Key point: Last week, four bills were signed into law in three states, two state legislatures passed chatbot bills, and eight bills crossed chambers.

Below is the 11th 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

It was a very busy week.

Four bills were signed into law. Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed the state’s chatbot and provenance bills while Utah Governor Spencer Cox approved the state’s provenance bill. In New York, Governor Hochul signed the RAISE Act chapter amendments bill into law.

Chatbot bills continue to move through state legislatures. Two state legislatures — Idaho and Georgia — passed bills while two more states — Oklahoma and Maryland — saw bills cross chambers. Bills in Arizona, Hawaii, Colorado, and Michigan also advanced in committees.

Turning to pricing bills, Colorado’s House passed a surveillance pricing and wage setting bill. Meanwhile, companion bills passed the Maryland House and Senate. Those bills focus on food retailers and food delivery providers. A surveillance pricing bill also advanced out of a California committee.

Moving to health care-related bills, Maryland’s House passed a bill prohibiting an AI developer from making, or knowingly causing AI to make, certain representations or statements relating to behavioral health care. Meanwhile, Missouri’s House passed a bill through third reading that, in part, prohibits persons or entities that develop or deploy AI from advertising or representing to the public that the AI is or is able to act as a mental health professional or is capable of providing therapy services, psychotherapy services, or a mental health diagnosis.

Two personhood bills advanced. Oklahoma’s House passed a bill by a 94-2 vote while a Tennessee Senate committee recommended a bill for passage.

Finally, the deadline for bills to cross chambers in Maryland and Oklahoma was March 23 and March 26, respectively.

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 health care 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 health care setting.

Washington’s HB 2225 was signed into law by Governor Bob Ferguson. You can read our analysis of the law here.

Two state legislatures passed bills last week. Idaho’s legislature passed its chatbot bill (S 1297) on Thursday. The bill will next move to Idaho Governor Brad Little for consideration. The following day, Georgia’s legislature passed its chatbot bill (SB 540). That bill moved quickly with the House amending and passing the bill last week and the Senate voting on Friday to concur in the amendment.

Three bills crossed chambers. Maryland’s chatbot bill (HB 952) passed the House by a 123-4 vote while Oklahoma’s Senate (SB 1521) and House (HB 3544) each passed chatbot bills prior to the state’s legislative cross over deadline.

Arizona’s HB 2311 is poised for passage, having received “do pass” votes from both the Senate majority and minority caucuses. The bill already passed the House.

In Hawaii, HB 2458 was amended and passed out of one Senate committee. Meanwhile, HB 1782 passed out of two Senate committees with amendments. Both bills previously passed the House.

In Colorado, an amended HB 1263 passed out of committee and is on House floor votes. Similarly, Michigan’s SB 760 passed out of committee and is listed for immediate passage.

Pricing

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

Bills crossed chambers in two states. Colorado’s HB 1210 passed the House. The bill prohibits certain types of surveillance pricing and wage setting.

Maryland companion bills SB 387 and HB 895 each passed out of their respective chambers. Among other things, the bills prohibit food retailers and third-party food delivery service providers from engaging in dynamic pricing or using consumer data to set prices for consumer goods or services.

California’s AB 2564 passed out of the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee and was re-referred to the Judiciary Committee. Among other things, the bill would, subject to certain exceptions, prohibit a retailer from engaging in surveillance pricing. 

Disclosures

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

There were no updates for this category last week.

Provenance

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

Washington’s HB 1170 and Utah’s HB 276 were both signed into law.

Employment

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

California’s AB 1898 passed out of the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee and was re-referred to the Judiciary Committee. The bill deals with the use of workplace AI tools.

In Minnesota, HF 4537 was filed as a companion bill to SF 4573.

Health

These bills focus on the use of AI in health care.

HB 883 passed the Maryland House. Among other things, the bill prohibits an AI developer from making, or knowingly causing AI to make, certain representations or statements relating to behavioral health care.

HB 2035 passed a third reading in the Missouri House. The bill addresses several topics but, as it relates to our scope, it prohibits persons or entities that develop or deploy AI from advertising or representing to the public that the AI is or is able to act as a mental health professional or is capable of providing therapy services, psychotherapy services, or a mental health diagnosis.

Personhood

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

The Oklahoma House passed HB 3546 by a 94-2 vote. Tennessee’s SB 837 was recommended for passage as amended by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

AI Bill of Rights

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

There were no developments for this category last week.

Frontier Models

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

New York’s RAISE Act chapter amendments bill (A 9449) was signed into law.

In Minnesota, HF 4532 was filed as a companion bill to SF 4509.

Other

A Tennessee Senate committee recommended SB 1493 for passage as amended. The amendment is not yet publicly available. As introduced, the bill makes it a felony to knowingly train AI to encourage the act of suicide or criminal homicide.

A new Minnesota bill, SF 4927, among other things, prohibits the owner of an AI model from “allowing the model to provide a professional service to a consumer unless the model is operated, while the service is being provided, by a natural person who is credentialed to provide the professional services or by a natural person representing a business that is credentialed to provide the professional services.”