AI Takes Center Stage at State Legislative Gatherings
Key highlights this week:
We’re tracking 1,079 bills in all 50 states related to AI during the 2025 legislative session.
President Trump unveiled a federal “AI Action Plan” and signed three AI-focused executive orders addressing the data center buildout, exporting the “American AI Technology Stack,” and preventing “woke” AI.
Colorado lawmakers are preparing for a potential special legislative session in the next month or two to make amendments to the state’s algorithmic discrimination law, which itself is set to go into effect in 2026.
Budget bills signed into law in Wisconsin and Ohio will require health insurers to disclose AI use in reviewing claims and mandate schools to develop artificial intelligence policies, respectively.
And as summer rolls on, state lawmakers are gathering at major industry meetings to debate model AI policy, which is the subject of this week’s deep dive.
The summer is an interesting time for state lawmakers, as most of their legislative sessions have come to a close for the year. But some of the most engaged lawmakers participate in several of the big meetings organized by “the groups.” Some, but not all, of these multi-state lawmaker organizations produce model policies as a means for lawmakers to return to their own state and introduce similar policy ideas. Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence has been a hot topic at these meetings this summer.
We’re going to try something a little different this week, and review what we know about these multi-state lawmaker groups’ intentions on AI policy this summer, which will both preview where lawmakers' thinking might be for next year’s legislative sessions as well as review what they learned from this year.
