Sept. 30, 2026 — California Gov. Gavin Newsom earlier today signed 11 more AI safety bills into law, capping a 2026 legislative year that saw nearly 30 AI-related measures enacted.
Today was the final day on which Newsom could sign or veto bills passed by the California legislature.
“AI should expand opportunity, not come at the expense of workers and families,” Newsom said at today’s bill signing ceremony. “As this technology reshapes the workplace, California is putting people at the center, ensuring we all have a voice in the decisions shaping their future”
All 11 AI-related bills signed today
The bills signed today included:
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AB 1331: A bill limiting workplace surveillance, including limits on the collection of personal data. (Sponsor: Asm. Sade Elhawary)
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AB 1883: A bill that limits the collection of workplace data, including neural data or surveillance that tracks a worker’s emotional state. (Sponsor: Asm. Isaac Bryan)
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AB 1979: A bill that concerns the use of AI in health care services, A business that offers a health care chatbot to a consumer would be considered a provider of health care subject to the requirements of the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA). (Sponsor: Asm. Mia Bonta)
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AB 2392: A bill that concerns the procurement of generative artificial intelligence systems in public postsecondary educational institutions. (Sponsor: Asm. Mike Fong)
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AB 2713 updates the existing California AI Transparency Act. The Act currently requires a large online platform to provide a user interface that makes information clearly and conspicuously available to users. The act requires that information to include whether provenance data or digital signatures are available. This bill would instead require that information to include whether provenance data or digital signatures are embedded into the content. (Sponsors: Asm. Buffy Wicks, Asm Cecilia Aguiar-Curry)
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SB 503 concerns AI systems used in health care. The measure requires developers and deployers of AI-driven clinical support systems to make reasonable efforts to identify reasonably foreseeable risks for biased impacts resulting from deployment of the system in health programs. Developers and deployers are required to describe the intended uses and known or reasonably foreseeable risks associated with the use of the clinical decision support system, and make reasonable efforts to mitigate known or reasonably foreseeable risk for biased impacts. (Sponsor: Sen. Akilah Weber Pierson)
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SB 947 establishes worker protections regarding the use of AI and automated decision systems (ADS). (Sponsor: Sen. Jerry McNerney)
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SB 951 is a digital displacement notice bill, requiring 90-day notice from certain covered employers before any technological displacement affecting 25% or more of the workforce. (Sponsor: Sen. Eloise Gómez Reyes)
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SB 1000 modifies existing law regarding AI disclosure and provenance data to strengthen it and update it to meet evolving technological best practices. (Sponsor: Sen. Josh Becker)
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SB 1111 concerns AI and digital replicas. Existing law prohibits the false impersonation of another person with the intent to steal or defraud. This bill would clarify that false impersonation includes the use of a digital replica with the intent to impersonate another. (Sponsor: Sen. Angelique Ashby)
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SB 1159 specifies that, for purposes of the California Public Records Act and other open meeting acts, “person,” “interested person,” “participant,” “member of the public,” and any other similar terms do not include artificial intelligence systems, autonomous agents, robots, or other nonhuman entities, whether physical or digital. (Sponsor: Sen. Christopher Cabaldon)
This is a late-breaking story. We will follow up with further coverage of the AI bills signed into law later this week.
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