Methodology
What this tracker covers
State-level consumer AI legislation in the United States, captured monthly with out-of-cycle refreshes for enactments, vetoes, and special sessions. The snapshot date is April 2026.
Included: any bill — introduced, pending, enacted, or vetoed — that touches one or more of the six rights covered in the next section (Disclosure, Consent, Mental health, Likeness, Elections, Enforcement).
Excluded: federal proposals, non-US jurisdictions, bills that don't touch the six rights, and bills we haven't yet triaged.
How we classify bills
Every record in the tracker carries two layers of classification: the rights the bill touches (what consumer protection the state chose to require) and the status of the bill (where it sits in the state process).
The six rights
The status ladder
Four statuses reflect what each state chose:
- Introduced — a bill has been filed but has not yet advanced out of its first committee.
- Pending — a bill has advanced past initial committee review; active movement in at least one chamber.
- Enacted — the state chose to make the bill law (signed by the governor or passed over a veto).
- Vetoed — the state chose not to make the bill law (governor's veto, not overridden).
The frontier-governance tag
A bill may additionally carry a frontier-governance tag. This marks bills that impose duties on developers of frontier-capability AI systems — a narrower category than consumer-facing AI. The next section explains the four-criteria threshold that defines the tag.
Frontier governance — the §4.2 threshold
A state bill qualifies as "frontier governance" if it imposes at least one of the following on developers of frontier-capability AI systems:
These four criteria were chosen because they are the governance levers most specific to frontier-capability systems — the ones that distinguish a "frontier AI bill" from broader consumer-protection legislation. Each state decides independently which combination to require.
How we score states
The scorecard ranks states by a composite score that rewards enacted law, counts active pending bills, and adjusts for how broadly a state has chosen to cover the six rights. The formula:
Recency is applied as a mild decay: enactments from the current session and one year back count fully; older enactments lose a small amount of weight per year. This prevents a state that enacted one law in 2019 and nothing since from ranking above a state actively legislating today.
The scorecard also carries a rights-coverage matrix that shows which of the six rights each top-ranked state has addressed. That matrix is sorted by breadth (number of rights covered), not by composite score — it's a companion view, not a ranking.
Data sources & refresh cadence
js/asai-data.js — the single source of truth for every surface on this tracker.
scripts/check-citations.js before each ship; the gate must pass at zero failures before a release.
Spotted a stale record or want to flag a bill we've missed? Email press@secureainow.org with the bill ID from the ledger row.