Connecticut’s AI Bill Sheds Major Mandates
Key highlights this week:
We’re tracking 1,016 bills in all 50 states related to AI during the 2025 legislative session.
The congressional reconciliation budget bill, containing a 10-year moratorium on enforcement of state or local AI laws, passed the U.S. House, sending it to the Senate.
Nebraska enacted a sexual deepfake law.
And Sen. Maroney hopes that a stripped-down version of his comprehensive AI bill will gain gubernatorial approval this year in Connecticut, which is the subject of this week’s deep dive.
The Connecticut Senate has passed a stripped-down version of Sen. James Maroney’s (D) comprehensive AI bill (CT SB 2). This is the second attempt at a comprehensive AI bill pushed by Sen. Maroney after his bill last year failed to gain the support of Gov. Ned Lamont (D) after also gaining approval in the Senate. The amendments this week further reflect how momentum has shifted against the regulation of AI nationwide, and how even advocates are acknowledging a new political reality.
Last Wednesday, the Senate approved Sen. Maroney’s SB 2, but the version bears little resemblance to the ambitious legislation originally introduced. What started out as an algorithmic discrimination regulation on developers, integrators, and deployers of AI systems is now a transparency bill limited to deployers with a grab back of programs added to accelerate the adoption of AI in Connecticut.
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