California continues to set the pace for digital privacy reform, enacting three groundbreaking laws that will reshape how personal information is handled across the state. On October 8, 2025, Governor Newsom signed three new privacy bills, which will allow California consumers to gain greater control over their personal information, while businesses, data brokers, and social media platforms will face new transparency and compliance obligations.
Key point: Recent legislative efforts in Massachusetts, seeking to add another comprehensive data privacy law to the national patchwork of state laws, and in California enacting a law to regulate AI development, occurred this week when the Massachusetts Senate unanimously sent Senate Bill 2608 to the state House, and California enacted the nation’s second substantive state law regulating AI.
Keypoint: The California legislature is considering several bills that, if passed, would add to the nation’s emerging legal patchwork governing the use of artificial intelligence.
In mid-May, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act (CAIA) into law, making Colorado the first state to enact legislation governing the use of high-risk artificial intelligence systems. Earlier this year, Utah enacted SB 149, which creates limited obligations for private sector companies deploying generative artificial intelligence, including disclosing its use.
The California legislature is currently considering seven AI-related bills that, if passed, would add to the growing patchwork of state AI laws. All of these bills have passed their chamber of origin and are currently being considered by the opposite chamber. While many state legislatures have already closed for the year, California’s legislative session does not end until August 31, 2024, meaning that there is still time for California to pass one or more bills.
In the below article, we briefly summarize these bills (as they are currently drafted) and identify their current status. We previously discussed four of these bills in our April 25 AI Legislation Update.