A bounded reference to selected enacted measures and their limits, updated October 5, 2026. Provision verification dates appear separately from this analysis date.
In force since 2026-01-01 · provision verified 2026-10-05
SB 53 requires covered large frontier developers to publish safety frameworks and addresses critical safety incidents, whistleblower protection, and state oversight. Coverage depends on statutory definitions; the duties do not apply identically to every developer or AI product.
California connects developer transparency to institutional oversight. The framework is a model-level intervention, so an application deployer must first establish whether it falls within the covered developer class. This page does not treat a public framework as certification that a model is safe.
Review AB 853 phased transparency duties, AB 2013 training data disclosures, chatbot and police-report laws, 2026 amendments, and implementation. Selected current and concluded bills, agency rules, enforcement, and litigation have not been comprehensively screened. An omitted measure is not a finding that no relevant law exists.
This update expands the existing selected-law baseline using official legislative texts, codification, bill histories, and agency material. It distinguishes the act’s effective date from later duties and does not infer implementation from the passage of a deadline.
The analysis date is not a new verification date for every provision. Earlier dates remain where final text or date evidence was inaccessible. Only the separately identified in-force records enter the national export; proposed, future, and uncertain measures are excluded.
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