AI governance structures
Should states create new agencies or commissions to oversee AI? 10 bills.
- Open now
- 5
- Coming back
- 4
- Became law
- 0
- Stopped
- 1
The bills
What can still move first, then what may return next session, then laws and what stopped. Newest first in each.
Can still move 5
- Congress back Nov 9, dies Jan 3, 2027Department of Advanced Technology and Artificial Intelligence ActIn committee
- Can still moveEstablishes the position of chief artificial intelligence officerPassed first chamber
- Can still moveCreate the Artificial Intelligence Study CommissionIn committee
- Can still moveCreates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics and automationPassed first chamber
- Can still moveEstablishes the position of chief artificial intelligence officerIn committee
May return next session 4
- Filed for next sessionFostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act; establishedIn committee
- Must be reintroduced next sessionAttorney GeneralPassed first chamber
- Must be reintroduced next sessionDevelopment, deployment, and use by public bodies, reportPassed first chamber
- Must be reintroduced next sessionDevelopment, deployment, and use by public bodies, reportPassed first chamber
Stopped: vetoed, failed or out of time 1
- Left in Committee Appropriations · Feb 18Fostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act; establishedSession ended
Grouped by AI from the bills closest to AI policy, by the policy questions they address. Bills in a group may take opposing positions. Grouping as of October 30, 2026. A bill is not a law until it is signed.
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