and providing for an effective date. | In committee | 16 March 2026 |
| AK | HB 47 | An Act relating to distribution of a forged digital likeness; relating to crime and criminal procedure; relating to distribution of a generated sexual depiction; relating to generated obscene child sexual abuse material; relating to teaching certificates; relating to licensing of school bus drivers; relating to civil penalties for an organization that facilitates the generation of child sexual abuse material; relating to social media and minors; and providing for an effective date. | Dead | 13 April 2026 |
| AK | SB 111 | An Act relating to the diagnosis, maintenance, and repair of consumer products that use digital electronics to operate; adding an unlawful act to the Alaska Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act; and providing for an effective date. Companion: AK HB 162 | Passed chamber | 17 May 2026 |
| AL | HB 170 | Social media content; trust required for certain minors who are performers or featured in social media content, calculation of compensation and designation of trustee for trust provided for, procedure for adult to request removal of social media content featuring themselves as a minor required for social media companies, cause of action created against certain individuals who fail to comply with trust and social media content requirements | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| AL | HB 240 | Income Tax; to exempt compensation earned by a student athlete for the use of their name, image, or likeness from income tax | In committee | 11 February 2025 |
| AL | HB 327 | Consumer protection; production of digital replicas of voice or visual likenesses, prohibited for commercial use unless licensed, procedures established, private right of action authorized | In committee | 19 February 2026 |
| AL | HB 340 | High School athletics, right to compensation for name, image, and likeness | In committee | 27 January 2026 |
| AL | HB 489 | High school athletics, student athletes permitted to receive compensation for name, image, or likeness, subject to restrictions | In committee | 1 April 2025 |
| AL | HB 490 | Alabama Sports Wagering Control Act; licensure of sports wagering activities provided for; student athlete compensation for name, image, and likeness provided for | In committee | 1 April 2025 |
| AR | HB 1071 | TO AMEND THE FRANK BROYLES PUBLICITY RIGHTS PROTECTION ACT OF 2016; AND TO PROVIDE PROTECTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL WHOSE PHOTOGRAPH, VOICE, OR LIKENESS IS REPRODUCED THROUGH MEANS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND USED COMMERCIALLY. | Enacted | 26 February 2025 |
| AR | HB 1823 | TO ESTABLISH THE DISRUPT EXPLICIT FORGED IMAGES AND NONCONSENSUAL EDITS ACT OF 2025; AND TO CLARIFY THE RIGHTS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AFFECTED BY NONCONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES INVOLVING INTIMATE DIGITAL FORGERIES. | In committee | 5 May 2025 |
| AR | HB 1917 | TO AMEND THE ARKANSAS STUDENT-ATHLETE PUBLICITY RIGHTS ACT; AND TO AMEND THE LAW RELATED TO ATHLETIC PROGRAM FUNDING. | Enacted | 17 April 2025 |
| AZ | HB 2192 | video content; minors; employment; compensation | Passed chamber | 20 April 2026 |
| AZ | HB 2361 † | employers; contracts; noncompete clause; prohibition | In committee | 21 January 2026 |
| AZ | HB 2391 | vloggers; minors; compensation; trust accounts | In committee | 21 January 2026 |
| AZ | HB 2589 † | employers; contracts; noncompete clause; prohibition | In committee | 28 January 2025 |
| AZ | SB 1295 | fraudulent voice recordings | Enacted | 13 May 2025 |
| AZ | SB 1615 | student athletes; employment status; restrictions | Enacted | 7 May 2025 |
| AZ | SB 1786 | artificial intelligence; content verification | Passed chamber | 5 May 2026 |
| CA | AB 2416 | Privacy: use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness. | Introduced | 21 February 2026 |
| CA | AB 412 | Generative artificial intelligence: training data: copyrighted materials. | Dead | 13 August 2026 |
| CA | AJR 33 | Intellectual property enforcement: Priority Foreign Countries. | Introduced | 10 June 2026 |
| CA | SB 1050 | False advertising: synthetic performers. | Enacted | 16 September 2026 |
| CA | SB 11 | Artificial intelligence technology. | Vetoed | 2 March 2026 |
| CA | SB 1111 | Digital replicas. | Enacted | 30 September 2026 |
| CA | SB 1142 | Digital Dignity Act. | Passed committee | 14 May 2026 |
| CA | SB 1146 | Advertisement claims: health-related consumer products and services: digital replicas and synthetic performers. | Passed chamber | 13 August 2026 |
| CA | SB 683 | Privacy: use of a person's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness: injunctive relief. | Enacted | 10 October 2025 |
| CO | HB 1049 | Prohibit Use of Personally Identifying Feature | Introduced | 12 February 2026 |
| CO | HB 25-1041 † | Student Athlete Name Image or Likeness | Enacted | 28 March 2025 |
| CO | SB 25-083 | Limitations on Restrictive Employment Agreements | Enacted | 3 June 2025 |
| CO | SB 25-288 | Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal & Civil Actions | Enacted | 2 June 2025 |
| CT | HB 5492 † | AN ACT CONCERNING LIMITATIONS ON THE USE ON NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS. | Passed committee | 2 April 2026 |
| CT | HB 7196 † | AN ACT CONCERNING LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS. | Passed committee | 14 May 2025 |
| CT | SB 1440 † | AN ACT CONCERNING UNLAWFUL DISSEMINATION OF AN INTIMATE SYNTHETICALLY CREATED IMAGE. | Passed committee | 23 April 2025 |
| CT | SB 208 † | AN ACT PROHIBITING THE UNAUTHORIZED DISSEMINATION OF SYNTHETIC INTIMATE IMAGES OF ANOTHER PERSON. | In committee | 8 January 2025 |
| CT | SB 344 † | AN ACT PROTECTING CHILDREN'S SAFETY BY REQUIRING AFFIRMATIVE CONSENT BY A PARENT OR GUARDIAN FOR THE USE OF A CHILD'S LIKENESS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. | Passed committee | 17 March 2026 |
| CT | SB 348 † | AN ACT CONCERNING UNLAWFUL DISSEMINATION OF INTIMATE IMAGES THAT ARE DIGITALLY ALTERED OR CREATED THROUGH THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. | In committee | 9 January 2025 |
| CT | SB 354 † | AN ACT ELIMINATING PROHIBITIONS ON NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS. | In committee | 9 January 2025 |
| CT | SB 355 † | AN ACT CONCERNING LIMITATIONS ON THE USE OF NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS. | Passed committee | 13 April 2026 |
| FL | HB 1395 | Artificial Intelligence | Dead | 13 March 2026 |
| FL | HB 679 | Registration of Trademarks Companion: FL SB 696 | Enacted | 15 April 2026 |
| FL | HB 7017 | OGSR/Trade Secrets | Passed committee | 9 March 2026 |
| FL | HB 981 | Athlete Representation and Compensation | Dead | 16 June 2025 |
| FL | SB 230 | Transparency in Insurance Matters | Dead | 13 March 2026 |
| FL | SB 476 | Registration and Protection of Trademarks | Dead | 6 January 2026 |
| FL | SB 7026 | OGSR/Trade Secret Held by an Agency Companion: FL SPB 7026 | Enacted | 24 April 2026 |
| FL | SB 752 | Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses | Dead | 16 June 2025 |
| FL | SB 922 | Employment Agreements | In committee | 24 April 2025 |
| GA | HB 1399 | Georgia Likeness, Expression, Generative AI, and Commercial Yield (LEGACY) Act; enact | In committee | 24 February 2026 |
| GA | HB 1603 | Georgia Entertainment Artificial Intelligence Accountability and Performer Protection Act; enact | In committee | 31 March 2026 |
| GA | HB 418 | Georgia Child Performer Empowerment and Protection Act; enact | In committee | 18 February 2025 |
| GA | HB 566 | NO FAKES Act of 2025; enact | Passed committee | 25 February 2026 |
| GA | HR 592 | House Study Committee on Noncompete Clauses in Physician Contracts; create | Passed committee | 19 February 2026 |
| GA | SB 354 | Torts; cause of action for appropriating an individual's indicia of identity; provide | In committee | 25 March 2025 |
| GA | SB 559 | "Fair Business Practices Act of 1975"; any person from facilitating noncompete agreements between residential rental property owners or managers, including by use of algorithmic coordinating functions; prohibit | In committee | 25 February 2026 |
| GA | SB 71 | Income Taxes; taxable net income compensation of athletes for the use of the athlete's name, image, or likeness; exempt | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| HI | HB 1682 | RELATING TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INTIMATE IMAGES. | Enacted | 7 July 2026 |
| HI | HB 2137 | RELATING TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. | Enacted | 14 July 2026 |
| HI | HB 2384 | RELATING TO STUDENT-ATHLETE COMPENSATION. | Passed chamber | 10 March 2026 |
| HI | HB 2607 † | RELATING TO PUBLICITY RIGHTS. | In committee | 6 February 2026 |
| HI | SB 1156 | RELATING TO DEEPFAKES. | In committee | 8 December 2025 |
| HI | SB 1156 | RELATING TO DEEPFAKES. | In committee | 7 February 2025 |
| HI | SB 1161 | RELATING TO NON-COMPETE CLAUSES. | In committee | 27 January 2025 |
| HI | SB 1161 | RELATING TO NON-COMPETE CLAUSES. | In committee | 8 December 2025 |
| HI | SB 2076 | RELATING TO PUBLICITY RIGHTS. | Passed chamber | 6 February 2026 |
| HI | SB 3261 | RELATING TO ATHLETE AGENTS. | Passed chamber | 19 February 2026 |
| HI | SB 3263 | RELATING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII. | Passed chamber | 8 May 2026 |
| IA | HF 2072 | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions. | Dead | 2 March 2026 |
| IA | HF 2254 † | A bill for an act relating to the prohibition of noncompete clauses in certain employment contracts entered into by the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics, and including effective date provisions. | Enacted | 2 June 2026 |
| IA | HF 406 | A bill for an act relating to restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence, and creating a civil cause of action. | Passed committee | 5 March 2025 |
| IA | HF 628 | A bill for an act relating to compensation and name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes at postsecondary educational institutions, providing remedies, and including applicability provisions. | In committee | 5 March 2025 |
| IA | SF 2199 | A bill for an act relating to the ownership of artificial intelligence output and trained artificial intelligence. | Passed committee | 19 March 2026 |
| IA | SF 380 | A bill for an act relating to prohibitions on noncompete covenants involving nurses and including applicability provisions. | In committee | 24 February 2025 |
| ID | H 486 | COVENANTS NOT TO COMPETE – Repeals and adds to existing law to provide that covenants not to compete shall be void and unenforceable except in certain situations. | Introduced | 3 April 2025 |
| IL | HB 3178 | DIGITAL PROTECT-USE OF REPLICA | Enacted | 15 August 2025 |
| IL | HB 5106 | CRIM CD-DEEPFAKE-HARASS | Introduced | 10 February 2026 |
| IL | SB 3263 | AI PROVENANCE DATA ACT | In committee | 22 May 2026 |
| IN | HB 1054 † | Plumbing noncompete agreements. | In committee | 5 December 2025 |
| IN | HB 1625 † | Prohibition on noncompete agreements. | In committee | 21 January 2025 |
| IN | SB 132 † | Restriction on noncompete agreements. | In committee | 20 January 2026 |
| IN | SB 475 † | Physician noncompete agreements. | Enacted | 6 May 2025 |
| KS | HB 2650 † | Requiring that noncompete agreements be reasonable and providing that such agreements are null and void upon the sale or change in ownership or control of an employer. | Dead | 10 April 2026 |
| KS | HB 2772 † | Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors; enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses; enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions. | Dead | 10 April 2026 |
| KS | HB 2800 | Prohibiting postsecondary educational institutions from using or commingling state moneys or student fees to compensate a collegiate student athlete for the use of the athlete's name, image, likeness rights or athletic reputation. | Dead | 10 April 2026 |
| KS | SB 499 | Enacting the Kansas age-appropriate design code act to require businesses to assess and mitigate risks of compulsive use in minors, enacting the Kansas stopping likeness abuse by nonconsensual digital replicas act to create a private right of action for the unauthorized digital replication and distribution of individuals' digital likenesses and enacting the Kansas saving human connection act to prohibit deceptive practices and ensure transparency in chatbot interactions. | Dead | 10 April 2026 |
| KS | SB 504 | Enacting the Kansas healthcare professional employment mobility and patient access act to prohibit post-employment noncompete agreements. | Dead | 10 April 2026 |
| KY | HB 21 | AN ACT relating to privacy protection. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| KY | HB 318 | AN ACT relating to property rights in name, voice, and likeness. | In committee | 20 January 2026 |
| KY | HB 594 | AN ACT relating to prohibited employment agreements. | In committee | 26 February 2025 |
| KY | HB 63 | AN ACT relating to privacy protection. | In committee | 14 January 2026 |
| KY | HB 690 | AN ACT relating to contracts. | In committee | 26 February 2025 |
| KY | HB 813 | AN ACT relating to contracts. | In committee | 9 March 2026 |
| KY | SB 234 | AN ACT relating to non-compete clauses. | In committee | 20 February 2025 |
| KY | SB 3 | AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency. | Enacted | 13 March 2025 |
| KY | SB 7 | AN ACT relating to property rights to the use of an individual's image. | Passed chamber | 6 March 2025 |
| LA | HB 157 | TRADEMARKS/TRADE NAMES: Establishes a cause of action for misuse of artificial intelligence | In committee | 9 March 2026 |
| LA | HB 166 | TAX/INCOME TAX: Authorizes an individual income tax deduction for compensation earned by certain intercollegiate athletes for use of their name, image, or likeness (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note) | In committee | 14 April 2025 |
| LA | HB 168 | TAX/INCOME TAX: Authorizes income tax deductions for income earned by an intercollegiate athlete and compensation paid by a taxpayer for use of an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness (OR DECREASE GF RV See Note) | In committee | 14 April 2025 |
| LA | HB 315 † | CONTRACTS: Provides relative to noncompete contracts or agreements for interns and apprentices | Enacted | 15 May 2026 |
| LA | HB 513 † | ATHLETICS: Provides relative to the name, image, and likeness of intercollegiate and interscholastic athletes (EN NO IMPACT GF EX See Note) | Enacted | 8 June 2026 |
| LA | HB 734 | COMMERCE: Creates a consumer bill of rights regarding artificial intelligence | In committee | 30 March 2026 |
| LA | SB 120 | AMUSEMENTS/SPORTS: Provides relative to intercollegiate athletes at a postsecondary education institution. (gov sig) (OR SEE FISC NOTE SG EX) | In committee | 9 March 2026 |
| LA | SB 297 | INSURANCE RATES: Provides a process for insurers to assert the right to prevent public inspection of certain filing information based on a claim of trade secret. (8/1/26) | In committee | 9 March 2026 |
| MA | H 1102 | An Act protecting the use of bank names, trade names and trademarks in electronic communications Companion: MA HD 1995 | Passed committee | 12 February 2026 |
| MA | H 1614 | An Act relative to stop fraudulent representation of business against performers Companion: MA HD 1389 | In committee | 26 March 2026 |
| MA | H 1615 | An Act preventing an individual’s image and voice from exploitation Companion: MA HD 3987 | In committee | 26 March 2026 |
| MA | H 1751 | An Act concerning a right of publicity Companion: MA HD 3026 | In committee | 26 March 2026 |
| MA | H 1930 | An Act empowering student-athletes through NIL rights Companion: MA HD 1789 | In committee | 26 March 2026 |
| MA | H 2118 † | An Act relative to noncompetition agreements in the Commonwealth | Passed committee | 16 March 2026 |
| MA | H 2170 | An Act relating to protecting the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs Companion: MA HD 4048, MA S 144, MA SD 1722 | Passed committee | 22 December 2025 |
| MA | H 4832 | An Act relative to the contracting of digital replicas | Passed committee | 20 January 2026 |
| MA | H 74 | An Act relative to the contracting of digital replicas Companion: MA HD 3986 | In committee | 24 December 2025 |
| MA | HD 2111 † | An Act relative to noncompetition agreements in the Commonwealth | Introduced | - |
| MA | HD 3668 | An Act relative to the digital Coogan law | Introduced | - |
| MA | S 1336 † | An Act relative to banning noncompetition agreements in the Commonwealth | Passed committee | 22 December 2025 |
| MA | S 1366 † | An Act relative to non-compete agreements for veterinarians Companion: MA SD 1954 | Passed committee | 22 December 2025 |
| MA | S 32 | Resolve relative to digital impersonation and exploitation Companion: MA SD 324 | In committee | 9 October 2025 |
| MA | SD 895 † | An Act relative to banning noncompetition agreements in the Commonwealth | Introduced | - |
| MD | HB 1016 | Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Licensed Architects - Employer Workforce Relocation and Out-of-State Employers | Enacted | 28 April 2026 |
| MD | HB 1288 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Provisions Companion: MD SB 658 | In committee | 26 February 2025 |
| MD | HB 1331 | Consumer Protection - Artificial Intelligence | In committee | 7 February 2025 |
| MD | HB 1407 | Commercial Law - Voice and Visual Likeness - Digital Replication Rights (Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act - NO FAKES Act) Companion: MD SB 1025 | In committee | 7 February 2025 |
| MD | HB 1515 | Labor and Employment - Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Employer Relocation | Dead | 9 March 2026 |
| MD | HB 1528 | Task Force to Study Student Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Programs in Maryland - Establishment | In committee | 10 March 2025 |
| MD | HB 663 | Civil Actions - Sexual Deepfake Representations and Revenge Porn | In committee | 17 February 2025 |
| MD | HB 955 | Forged Digital Likenesses - Distribution - Prohibition Companion: MD SB 362 | Dead | 17 February 2025 |
| MD | SB 8 | Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations Companion: MD HB 184 | Enacted | 12 May 2026 |
| MD | SB 900 | Noncompete and Conflict of Interest Clauses - Licensed Architects - Employer Workforce Relocation and Out-of-State Employers | Passed chamber | 11 April 2026 |
| ME | LD 2200 | An Act To Prohibit Noncompete Clauses For Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State | Enacted | 15 April 2026 |
| ME | LD 732 | An Act To Prohibit Copyrights For Works Of State Government | Dead | 28 May 2025 |
| MI | HB 4040 | Labor: fair employment practices; certain noncompete agreements; prohibit employers from requiring employees to enter into unless certain conditions are met. Amends sec. 4a of 1984 PA 274 (MCL 445.774a). | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| MI | HB 4514 | Labor: fair employment practices; certain noncompete agreements for physicians; prohibit. Amends sec. 4a of 1984 PA 274 (MCL 445.774a). | In committee | 22 May 2025 |
| MI | HB 4643 | Higher education: other; requirements regarding compensation of college athletes; modify. Amends title & secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 of 2020 PA 366 (MCL 390.1731 et seq.); adds secs. 7a, 8a, 12 & 13 & repeals secs. 9 & 11 of 2020 PA 366 (MCL 390.1739 & 390.1741). | In committee | 17 June 2025 |
| MI | HB 6119 | Labor: fair employment practices; certain noncompete agreements for physicians; prohibit. Amends sec. 4a of 1984 PA 274 (MCL 445.774a). | In committee | 23 June 2026 |
| MI | HB 6150 † | Trade: business regulation; use of an individual's name, likeness, voice, or image for purposes of trade; prohibit under certain circumstances. Creates new act. | In committee | 1 July 2026 |
| MI | HB 6206 † | Higher education: other; name, image, and likeness contract regulations; provide for. Amends 2020 PA 366 (MCL 390.1731 - 390.1741) by adding sec. 6a. | In committee | 14 July 2026 |
| MI | SB 1017 | Higher education: other; name, image, and likeness contract regulations; provide for. Amends 2020 PA 366 (MCL 390.1731 - 390.1741) by adding sec. 6a. | In committee | 4 June 2026 |
| MN | HF 4078 | Cause of action established for misappropriation of an individual's name, likeness, or voice. | In committee | 9 March 2026 |
| MO | HB 1326 † | Establishes standards in regard to covenants not to compete | In committee | 15 May 2025 |
| MO | HB 1747 † | Allows a person to bring a cause of action against another person or entity for damages for failing to state certain content is generated or modified using artificial intelligence | Passed committee | 9 April 2026 |
| MO | HB 1818 | Creates provisions relating to regulation of online content involving minors Companion: MO HB 2733 | Passed committee | 14 May 2026 |
| MO | HB 2184 † | Prohibits noncompete clauses in physician employment contracts Companion: MO HB 2821 | In committee | 15 May 2026 |
| MO | HB 2361 | Establishes provisions relating to altered sexual depictions | Passed committee | 26 February 2026 |
| MO | HB 2862 | Prohibits digital impersonation of a person and provides for injunctive relief | Passed committee | 26 February 2026 |
| MO | HB 3427 † | Establishes standards in regards to covenants not to compete | In committee | 15 May 2026 |
| MO | HB 362 | Creates the offense of and civil penalties for disclosure of intimate digital depictions | Passed committee | 23 April 2025 |
| MO | HB 448 † | Prohibits noncompete clauses in physician employment contracts | In committee | 15 May 2025 |
| MO | SB 1117 | SB 1117 - This act establishes "The Taylor Swift Act" which establishes a cause of action against a person who discloses a digital depiction, as defined in this act, of an individual who is under eighteen years of age or an intimate digital depiction, as defined in this act, of an individual and who knows or recklessly disregards the fact that the individual has not consented to such disclosure as provided in the act. The depicted individual may recover damages as described in the act along with injunctive relief. An action shall not be brought if the disclosure was made in good faith to or by a law enforcement officer in the course of reporting or investigating unlawful conduct or as part of a legal proceeding. Additionally, an action shall not be brought if the disclosure was a matter of legitimate public concern or interest or if the disclosure reasonably intended to assist the depicted individual. This act provides that a person commits the offense of disclosure of a digital depiction if the person discloses, or threatens to disclose: (1) A digital depiction of an individual who is under eighteen years of age; or (2) An intimate digital depiction with the intent to harass, annoy, threaten, alarm, or cause substantial harm to the finances or reputation of the depicted individual or with the actual knowledge that or reckless disregard for whether such disclosure or threat of disclosure will cause harm to the depicted individual. Any such person shall be guilty of a class E felony for the first offense or a class C felony for any second and subsequent offenses or if the actions could reasonably be expected to affect the conduct of governmental proceedings or facilitate violence. Furthermore, it shall not be a defense to civil or criminal actions brought pursuant to this act that there is a disclaimer stating that the digital depiction was unauthorized or that the depicted individual did not participate in the creation or development of the digital depiction. Lastly, a provider of an interactive computer service shall not be held civilly or criminally liable under this act for actions voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of digital depictions or actions taken to enable or make available to information content providers or other persons the technical means to restrict access to digital depictions. This act is similar to provisions in HCS/HBs 1887, 2361, 1913, 2862 & 2321 (2026) and HCS/HBs 3393 & 2392 (2026), in SCS/HS/HCS/HBs 3068 & 3049 (2026), HB 362 (2025), SB 411 (2025), SB 1424 (2024), HB 2573 (2024), and contains a provision similar to a provision in SCS/SB 928 (2026), in the truly agreed to and finally passed SS#2/SB 999 (2026), in SB 1747 (2026), SB 1748 (2026), in the truly agreed to and finally passed SS/SCS/HCS/HBs 2273, 1946, 1814 & 2551 (2026), in the truly agreed to and finally passed CCS/SS/SCS/HCS/HBs 2637 & 3155 (2026), in HB 3246 (2026), and in SB 1444 (2024). KATIE O'BRIEN | Passed committee | 4 February 2026 |
| MO | SB 1324 | SB 1324 - The act creates the "Missouri Artificial Intelligence Transparency and Accountability Act". Provisions of the act shall become effective on January 1, 2027. Under the act, any person or entity creating AI-generated content shall label the content as "AI-generated". Labeling requirements are described in the act. Any AI-generated content depicting a real individual shall include an additional disclaimer, as described in the act. Deployers, as defined in the act, shall verify the authenticity of the content before generating the content and shall obtain consent from the individual depicted in the content, except when the content is used for parody or satire. Labels and watermarks on any AI-generated content shall be accessible to individuals with disabilities pursuant to current laws and guidelines, as described in the act. Certain exceptions apply as described in the act. Developers and deployers shall maintain usage logs of all AI systems generating content distributed for public consumption. Requirements for the usage logs are described in the act. Any personal data of the usage logs shall be kept anonymous and protected under current laws, except when requested by law enforcement as described in the act. The Attorney General shall enforce provisions of the act. Any person may report violations of the act to the Attorney General. If the Attorney General finds that a violation occurred, the Attorney General shall commence a civil action. The court may grant relief and civil penalties as described in the act. The act shall not preclude an individual from bringing a private civil action for any violation of the act. Individuals and entities that demonstrate good-faith compliance with the act may raise an affirmative defense to reduce civil penalties, provided they cure any violation within 30 days after receiving notice of the civil action. Within 180 days after the effective date of the act, the Department of Commerce and Insurance may promulgate rules to enforce compliance with the act, as described in the act. The Department shall launch a public awareness campaign to educate Missouri residents about AI-generated content and the residents' rights under the act. The Department shall establish an AI Task Force, as described in the act. Nothing in the act shall preempt any political subdivision from enacting stricter or more stringent ordinances, laws, or rules provided they do not conflict with provisions of the act. The act has a severability clause. JULIA SHEVELEVA | Passed committee | 25 March 2026 |
| MO | SB 1502 | SB 1502 - This act establishes the "Missouri Consent and Likeness Protection Act" which provides that no adhesion contract, disclaimer or waiver, or condition of entry shall be valid or enforceable if it: (1) Waives or limits an individual's right to bring a civil action for the unauthorized use of the individual's identity attributes; or (2) Grants the right to use an individual's identity attributes without allowing the individual to seek judicial relief. As it relates to the use of identity attributes, any provision that purports to release liability, require arbitration, waive jury trial, limit damages, or provide consent without reasonable and just compensation shall be void. Additionally, the rights and requirements of this act shall not be waived by contract. Consent for the commercial or promotional use of identity attributes shall be valid only if the consent is: (1) Affirmative, explicit, and written; (2) Negotiated by all parties in good faith; (3) Separate and distinct from any general terms or conditions; (4) Clearly describing the specific use of the identity attributes, that such use is limited in a duration not to exceed a period of twenty years, and the certain parties authorized to use the identity attributes; and (5) Whether reasonable and just compensation is provided; and (6) Freely revocable at any time. Additionally, consent for the use of identity attributes shall not be implied by an individual's entry onto premises, presence in a public or quasi-public space, participation in an activity, purchase of a ticket, or failure to read or object to posted terms. Consent for the commercial or promotional use of identity attributes obtained through adhesion contracts or disclaimers or waivers shall be conclusively presumed invalid. Furthermore, this act shall apply to any entity doing business in Missouri and to any individual physically present in Missouri at the time of the alleged violation. Any individual whose identity attributes are used in violation of this act may bring a civil action for damages. The court may award a prevailing plaintiff any actual damages, statutory damages of not less than $10,000 per violation, the disgorgement of profits earned through the use of the identity attributes, injunctive and declaratory relief, and reasonable attorney's fees and costs. Additionally, the Attorney General may investigate and bring an enforcement action to enjoin any act or practice which is a violation of this act. Upon a showing of a violation, the Attorney General may seek a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per violation. KATIE O'BRIEN | In committee | 5 February 2026 |
| MO | SB 1506 | SB 1506 - This act establishes the offense of generating, soliciting, or promoting or possessing with the intent to promote an altered sexual depiction, as defined in the act, of an identifiable person. A person commits such offense if the person: • Generates any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent; • Solicits any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent and knows or reasonable should know that the depiction is an altered sexual depiction; or • Willfully and maliciously promotes, or possesses with the intent to maliciously promote, any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent and knows or reasonably should know that the depiction is an altered sexual depiction. A violation of this act is committed within Missouri if any conduct that is an element of the offense, or any harm to the depicted person resulting from the offense, occurs within Missouri. The offense shall be a class C felony. Each act shall constitute a separate offense. Furthermore, a disclaimer that a depicted individual did not consent to the generation or promotion of the material or that the depicted individual did not perform the actions portrayed shall not be a defense. This act additionally provides that an aggrieved person may bring a civil action against a person who generates or who, with knowledge that a visual depiction is an altered sexual depiction, willfully and maliciously promotes, or possesses with the intent to maliciously promote, any altered sexual depiction of a depicted individual without the person's consent. A person may be entitled to injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and monetary damages of $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. This act defines a covered platform as a website, online service, online application, or mobile application that serves the public and that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content or for which in the regular course of business the entity publishes, curates, hosts, or makes available nonconsensual altered sexual depictions. Covered platforms shall not include an information or telecommunications service, email, and certain online services, applications, or websites that consist primarily of content that is not user generated but preselected by the provider and for which any chat, comment, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content. No later than December 31, 2026, covered platforms shall establish a process where an identifiable person or an authorized person for such identifiable person may notify the covered platform of an altered sexual depiction published on the covered platform. The identifiable person or authorized person may submit a written request, as provided in the act, that the covered platform remove such altered sexual depiction. No later than 48 hours after receiving such request, a covered platform shall remove the altered sexual depiction and make reasonable efforts to identify and remove any known identical copies of such altered sexual depiction. Additionally, covered platforms shall provide a notice of the notification and removal process. Failure to comply with the notice and removal requirements of this act shall be an unlawful practice under Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. However, a covered platform shall not be liable for any claim based on the covered platform's good faith removal of or access to the nonconsensual altered sexual depiction based on facts or circumstances from which the publishing of an altered sexual depiction is apparent. The criminal and civil liability shall not apply to the following: • Providers of an interactive computer service, information service, or communications service that provides the transmission, storage, or caching of other's electronic communications or messages; • Providers of another related telecommunications or commercial mobile radio service; • Providers of content provided by another person; • Law enforcement officers or any local, state, federal, or military law enforcement agencies engaged in the performance of duties as a law enforcement officer or the duties of the law enforcement agency; • Persons reporting unlawful activity; or • Persons participating in hearings, trials, or other legal proceedings. This act is substantially similar to HB 2361 (2026). KATIE O'BRIEN | In committee | 5 February 2026 |
| MO | SB 1584 | SB 1584 - The act creates new provisions relating to regulation of online content involving minors. Under the act, a minor shall be considered engaged in the work of content creation under certain criteria, as described in the act, at any time during the previous twelve-month period. A minor who is thirteen years of age or older may produce, create, and publish his or her own content and shall be entitled to all compensation from such content. Any content creator whose content features a minor engaged in content creation shall maintain certain records, as described in the act, and shall retain such records until the minor reaches the age of twenty-one. The content creator shall provide notice to the minor of the existence of such records. A minor who is engaged in the work of content creation shall be compensated by the content creator. The content creator shall set aside gross earnings, as described in the act, on any content including but not limited, the likeness or name of the minor in a trust account to be preserved for the benefit of the minor upon the minor reaching eighteen years of age. Requirements of the trust account are described in the act. After August 28, 2026, any individual who was featured in a content creator's post on a social media platform as a minor may request that the content creator delete or edit the post to remove any content involving the minor. The content creator shall delete or edit the post if the information provided by the individual is uniquely identifiable. Social media platforms shall provide an easily accessible mechanism through which the individual can submit a request for the removal of the content featuring the minor. Social media platforms shall notify the content creator within a reasonable time period, but no longer than thirty days, after receiving a removal request. The content creator shall delete or edit the post from the social media platform within 72 hours after receiving notice from the social media platform. If the content creator fails to delete or edit the post involving the minor within the specified time period, the social media platform shall take all reasonable steps to remove or edit the content involving the minor subject to certain exceptions as described in the act. It shall be unlawful to financially benefit from intentionally or knowingly producing or distributing on social media any visual depiction of a minor with the intent to sexually gratify or elicit a sexual response, or any other restricted material involving a minor, subject to the exceptions described in the act. A social media platform shall develop and implement a strategy to help mitigate risks related to monetization of restricted material involving minors. Requirements of such strategy are described in the act. Any individual may report violations of the act to the Attorney General. If the Attorney General finds that provisions of the act have been violated, the Attorney General shall bring a civil action. Remedies are described in the act. Nothing in the act shall preclude an individual from bringing a private civil action for any violations of the act. The act is identical to HB 2733 (2026), substantially similar to HBs 1245, 832, & 706 (2025), and similar to SB 756 (2025). JULIA SHEVELEVA | In committee | 5 February 2026 |
| MO | SB 411 | Establishes provisions relating to the civil and criminal liability of disclosure of intimate digital depictions | In committee | 26 March 2025 |
| MO | SB 756 | Creates provisions relating to regulation of online content involving minors | In committee | 27 March 2025 |
| MS | HB 1400 | "Mississippi High School Student-Athlete NIL Protection Act"; enact. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| MS | HB 1504 | Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| MS | HB 500 † | Contracts; noncompete provisions in health care provider contracts are void and unenforceable. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| MS | HB 806 | Contracts; noncompete provisions in health care provider contracts are void and unenforceable. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| MS | SB 2044 † | Mississippi Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation and Publicity Rights Act; amend concerning confidentially. | Passed chamber | 3 March 2026 |
| MS | SB 2046 † | Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact. | Passed chamber | 3 March 2026 |
| MS | SB 2220 | Mississippians' Right to Name, Likeness and Voice Act; enact. | Passed chamber | 4 March 2025 |
| MS | SB 2437 | "Prohibition of Exploitation by Deepfakes Act"; enact. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| MS | SB 2517 | "MS Intercollegiate Athletics Compensation Rights Act" and "Uniform Athletes Agent Act"; bring forward. | Enacted | 23 April 2025 |
| MS | SB 2606 | Financial literacy and NIL education; require for certain student-athletes. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| MS | SB 2787 | Bad faith assertions of patent infringement; repeal repealer on. Companion: MS HB 957 | Enacted | 24 March 2025 |
| MS | SB 2796 | Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act; enact. Companion: MS HB 768 | Passed committee | 13 February 2025 |
| MT | HB 392 | Generally revise laws related to creation of profitable family video content featuring minor children | Enacted | 16 May 2025 |
| MT | HB 513 | Revise laws related to use of name, voice, and likeness of individuals and penalties for unauthorized use | Enacted | 19 May 2025 |
| MT | LC 1917 † | Remove prohibition on certain compensation for collegiate student-athlete's name/image/likeness | Introduced | 4 February 2025 |
| MT | LC 2182 | Revise contract laws relating to student athletes | Introduced | 24 February 2025 |
| MT | LC 3983 † | Revise laws related to use of name, voice, and likeness of individuals and penalties for unauthorized use | Introduced | 13 February 2025 |
| MT | SB 271 | Remove prohibition on certain compensation for collegiate student-athlete's name/image/likeness Companion: MT SB 482 | Enacted | 8 May 2025 |
| NC | HB 375 | Artificial Intelligence/Ban Deceptive Ads. | In committee | 13 March 2025 |
| NC | HB 378 | Various Education Law/Tax Account/Name, Image, and Likeness Changes. | Enacted | 1 July 2025 |
| NC | SB 229 | College Sports Updates. | Passed chamber | 6 May 2026 |
| NC | SB 738 | Digital Content Provenance Initiative/Funds. | In committee | 26 March 2025 |
| ND | HB 1320 † | A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new section to chapter 12.1-31 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to prohibiting deepfake videos and images; and to provide a penalty. | Passed committee | 21 January 2025 |
| ND | HB 1386 | AN ACT to amend and reenact sections 12.1-27.2-01 and 12.1-27.2-04.1 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to a prohibition on possessing certain computer-generated images; and to provide a penalty. | Enacted | 24 April 2025 |
| NE | LB 1046 | Require school policies relating to name, image, and likeness rights for high school students | Dead | 17 April 2026 |
| NE | LB 370 | Change provisions of the Nebraska Student-Athlete Name, Image, or Likeness Rights Act | Dead | 17 April 2026 |
| NH | HB 1188 † | relative to noncompete agreements for low-wage employees. | Dead | 24 February 2026 |
| NH | HB 312 † | relative to the right of intercollegiate student-athletes to earn compensation through the use of their name, image, or likeness. | In committee | 1 October 2026 |
| NH | HB 312 † | relative to the right of intercollegiate student-athletes to earn compensation through the use of their name, image, or likeness. | In committee | 10 November 2025 |
| NH | HB 386 † | prohibiting nursing agencies from including non-compete clauses in contracts with health care entities. | Dead | 20 March 2025 |
| NH | SB 402 † | eliminating certain non-compete agreements for physician associates. | Enacted | 21 July 2026 |
| NJ | A 1359 | Prohibits deepfake pornography and imposes criminal and civil penalties for non-consensual disclosure. Companion: NJ S 1159 | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 1829 | Prohibits non-compete clauses. Companion: NJ S 1407 | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 2364 | Establishes Deepfake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million.* | In committee | 20 May 2024 |
| NJ | A 2736 | Updates certain crimes to include nonconsensual pornographic deepfake threats and disclosure. Companion: NJ S 3303 | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 2819 | Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances. | In committee | 9 January 2024 |
| NJ | A 3058 | Establishes Deepfake Technology Unit in DLPS; appropriates $2 million. Companion: NJ S 2130 | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 3065 | Establishes civil right of action for misuse of individual's name, image, likeness, or voice. | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 3540 | Establishes criminal penalties for production or dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, commonly known as "deepfakes." | Enacted | 2 April 2025 |
| NJ | A 3585 | Prohibits and imposes criminal penalty on disclosure of certain intentionally deceptive audio or visual media within 90 days of election. Companion: NJ S 2129 | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | A 4480 | Establishes civil right of action for misuse of individual's name, image, likeness, or voice. | In committee | 6 June 2024 |
| NJ | A 4851 | Provides gross income tax exclusion for all compensation earned by college athletes for use of name, image, or likeness. | In committee | 4 May 2026 |
| NJ | A 5088 | "AI Likeness Protection Act"; concerns distributing realistic representation of individual's image, likeness, or voice created using generative artificial intelligence. | In committee | 14 May 2026 |
| NJ | A 5089 | "AI Image Disclosure Act"; concerns disclosure of certain AI-generated content. | In committee | 14 May 2026 |
| NJ | A 5708 | Prohibits non-compete clauses. Companion: NJ S 4385 | In committee | 4 December 2025 |
| NJ | A 5729 | Establishes protections for student-athletes and certain institutions of higher education concerning name, image, or likeness compensation; repeals "New Jersey Fair Play Act." | Passed committee | 30 June 2025 |
| NJ | A 770 | Requires certain disclosures of intentionally deceptive audio or visual media. | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | S 1192 | Excludes from gross income tax certain compensation earned by college athletes for use of name, image, or likeness. | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | S 2544 | Establishes criminal penalties for production or dissemination of deceptive audio or visual media, commonly known as "deepfakes." | Passed committee | 30 January 2025 |
| NJ | S 3276 | Prohibits contracts for student-athlete's name, image, or likeness from remaining in effect beyond the date the student-athlete is no longer eligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics. | In committee | 2 February 2026 |
| NJ | S 329 | Extends crime of identity theft to include fraudulent impersonation or false depiction by means of artificial intelligence or deepfake technology. | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NJ | S 3305 | Prohibits creation or disclosure of deceptive audio or visual media, known as "deepfakes," under certain circumstances. | In committee | 2 February 2026 |
| NJ | S 4386 | Prohibits non-compete clauses and no-poach agreements. | In committee | 19 May 2025 |
| NJ | S 4439 | Establishes protections for student-athletes and certain institutions of higher education concerning name, image, or likeness compensation; repeals "New Jersey Fair Play Act." | Enacted | 22 July 2025 |
| NJ | S 4542 | Excludes from gross income tax certain compensation earned by college athletes for use of name, image, or likeness. | In committee | 2 June 2025 |
| NJ | S 4702 † | "AI Likeness Protection Act"; concerns distributing realistic representation of individual's image, likeness, or voice created using generative artificial intelligence. | In committee | 1 October 2026 |
| NJ | S 704 | Amends current child labor laws to protect minor working as vlogger in certain circumstances. | In committee | 13 January 2026 |
| NM | HB 141 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT | Introduced | 24 March 2026 |
| NM | HB 212 | VOICE & VISUAL LIKENESS RIGHTS ACT | Introduced | 24 March 2026 |
| NM | HB 221 | VOICE & VISUAL LIKENESS RIGHTS ACT | Passed committee | 3 June 2025 |
| NM | HB 335 | CONFIDENTIAL STUDENT ATHLETE NIL INFO | Dead | 24 March 2026 |
| NM | HB 401 | A.I. SYNTHETIC CONTENT ACCOUNTABILITY ACT | In committee | 3 June 2025 |
| NV | SB 293 | Revises provisions relating to intercollegiate athletics. (BDR 34-1088) | Enacted | 6 June 2025 |
| NV | SB 332 † | Prohibits the making of a bad-faith claim or assertion of copyright infringement. (BDR 52-699) | In committee | 12 April 2025 |
| NY | A 10110 | Relates to a personal right of publicity | In committee | 2 February 2026 |
| NY | A 10964 | Relates to student-athlete name, image, and likeness compensation Companion: NY S 10289 | In committee | 14 April 2026 |
| NY | A 10981 | Prohibits non-compete agreements for certain medical professionals Companion: NY S 9228 | In committee | 29 April 2026 |
| NY | A 11270 | Enacts the "advancing rights for talent, independence, services and tenure (ARTIST) act" | In committee | 4 May 2026 |
| NY | A 11683 † | Relates to audiovisual advertisements and synthetic performer disclosures and materially deceptive media disclosures in certain political communications | In committee | 2 September 2026 |
| NY | A 11712 † | Relates to student-athlete contracts | In committee | 16 September 2026 |
| NY | A 11717 † | Relates to compensation received by minor student-athletes from contracts for the use of a student-athlete's name, image and likeness | In committee | 16 September 2026 |
| NY | A 1361 | Relates to restrictive covenants between employers and employees with respect to agreements not to compete | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 235 | Relates to unauthorized depictions of public officials generated by artificial intelligence | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 3924 | Relates to privacy rights involving digitization | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 395 | Prohibits bad faith assertions of copyright infringement | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 5008 † | Relates to the ability of government agencies in New York to claim copyright protection Companion: NY S 10193 | In committee | 23 April 2026 |
| NY | A 7295 | Relates to expanding the right of publicity Companion: NY S 10493 | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 7717 † | Increases the trademark registration and renewal fee Companion: NY S 6615 | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 7718 † | Provides for remedies for trademark dilution Companion: NY S 6644 | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 8105 | Creates the uniform trade secrets act Companion: NY S 5336 | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | A 8611 | Clarifies the right of publicity | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | S 3990 | Relates to establishing the offense of false pretense | In committee | 15 June 2026 |
| NY | S 4641 | Prohibits non-compete agreements and certain restrictive covenants Companion: NY A 10023, NY S 9759 | Passed chamber | 9 June 2025 |
| NY | S 5156 | Establishes the "It's Your Data Act" | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | S 6616 | Increases the remedy for trademark counterfeiting | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| NY | S 825 | Establishes protections for minors who are featured in compensated video content Companion: NY A 774 | Passed chamber | 1 June 2026 |
| NY | S 8391 | Relates to the right of publicity Companion: NY A 8882 | Enacted | 11 December 2025 |
| NY | S 8420 | Relates to requiring advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer Companion: NY A 606, NY A 8887, NY S 1228 | Enacted | 11 December 2025 |
| NY | S 8721 | Establishes privacy and publicity rights for likenesses altered using artificial intelligence | In committee | 7 January 2026 |
| OH | HB 184 | Prescribe limitations on intercollegiate athlete contracts | Enacted | 20 March 2026 |
| OH | HB 185 | Regards an individual's persona usage; prohibit certain deepfakes | In committee | 26 March 2025 |
| OH | HB 745 | Enact Student-Athlete Publicity Rights and Fair Compensation Act | In committee | 18 March 2026 |
| OH | SB 163 | Regards AI images, simulated child porn, replica identity fraud | Passed chamber | 27 May 2026 |
| OH | SB 301 | Regards noncompete clauses in health care employment contracts | In committee | 29 October 2025 |
| OK | HB 1016 | Labor; compensation for minors; Internet content; records; trust account; civil action; effective date. | Passed chamber | 16 April 2026 |
| OK | HB 1305 | Student athletes; name, image, and likeness; financial literacy; emergency. | Passed committee | 12 February 2025 |
| OK | HB 1305 | Student athletes; name, image, and likeness; financial literacy; emergency. | Passed committee | 12 February 2025 |
| OK | HB 2216 | Securities; Oklahoma Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2025; property right; civil action; effective date. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| OK | HB 2216 | Securities; Oklahoma Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2025; property right; civil action; effective date. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| OK | HB 3299 | Crimes and punishments; creating and disseminating a digitization or synthetic media; making certain acts unlawful; emergency. | Passed committee | 26 February 2026 |
| OK | HB 3553 † | Student athletes; Oklahoma Student Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Rights Reform Act of 2026; effective date. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| OK | SB 2085 | Artificial intelligence; establishing certain rights; prohibiting certain actions by certain entities; requiring certain actions by certain entities. Effective date. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| OK | SB 490 | Student Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Rights Act; modifying terms and requirements for certain agreements between student athletes and postsecondary institutions or authorized third parties. Emergency. | Enacted | 5 May 2025 |
| OK | SB 490 | Student Athlete Name, Image, and Likeness Rights Act; modifying terms and requirements for certain agreements between student athletes and postsecondary institutions or authorized third parties. Emergency. | Enacted | 5 May 2025 |
| OK | SB 746 | Artificial intelligence; requiring certain disclosure for certain media. Effective date. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| OK | SB 746 | Artificial intelligence; requiring certain disclosure for certain media. Effective date. | In committee | 4 February 2025 |
| OK | SB 894 | Artificial intelligence; prohibiting distribution of certain media and requiring certain disclosures. Effective date. | Passed committee | 5 March 2025 |
| OK | SB 894 | Artificial intelligence; prohibiting distribution of certain media and requiring certain disclosures. Effective date. | Passed committee | 5 March 2025 |
| OR | HB 2230 | Relating to explicit digital forgeries. | In committee | 28 June 2025 |
| OR | SB 1139 | Relating to noncompetition agreements. Companion: OR SB 468 | In committee | 28 June 2025 |
| OR | SB 1193 | Relating to compensation to student athletes. | In committee | 28 June 2025 |
| PA | HB 2558 † | An Act prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in broadcast employment agreements. | Passed chamber | 9 July 2026 |
| PA | SB 142 | An Act prohibiting enforcement of covenants not to compete in broadcast employment agreements. | Passed committee | 30 June 2026 |
| PA | SB 649 | An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in forgery and fraudulent practices, providing for the offense of digital forgery. | Enacted | 7 July 2025 |
| PR | PS 202 | Para enmendar el Articulo 12.01, y añadir un nuevo Articulo 12.1.4, al Capitulo XII de la Ley 85-2018, según enmendada, conocida como "Ley de Reforma Educativa de Puerto Rico", a los fines de disponer para que a través del Programa de Educación Ocupacional y Técnica del Departamento de Educación, se establezcan escuelas especializadas en desarrollar programas dirigidos a promover la transferencia de tecnologia para llevar al uso público, los descubrimientos cientificos y tecnológicos de los alumnos, mediante la comercialización, y la protección de la propiedad intelectual, con la cual se persigue la obtención de patentes y/o registro de las marcas de servicios; añadir un nueva Sección 2100.M a la Ley 60-2019, según enmendada, conocida como "Código de Incentivos de Puerto Rico", a los efectos de crear un denominado "Programa de Apoyo a las Escuelas Especializadas en Promoción de Transferencia de Tecnología y Comercialización de Productos", que tendrá como propósito servir como fuente de financiamiento para las actividades de desarrollo, investigación y comercialización de los productos generados por los alumnos de los antes mencionados centros educativos; enmendar los articulos 3, 4 y 26 de la Ley 214- 2004, según enmendada, conocida como "Ley del Fideicomiso para Ciencia, Tecnologia e Investigación de Puerto Rico", con el propósito de conferirle al mencionado Fideicorniso, al igual que al Departamento de Desarrollo Económico y Comercio, la responsabilidad de apoyar las actividades de desarrollo, investigación y comercialización de los productos generados por los alumnos de las referidas escuelas; y para otros fines relacionados. | Passed chamber | 17 February 2026 |
| RI | HB 8060 | AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- IMPERSONATION AND IDENTITY FRAUD Companion: RI SB 3338 | Enacted | 23 June 2026 |
| RI | SB 153 | AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN -- VLOGS | Dead | 11 February 2025 |
| RI | SB 2160 † | AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT ACT | Passed chamber | 1 April 2026 |
| RI | SB 302 | AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND NONCOMPETITION AGREEMENT ACT | Passed chamber | 18 June 2025 |
| SC | H 3273 | Noncompete covenants | In committee | 14 January 2025 |
| SC | H 3326 | Bad faith copyright infringement | In committee | 14 January 2025 |
| SC | H 3404 | Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act | In committee | 14 January 2025 |
| SC | H 4767 | Physician Noncompete Contract Prohibition | Passed chamber | 5 May 2026 |
| SC | H 4902 | Intercollegiate Athletes' Compensation for Name, Image, or Likeness | Enacted | 23 April 2026 |
| SC | S 46 | Healthcare contracts | In committee | 14 January 2025 |
| SD | HB 1180 | ensure the validity of non-compete agreements in the context of jointly owned business entities. | Enacted | 12 March 2026 |
| SD | SB 41 | revise a provision related to criminal invasions of privacy, prohibit the creation and distribution of digitally fabricated material of an identifiable individual, and provide penalties therefor. | Enacted | 30 March 2026 |
| TN | HB 1206 † | Physicians and Surgeons - As introduced, increases from 10 to 30 business days, the period of time that must be included in a non-compete agreement between an employing entity and a physician regarding the time after which, if no agreement on the fair market value of the practice can be determined when an attempt to repurchase the practice is made, the physician may remove any restrictions on the physician’s ability to practice by tendering the amount that was paid to the physician for the sale of the practice. - Amends TCA Title 63 and Title 68. Companion: TN SB 852 | In committee | 19 March 2025 |
| TN | HB 1386 | Education, Higher - As introduced, requires institutions of higher education to conduct various programs for intercollegiate athletes covering name, image, and likeness; authorizes institutions of higher education to collect talent fees; makes various other changes to intercollegiate athletes' name, image, and likeness authorizations and requirements. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 29; Title 49, Chapter 7; Title 49, Chapter 8 and Title 49, Chapter 9. Companion: TN SB 1419 | In committee | 21 January 2026 |
| TN | HB 2330 † | Personal Property - As introduced, extends from 10 to 100 years the initial statutory period of the postmortem right to commercial exploitation of a deceased individual's property rights in such individual's name, photograph, voice, or likeness by an executor, assignee, heir, or devisee. - Amends TCA Title 8, Chapter 3; Title 47, Chapter 25 and Title 47, Chapter 18. Companion: TN SB 2655 | Introduced | 5 February 2026 |
| TN | HB 905 † | Consumer Protection - As introduced, changes the definition of "definable group" for purposes of the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024 to include a choral group rather than a glee club. - Amends TCA Title 47, Chapter 25, Part 11. Companion: TN SB 947 | In committee | 8 April 2026 |
| TN | SB 1346 | Criminal Offenses - As enacted, creates a civil and criminal action for individuals who are the subject of an intimate digital depiction that is intentionally disclosed without the individual's consent under certain circumstances. - Amends TCA Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17. Companion: TN HB 1299 | Enacted | 15 May 2025 |
| TX | HB 126 | Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education. | Enacted | 5 June 2025 |
| TX | HB 127 | Relating to measures to protect institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; increasing a criminal penalty. | Enacted | 20 June 2025 |
| TX | HB 2795 | Relating to criminal offenses for creating and distributing certain misleading images and videos; creating a criminal offense. | In committee | 19 March 2025 |
| TX | HB 2907 | Relating to the use by a landlord or landlord's manager or agent of a tenant's name or likeness for a commercial purpose. | In committee | 19 March 2025 |
| TX | HB 3220 | Relating to the compensation and professional representation of prospective student athletes and student athletes participating in intercollegiate athletic programs at certain institutions of higher education. Companion: TX SB 1817 | In committee | 20 March 2025 |
| TX | HB 3694 | Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit media and to the removal of certain intimate visual depictions published on online platforms without the consent of the person depicted; increasing criminal penalties. | Passed chamber | 19 May 2025 |
| TX | HB 3787 | Relating to the sale and distribution of counterfeit or unsafe lighters; imposing a civil penalty. | Passed chamber | 13 May 2025 |
| TX | HB 3950 | Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee. | In committee | 27 March 2025 |
| TX | HB 4081 | Relating to the sealing of certain documents alleged to contain trade secrets. | Enacted | 20 June 2025 |
| TX | HB 421 | Relating to the creation of certain explicit deep fake material; providing a private cause of action. | Passed chamber | 30 April 2025 |
| TX | HB 449 | Relating to the unlawful production or distribution of sexually explicit media using deep fake technology. | Vetoed | 22 June 2025 |
| TX | HB 5517 | Relating to sexually explicit artificially generated images and videos. | In committee | 7 April 2025 |
| TX | HB 5543 † | Relating to creating a private cause of action for bad faith claims of patent infringement. | Dead | 12 May 2025 |
| TX | HB 783 | Relating to civil liability for online impersonation. | Enacted | 20 June 2025 |
| TX | SB 1960 | Relating to digital replication rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals; providing private causes of action; authorizing a fee. | Passed chamber | 21 May 2025 |
| TX | SB 2030 | Relating to prohibited student athlete name, image, and likeness agreements; providing injunctive relief and a civil penalty. | In committee | 17 March 2025 |
| TX | SB 2430 | Relating to measures to protect public institutions of higher education from foreign adversaries and to the prosecution of the criminal offense of theft of trade secrets; providing civil and administrative penalties; increasing a criminal penalty. | In committee | 5 May 2025 |
| TX | SB 442 | Relating to the prosecution and punishment of the offense of unlawful production or distribution of certain sexually explicit media; increasing a criminal penalty. | Passed chamber | 26 May 2025 |
| TX | SB 655 | Relating to prohibited student athlete name, image, and likeness agreements; providing injunctive relief and a civil penalty. | In committee | 3 February 2025 |
| TX | SB 893 | Relating to criminal offenses for creating and distributing certain misleading images, audio recordings, and videos; creating a criminal offense. | Passed chamber | 9 April 2025 |
| US | H.R. 10215 | Workforce Mobility Act of 2026 | In committee | 1 September 2026 |
| US | H.R. 10364 | American Copyright Protection Act of 2026 | In committee | 14 September 2026 |
| US | H.R. 10575 | Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property (DEFEND IP) Act of 2026 | In committee | 24 September 2026 |
| US | H.R. 1941 | Preventing Deepfakes of Intimate Images Act | In committee | 6 March 2025 |
| US | H.R. 8915 | NO FAKES Act of 2026 | In committee | 20 May 2026 |
| US | S. 4668 | Protect College Sports Act of 2026 | Introduced | 5 October 2026 |
| US | S. 4695 | CONSENT Act | In committee | 8 June 2026 |
| UT | HB 203 | Non-Compete Amendments | Passed committee | 7 March 2026 |
| UT | HB 449 | Student Athlete Amendments | Passed chamber | 8 March 2025 |
| UT | SB 111 | Veterinary Post-employment Amendments | Enacted | 17 March 2026 |
| UT | SB 256 | Identity Protection Modifications | Enacted | 26 March 2026 |
| UT | SB 271 | Unauthorized Artificial Intelligence Impersonation Amendments | Enacted | 27 March 2025 |
| VA | HB 1099 † | Student-athlete name, image, and likeness deal transparency; best practices, report. | In committee | 4 February 2026 |
| VA | HB 1099 | Student-athlete name, image, and likeness deal transparency; best practices, report. | In committee | 4 February 2026 |
| VA | HB 2374 | Athlete agents; deregulation. | In committee | 5 February 2025 |
| VA | HB 2462 | Unauthorized use of name, portrait, etc.; digital replica, civil liability, statute of limitations. | Passed chamber | 22 February 2025 |
| VA | HB 581 | Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages, statute of limitations. | Enacted | 13 April 2026 |
| VA | HB 949 | Covenants not to compete; exceptions, civil penalty. | In committee | 3 February 2026 |
| VA | SB 128 | Covenants not to compete; includes health care professionals, civil penalty. | Vetoed | 11 April 2026 |
| VA | SB 1421 | Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages, statute of limitations. | In committee | 29 January 2025 |
| VA | SB 170 † | Protection of employees; covenants not to compete, discharged employees. | Enacted | 13 April 2026 |
| VA | SB 571 † | Synthetic media; expands applicability of provisions related to defamation, etc., penalty. | In committee | 19 November 2024 |
| VA | SB 678 † | Intercollegiate athletics; student-athletes, compensation and representation for name, image, etc. | Passed committee | 19 November 2024 |
| VA | SB 753 | Unauthorized use of voice or likeness; punitive damages, statute of limitations. | Enacted | 13 April 2026 |
| VA | SB 840 | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account. | In committee | 20 January 2025 |
| VA | SB 998 | Child labor; child engaged in the work of content creation, trust account. | Enacted | 2 May 2025 |
| VT | H 205 | An act relating to agreements not to compete | Floor vote | 13 March 2026 |
| VT | H 334 | An act relating to limiting employer restrictions on individuals separating from employment | Introduced | 15 January 2026 |
| VT | H 387 † | An act relating to the creation of a property right for an individual’s personal characteristics | Introduced | 26 February 2025 |
| VT | H 388 † | An act relating to the protection of an individual’s digital replica | Introduced | 26 February 2025 |
| VT | H 563 | An act relating to a private right of action for unauthorized use of a person’s likeness obtained near the immediate entrance of an essential care facility | Introduced | 6 January 2026 |
| WA | HB 1155 | Prohibiting noncompetition agreements and clarifying nonsolicitation agreements. Companion: WA SB 5437 | Enacted | 23 March 2026 |
| WA | HB 1205 | Prohibiting the knowing distribution of a forged digital likeness. | Enacted | 16 April 2025 |
| WA | HB 1820 | Protecting the interests of minor children featured on for-profit family vlogs. | Introduced | 12 January 2026 |
| WA | SB 5886 | Concerning forged digital likenesses. | Enacted | 16 March 2026 |
| WA | SB 6041 | Updating personality rights protections. | Introduced | 27 January 2026 |
| WI | AB 1034 | Relating to: name, image, and likeness rights for University of Wisconsin System student athletes; maintenance costs for University of Wisconsin–Madison intercollegiate athletic facilities; and making an appropriation. (FE) Companion: WI SB 1075 | Enacted | 13 May 2026 |
| WI | AB 567 | Relating to: covenants not to compete in employment contracts. | Dead | 23 March 2026 |
| WI | AB 675 | Relating to: noncompete clauses for medical practitioners. Companion: WI SB 657 | Dead | 23 March 2026 |
| WI | AB 884 | Relating to: who may purchase certain contractual services and technical changes to tax provisions related to qualified retirement plans and the film production services credit. Companion: WI SB 880 | Enacted | 2 April 2026 |
| WV | HB 5178 † | To provide asset preservation for minors who earn income from artistic or creative services for us of their name, image, or likeness | In committee | 4 February 2026 |
| WV | SB 647 † | Authorizing higher education institutions to enter into agreements relating to student-athlete's name, image, or likeness | In committee | 3 March 2025 |
| WY | SF 107 | Noncompete agreements prohibited. | Enacted | 19 March 2025 |
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