2019 Legislation
Bills or resolutions dealing specifically with artificial intelligence were introduced in at least 15 states, and measures were enacted or adopted in seven of those states, as indicated in boldface below. Most of the measures proposed task forces or studies.
The Illinois General Assembly enacted the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act (820 ILCS 42). The act provides that employers must notify applicants before a videotaped interview that artificial intelligence may be used to analyze the interview and consider the applicant's fitness for the position. Employers also must provide each applicant with information before the interview explaining how the artificial intelligence works and what general types of characteristics it uses to evaluate applicants. Employers also must obtain, before the interview, consent from the applicant to be evaluated by the artificial intelligence program. Employers also may not share applicant videos unnecessarily and they must delete an applicant’s interview upon request of the applicant.
Alabama
AL SJR 45
Status: Enacted
Recognizes Alabama's technology and growing artificial intelligence job sectors' impact on the state's economy.
AL SJR 71
Status: Enacted
Establishes the state Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Associated Technologies to review and advise on all aspects of the growth of artificial intelligence and associated technology in the state and the use of artificial intelligence in various fields.
California
CA A.B. 459
Status: Failed
Requires the Artificial Intelligence in State Government Services Commission to report to the legislature on the commission's recommended minimum standards for the use of artificial intelligence that includes specified information, including fostering accountability in state government services, and prioritizing the safety and security of artificial intelligence technologies used by state government.
CA A.B. 485
Status: Enacted
Requires each local agency to provide specified information to the public before approving an economic development subsidy for a warehouse distribution center, to hold hearings, and to report on those subsidies. Requires local agencies to submit a report to the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development providing specified information, including any net job loss or replacement due to the use of automation, artificial intelligence, or other technologies, if known.
CA A.B. 594
Status: Vetoed
Authorizes the Director of Technology to designate a position within the department to evaluate the uses of artificial intelligence in state government and to advise the director on incorporating artificial intelligence into state information technology strategic plans, policies, standards, and enterprise architecture. Requires the department, in consideration of recommendations of the Future of Work Commission, to adopt guidelines to govern the use and implementation of artificial intelligence.
CA A.B. 976
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Establishes in state government the Artificial Intelligence in State Government Services Commission composed of eight members, and would require the advisory commission to annually convene a public process to gather input on how artificial intelligence and data science could be used to improve state services. Requires the commission to propose a plan for soliciting artificial intelligence and data science related demonstration projects for critical state services.
CA A.B. 1576
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Requires the Secretary of Government Operations to appoint participants to an artificial intelligence working group. Requires the composition of the working group to be representative of California's demographic and cultural diversity. Requires the working group to evaluate the uses, risks, benefits, and legal implications associated with the development and deployment of artificial intelligence by California-based businesses.
CA ACR 125
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Urges policymakers in both federal and state government to explore ways to promote the development and use of new technologies to reduce bias and discrimination in hiring and help reduce discrimination in employment in the state.
CA S.B. 348
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Requires the director to devise a strategic plan designed to aid departments and agencies with the incorporation of artificial intelligence into state information technology strategic plans, policies, standards, and enterprise architecture to improve state services. Encourages the governor to appoint a special adviser on artificial intelligence to create a statewide strategic plan to utilize artificial technology to improve state services.
CA S.B. 444
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Requires any business entity doing business in California with 50 or more full-time employees, a contractor that performs services for such a business, and a vender that sells data or tangible goods to a such a business, to maintain a written record of the data used relating to any use of artificial intelligence.
CA S.B. 730
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Establishes the Commission on Tech Equity. Requires the commission to develop recommendations on a policy framework to manage the development, deployment, regulation, taxation and fair distribution of the benefits of innovation and technology, and submit its recommendations by a certain date.
CA SJR 6
Status: Adopted
Urges the President and the Congress of the United States to develop a comprehensive Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and to adopt a comprehensive artificial intelligence policy.
Connecticut
CT H.B. 6187
Status: Failed
Requires a study of the commercial and practical applications of artificial intelligence, prepares for the modernization of the state's economy through artificial intelligence.
CT H.B. 6889
Status: Failed
Provides educational subsidies for students studying artificial intelligence, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles or quantum computing, provides subsidies to students studying in fields related to emerging technologies if such students work in the state upon graduation.
Delaware
DE HCR 7
Status: Adopted
Recognizes the possible life-changing impact the rise of robotics, automation and artificial intelligence will have on Delawareans and encourages all branches of state government to implement plans to minimize the adverse effects of the rise of such technology.
Florida
FL H.B. 9047
Status: Failed
Relates to the appropriations project titled University of Florida Center for Artificial Intelligence; provides an appropriation.
Hawaii
HI H.B. 1080
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Requires the Hawaii Tourism Authority to host a global summit on artificial intelligence in 2020, authorizes the Hawaii Tourism Authority to contract the services of another entity to assist the Hawaii Tourism Authority in hosting the summit; makes an appropriation.
HI H.B. 1185
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Creates a legislative task force to investigate the application and the accompanying advantages and disadvantages of applying artificial intelligence to Hawaii's economy and government operations.
HI H.B. 1389
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Creates a legislative task force to investigate the application and the accompanying advantages and disadvantages of applying artificial intelligence to Hawaii's economy and government operations.
HI HCR 129
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the state to convene an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee to investigate how to implement, develop, and regulate artificial intelligence in the state.
HI HCR 156
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Urges the United States government to place a moratorium on the development, production, deployment, and use of lethal autonomous robotics and to encourage other nations to do the same.
HI HCR 171
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Hawaii Tourism Authority to convene a Global Artificial Intelligence Summit in 2020.
HI HCR 227
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to convene a working group on artificial intelligence.
HI HR 119
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the state to convene an artificial intelligence advisory committee to investigate how to implement, develop, and regulate artificial intelligence in the state.
HI HR 143
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Urges the United States government to place a moratorium on the development, production, deployment, and use of lethal autonomous robotics and to encourage other nations to do the same.
HI HR 153
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Hawaii Tourism Authority to convene a Global Artificial Intelligence Summit in 2020.
HI HR 202
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to convene a working group on artificial intelligence.
HI SCR 66
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Hawaii tourism authority to convene a global artificial intelligence summit in 2020.
HI SCR 175
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the state to convene an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee to investigate how to implement, develop, and regulate artificial intelligence in the state.
HI SR 44
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Requests the Hawaii tourism authority to convene a global artificial intelligence summit in 2020.
HI SR 142
Status: Adopted
Requests the state to convene an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee to investigate how to implement, develop, and regulate artificial intelligence in the state.
Idaho
ID HB 118
Status: Enacted
Promotes transparency and accountability in pre-trial risk assessment tools—algorithms— that help inform sentencing and bail decisions for defendants.
Illinois
IL H.B. 2557
Status: Enacted
Creates the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, provides that an employer that asks applicants to record video interviews and uses an artificial intelligence analysis of applicant submitted videos shall notify each applicant in writing before the interview that artificial intelligence may be used to analyze the applicant's facial expressions and consider the applicant's fitness for the position, provides each applicant with an information sheet before the interview.
Indiana
IN H.B. 1624
Status: Failed - Adjourned
Establishes the Information Technology Oversight Committee.
Massachusetts
MA H.B. 2701
Status: Failed
Relates to state agency automated decision making, artificial intelligence, transparency, fairness, and individual rights.
MA S.B. 1876
Status: Failed
Establishes a commission on transparency and use of artificial intelligence in government decision making.
Nevada
NV S.B. 488
Status: Failed
Revises provisions relating to businesses engaged in the development of emerging technologies.
New Jersey
NJ A.B. 5112 (2018)
Status: Failed - adjourned
Requires the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development to conduct a study and issue a report on the impact of artificial intelligence on economic growth.
NJ A.B. 5161 (2018)
Status: Failed - adjourned
Relates to the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act.
NJ S.B. 3619 (2018)
Status: Failed - adjourned
Concerns the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act.
New York
NY A.B. 1746
Status: Failed - adjourned
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation, repeals such commission a specified time after this act takes effect.
NY A.B. 8446
Status: Failed - adjourned
Establishes the Commission on the Future of Work within the Department of Labor to research and understand the impact of technology on workers, employers, and the economy of the state.
NY S.B. 3971
Status: Enacted
Creates a temporary state commission to study and investigate how to regulate artificial intelligence, robotics and automation, provides for the repeal after the expiration thereof.
Texas
S.B. 64
Status: Enacted
Each state agency and local government shall, in the administration of the agency or local government, consider using next generation technologies, including cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and artificial intelligence.
Vermont
VT H.B. 16
Status: Enacted
Requires the Artificial Intelligence Task Force, created by 2018 Acts and Resolves No. 137, Sec. 1 (H.B. 378), to submit a final report to the Senate Committee on Government Operations and the House Committee on Energy and Technology on or before Jan. 15, 2020.
Washington
WA H.B. 1655
Status: Pending - Carryover - Failed
Establishes guidelines for government procurement and use of automated decision systems in order to protect consumers, improve transparency, and create more market predictability.
WA S.B. 5527
Status: Pending - Carryover to 2020 - Failed
Establishes guidelines for government procurement and use of automated decision systems in order to protect consumers, improve transparency, and create more market predictability.