AI governance structures
Should states create new agencies or commissions to oversee AI? 10 bills.
- Coming back
- 3
- Became law
- 0
- Stopped
- 1
May return next session in Virginia
May return next session 3
- Filed for next sessionFostering Access, Innovation, and Responsibility in Artificial Intelligence Act; establishedIn committee
- 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
Grouped by AI from the bills closest to AI policy, by the policy questions they address; showing those in Virginia. 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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