Which AI Bills Were Signed into Law in 2025?
Key highlights this week:
We’re tracking 1,080 bills in all 50 states related to AI during the 2025 legislative session.
The California Privacy Protection Agency board unanimously adopted a package of regulations related to automated decision-making technology. Separately, a federal judge struck down the state’s political deepfake law.
Colorado lawmakers will return for a special session this month to address issues with its landmark AI law set to go into effect in 2026.
The governor of Illinois signed a bill into law to prohibit the use of AI in mental health services without informed consent.
By our count, this year, lawmakers in all 50 states have considered 1,080 bills related to AI. Yet despite this clear interest from lawmakers, only 118 bills have been signed into law this year (less than 11%). This week, we’ll take a look at which bills are making it across the finish line.
Similar to 2024, deepfake legislation has been of major interest to lawmakers this year. Of the 1,080 AI bills introduced, 301 have addressed deepfakes. Of those 301 bills, 68 were signed into law. Furthermore, 68 of the enacted bills addressed sexual deepfakes specifically (as opposed to political deepfakes; however, many states did adopt political deepfake laws last year in the lead-up to the 2024 election). As we have previously discussed, deepfake legislation is an easy target for state lawmakers, particularly where sexual deepfakes are concerned. This has also been true on the federal level, where the only major AI-specific law to be enacted has addressed sexual deepfakes.
