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Useful reference for researchers and policymakers monitoring U.S. state-level AI governance trends; tracks legislative volume and status but does not analyze bill content or safety implications in depth.
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Summary
MultiState tracks AI-related legislation across all 50 U.S. states in real time, documenting a rapid growth from under 200 bills in 2023 to over 1,561 bills introduced in 45 states by March 2026. The tracker covers a broad range of AI policy topics including generative AI, autonomous vehicles, facial recognition, regulatory sandboxes, and AI task forces. It serves as a comprehensive reference for monitoring the state-level legislative landscape around AI.
Key Points
- •AI bill introductions have grown dramatically: <200 in 2023, 600+ in 2024, 1,200 in 2025, and 1,561+ in 45 states by March 2026.
- •Nearly 100 AI-related bills were enacted into law in 2024 alone, though on average less than 15% of introduced bills become law.
- •Coverage is broad, including generative AI, facial recognition, autonomous vehicles, right-to-compute, AI sandboxes, and education/investment incentives.
- •Tracks legislative status in real time across all 50 states, noting which bills carry over between sessions and which expire.
- •Complements a separate state-by-state AI policy overview resource for understanding enacted laws vs. introduced bills.
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# Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation Tracker 2026: All 50 States (Updated 2026)
## State lawmakers across the country are increasingly addressing AI through legislation in 2026
As AI technologies have burst on the scene, state lawmakers have responded by addressing concerns with this ubiquitous technology through public policy. In 2023, we saw less than 200 bills introduced across state legislatures addressing the issue of AI. But that shifted in 2024 when MultiState tracked over 600 AI-related bills with nearly 100 enacted into law. That number reached 1,200 bills introduced across all 50 states in 2025. As of March 2026, state lawmakers in 45 states have already introduced 1,561 AI-related bills — and the legislative session is still underway.
Most states run on two year legislative sessions from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years (the exceptions are New Jersey and Virginia, which both begin a new two year session in 2026 and Texas, Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, which only hold one legislative session every two years in the odd-numbered year). Of the 44 states that begin the second year of a two-year session in 2026, [23 of those states](https://www.multistate.us/resources/2026-legislative-session-dates) allow bills to carry over from the previous year to the new year. Meanwhile, in the 21 non-carry over states, the bills that did not make it past the finish line by the end of 2025 are now dead and will need to be reintroduced in 2026.
Keep an eye on the bills we're tracking with the state-by-state bill tracking map below. For a comprehensive view of current state laws related to AI, see our [state-by-state AI policy overviews](https://www.multistate.ai/state-by-state-ai-policy-overviews).
_A note on methodology_ _: MultiState_ [_tracks_](https://www.multistate.ai/legislative-tracking) _hundreds of thousands of bills throughout the legislative process for hundreds of clients on a vast variety of topics. Each client has a different perspective on why they care about certain bills, and we customize our tracking and analysis for each client. Our tracking of "AI-related" bills below is an amalgamation of many different perspectives on "artificial intelligence" organized internally into dozens of AI subtopics. For this purpose, "AI-related" is defined broadly, and includes legislation relating to generative AI, forming task forces and committees to_ [_study AI policy_](https://www.multistate.ai/states-studying-ai) _, "_ [_right to compute_](https://www.multistate.ai/updates/vol-59) _" and_ [_AI regulatory sandboxes_](https://www.multistate.ai/updates/vol-53) _, budget items to incentivize AI-related investment in a state or boost education on using AI, as well as legislation related to other "AI" related technologies such as_ [_autonomous vehicles_](https://www.multistate.ai/autonomous-vehicles) _and_ [_facial recognition_](https://www.multistate.ai/facial-recognition-technologies) _systems
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