Key point: Bills advanced last week in Connecticut, Colorado, and California while Florida lawmakers will return for a special session this week and consider an AI Bill of Rights.

Below is the fifteenth update on the status of proposed state AI legislation in 2026. These posts track state AI bills that can directly or indirectly affect private-sector AI developers and deployers. These posts do not track AI bills that focus on government use of AI; insurance; workgroups; education; legal settings; name, image, and likeness; deepfakes; CSAM and sexual material; and election interference. As always, the contents provided below are time-sensitive and subject to change.

What’s New

Connecticut Senator James Maroney’s AI bill passed the Senate. The 71-page bill covers many different subjects, including companion chatbots, the use of AI in employment decisions, provenance, and the regulation of frontier model developers.

All eyes will be on Florida next week as the legislature starts a four-day special session on April 28. The Senate will consider an AI Bill of Rights that is identical to a bill the Senate passed in March. That bill was not taken up in the House. Senate leadership has already announced that the Senate will pass the bill on April 28. The fate of the bill in the House is unclear; however, the Florida Speaker of the House has previously stated that AI only should be regulated at the federal level.

California lawmakers were active last week, passing numerous bills out of committees, including four chatbot bills, three health care related bills, two employment bills, and a provenance bill.

Colorado lawmakers also moved bills last week with a chatbot bill passing the House and a pricing bill, which previously passed the House, being voted out of a Senate committee.

In other news, Hawaii lawmakers convened a conference committee to try to resolve their differences on a chatbot bill. The committee met on Friday and is scheduled to meet again on Monday. Meanwhile, a Vermont Senate committee advanced a health care bill that previously passed the House. Finally, a personhood bill was signed into law in Tennessee.

More details on those bills plus updates on all bill movements last week in the below post.

High Risk / Consequential Decisions

These bills regulate AI in high-risk situations such as financial services or healthcare and can require disclosures, assessments, and consumer rights.

There were no updates for this category last week.

Chatbot

These bills come in different varieties but, in general, they regulate AI interacting directly with individuals. For example, chatbots that act as companions or interact with individuals in a commercial or healthcare setting.

Two bills crossed chambers last week. In Colorado, HB 1263 passed the House by a 40-24 vote.

In Connecticut, Senator James Maroney’s SB 5 passed the Senate by a 32-4 vote. The bill covers many different subjects, including companion chatbots, the use of AI in employment decisions, provenance, and the regulation of frontier model developers.

Meanwhile, in Hawaii, a conference committee was appointed for SB 3001. The committee met on April 24 and is scheduled to meet again on April 27.

Several California bills advanced last week. AB 1988 (Preventing AI User Self Endangerment (PAUSE) Act) passed out of the Assembly Health Committee. AB 2023 (companion chatbots: children’s safety) passed out of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. SB 1119 (companion chatbots: children’s safety) passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. AB 1609 (customer service chatbots) passed out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

Pricing

These bills deal with the use of AI to set prices and in some cases deal with employment.

Colorado’s HB 1210 (prohibit surveillance price and wage setting) passed out of the Senate Business, Labor, and Technology Committee and is now on Senate floor votes. The bill previously passed the House.

Turning to new bills, the Surveillance Pricing Prohibition Amendment Act of 2026 (B 26-0667) was introduced in Washington, D.C. A new surveillance pricing bill (SB 835) also was introduced in South Carolina.

Disclosures

These bills generally require organizations to identify when content is generated by AI or otherwise make disclosures regarding the use of GenAI.

Minnesota lawmakers are now considering a bill (HF 5051) to require disclosures when selling or distributing programs with AI.

Provenance

These bills require entities to make disclosures regarding the data used to train AI.

California’s AB 2713 (California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data) was voted out of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee and is now on a third floor reading.

Employment

These bills regulate the use of AI in employment settings such as hiring, firing, promotion, compensation or displacement issues.

California’s SB 947 (employment: automated decision systems) was amended and passed the Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection Committee. AB 2027 (worker data: prohibitions: AI) passed the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.

Health

These bills focus on the use of AI in healthcare.

In Vermont, HB 814 passed out of the Senate Health and Welfare Committee and was referred to the Appropriations Committee. The bill previously passed the House.

Meanwhile, three California bills advanced last week. SB 903 (mental health professionals: AI) passed out of the Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies and Consumer Protection Committee. AB 2575 (health care services: AI) was amended and passed the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. AB 1979 also was amended and passed the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.

Personhood

These bills generally provide that AI cannot be granted legal status or deemed a person under state law.

In Tennessee, SB 837 was signed into law. The new law clarifies that a “person,’ as used in Tennessee Code Annotated, does not include AI, a computer algorithm, a software program, computer hardware, or any type of machine.

AI Bill of Rights

These bills cover multiple issues such as chatbots and providing individuals with rights relating to AI.

Florida’s four-day special session starts April 28. The Senate will consider SB 2D (AI Bill of Rights), which is identical to a bill the Senate passed in March. That bill was not taken up in the House. According to an April 24 post on the Senate website, Senate leadership intends to pass the bill on April 28.

Frontier Models

These bills apply to frontier models and the bills commonly apply only to global-scale tech corporations.

There were no updates for this category last week.