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The 50-State AI Law Atlas
Every state. Every AI law. One map. Compliance teams track this patchwork by hand, in spreadsheets, monthly. This map holds all of it: 54 enacted laws, 21 signed and waiting on their effective dates, and 3 pending bills across 51 jurisdictions, every entry sourced to the official legislature page. Click a state. Filter by category. Watch what changed.
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Start with the question you came in with
Every jurisdiction has its own page answering it, with citations, dates, summaries and official sources. These are the ten with the most laws on the books; the map above reaches all 51.
- What AI laws does Illinois have?6
- What AI laws does Utah have?6
- What AI laws does California have?5
- What AI laws does Colorado have?5
- What AI laws does New York (incl. NYC) have?4
- What AI laws does Washington have?4
- What AI laws does Maine have?3
- What AI laws does Rhode Island have?3
- What AI laws does Alabama have?2
- What AI laws does Florida have?2
Or cut the map a different way:
- Which states regulate AI in hiring?
- Which states have chatbot safety laws?
- Which states ban election deepfakes?
- Which states regulate AI in healthcare?
- Which states have comprehensive AI acts?
- What happened to the Colorado AI Act?
- Which AI laws take effect in January 2027?
- Can Washington override state AI laws?
The Wave
Drag the year from 2021 to 2027 and watch AI law arrive state by state, including the January 2027 wall of effective dates.
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Federal vs States
The December 2025 executive order, the DOJ task force, the litigation, and the state laws Washington named, drawn as collision lines.
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Method
Sources, verification cadence, status rules, known caveats, and the full dataset changelog. Read this before citing the atlas.
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Sources: state legislatures, NCSL, official journals. Dataset build 2026-08-02. Laws shown are enacted unless marked pending. Pending bills never count as law.
Mapping the EU instead? Start in the EU AI Act Explorer, compare jurisdictions in the Global AI Governance Arena, or cross the four EU acts in the EU Cross-Compliance Graph.