12 signed statutes form the current legal baseline — nine in force today and three taking effect soon — spanning seven sectors. Each entry is explained in plain English and traced to its Public Act or ILGA record.
| Bill | Law | Public Act | Sector | Effective | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 1806 | WOPR Act | PA 104-0054 | Healthcare | August 1, 2025 | In force |
| HB 3773 | AI in Employment — Illinois Human Rights Act | PA 103-0804 | Employment | January 1, 2026 | In force |
| HB 4762 | Digital Voice & Likeness Protection | PA 103-0830 | IP / Creative | August 9, 2024 | In force |
| HB 4875 | Right of Publicity — AI Digital Replicas | PA 103-0836 | IP / Creative | January 1, 2025 | In force |
| SB 1920 | Public Education AI Guidelines | PA 104-0399 | Education | January 1, 2026 | In force |
| HB 4623 | Sexually Explicit Digital Image Offenses | PA 103-0825 | Criminal / Child Safety | January 1, 2025 | In force |
| 820 ILCS 42 | AI Video Interview Act | PA 101-0260 | Employment | January 1, 2020 | In force |
| HB 1859 | Community College AI Instruction Limit | PA 104-0201 | Education | January 1, 2026 | In force |
| HB 3851 | AI Cyberbullying — School Code Amendment | PA 104-0338 | Education | July 1, 2026 | In force |
| SB 318 | Ticket Bot Prevention Act | PA 104-0474 | Consumer Protection | January 1, 2027 | Effective soon |
| SB 315 | AI Safety Measures Act | PA 104-0538 | Frontier AI | January 1, 2027 | Effective soon |
| SB 3114 | Transparency in Downcoding Act | PA 104-0568 | Healthcare | January 1, 2028 | Effective soon |
Limits AI in covered therapy to administrative or supplementary support under licensed-professional responsibility; bars independent therapeutic decisions, direct therapeutic communication, and emotion detection.
Bans discriminatory effects from AI in covered employment decisions, prohibits ZIP codes as protected-class proxies, and requires notice of covered AI use.
For personal or professional service agreements entered after August 9, 2024, limits enforcement of certain digital-replica provisions as to new performances fixed from January 1, 2026 when all three statutory defects coincide.
Extends the Illinois Right of Publicity Act to reach distribution of sound recordings or audiovisual works with an unauthorized digital replica when the distributor actually knows the replica is unauthorized.
Directs the Illinois State Board of Education to develop and update statewide guidance for AI use in elementary and secondary education.
Creates offenses for obscene depictions of purported children, including computer-generated depictions, and for nonconsensual dissemination of sexually explicit digitized depictions of identifiable persons.
Requires notice, a plain-language explanation, and applicant consent before AI is used to analyze a recorded job interview.
Bars a community-college course from using AI as the sole source of instruction in place of a qualified faculty member, while allowing AI to augment teaching.
Expands the Illinois School Code's bullying and cyberbullying definitions to include posting or distributing sexually explicit images and, from the 2026–27 school year, certain unauthorized digital replicas of students.
Prohibits creating or using bots to exceed online ticket-purchase limits or bypass sales-volume controls; covered event-facility owners, operators, and sales agents must report known violations to the Illinois Attorney General.
Sets distinct transparency and incident-reporting duties for frontier developers and additional framework, audit and filing duties for large frontier developers, with staged dates and separate AG and IEMA-OHS mechanisms.
Lets covered health care payors use automated tools to flag claims for possible downcoding but requires a natural person to make or review every downcoding determination, and bars downcoding based solely on reported diagnosis codes.