Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Halfway — passed one chamber
One of the two groups of lawmakers voted yes. Now the other group gets to vote.
Next: the other chamber takes it up — committee first, then a vote.
In plain words
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Fiscal Summary STATE GOVERNMENTEXPENDITURESGeneral FundFY26-27$190,400FY27-28 & Subsequent Years$376,400Total Positions Required: 2 Bill Summary This bill prohibits a frontier model developer, excluding an accredited college or university to the extent that the college or university is developing or using frontier models exclusively for academic research purposes, or a person who makes a covered chatbot, which is a service that allows an ordinary person to have conversations where humanlike responses are generated by a foundation model, is foreseeably likely to be accessed by minors, and has at least 1 million monthly active users, available in this state and who, together with the person's affiliates, collectively had an annual revenue of at least $25 million ("large chatbot provider") from making a materially false or misleading statement about a catastrophic risk or a child safety risk (together, "covered risk") from the frontier developer or large chatbot provider's activities or their management of covered risks. Further, a frontier developer who together with its affiliates collectively had annual revenue of at least $500 million ("large frontier developer") and a large chatbot provider is prohibited from making a materially false or misleading statement about its implementation of, or compliance with, its public safety plan or child safety plan. Large Frontier Developers This bill requires a large frontier developer to implement and clearly publish on its website a public safety plan that describes in detail how the large frontier developer defines and assesses thresholds used by the developer to determine whether a frontier model has capabilities that could pose a catastrophic risk. As used in this bill, a "catastrophic risk" means a foreseeable and material risk that a frontier developer's development, storage, use, or de
