Executive Summary Seven states now restrict artificial intelligence in mental and behavioral health care. Illinois and Nevada acted in 2025. Colorado, Maine, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Vermont followed in 2026, and five of those seven took effect between June and August 2026. They converge on one principle and diverge on almost everything else. Illinois fines…
Executive Summary The Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act required the Texas Attorney General to publish a public AI complaint mechanism no later than September 1, 2026. The office moved ahead of that deadline. The page is already live, and the complaint portal behind it accepts submissions in under 15 minutes. TRAIGA reaches far beyond…
Executive Summary On July 13, 2026, the Department of War suspended CMMC Phase II, scheduled to begin November 10, 2026, putting third party certification assessments on hold. DFARS clause 252.204-7012 was not suspended, amended, or paused. Contractors and subcontractors subject to it that process, store, or transmit covered defense information must still implement the 110…
Executive Summary NIH policy notice NOT-OD-25-132, effective September 25, 2025, states that NIH will not consider applications substantially developed by AI to be the original ideas of applicants. Discovery after an award can lead to referral to the Office of Research Integrity, disallowed costs, withheld awards, suspension, and possible termination. This is an NIH policy…
Executive Summary Only 12 percent of manufacturing leaders say they are confident their organization could pass an independent AI governance audit, compared with 22 percent across all industries, according to Grant Thornton’s 2026 AI Impact Survey. Just 7 percent have a defined and tested AI incident response playbook, the lowest rate of any sector surveyed….
Executive Summary The California AI Transparency Act became operative on August 2, 2026, after AB 853 moved the date back from January 1, 2026. As of publication no court has enjoined it, so treat it as enforceable. The law regulates generative AI providers with more than 1,000,000 monthly visitors or users, and its disclosure duties…
Executive Summary Four states now restrict specified forms of algorithmic and coordinated rent pricing: New York effective December 15, 2025, California and Connecticut January 1, 2026, and New Jersey July 1, 2027. These are not blanket bans on software or machine learning in rent setting. They target tools that pool or coordinate data across unaffiliated…
Executive Summary AI related lawyer duties are increasingly enforced through existing ethics rules and court sanctions authority. New York added a statewide court rule, 22 NYCRR Part 161, adopted March 25, 2026 and effective June 1, 2026 across the Unified Court System. Alabama issued Formal Opinion 2026-01, among the most operationally detailed state bar AI…
Executive Summary The SEC Division of Examinations published its fiscal year 2026 priorities on November 17, 2025. Examiners will assess whether advisers have policies and procedures adequate to monitor and supervise their AI use, and will review the accuracy of what firms say about their AI capabilities. A Charles Schwab study published January 22, 2026…
Executive Summary Colorado SB 24-205, the law every HR vendor told you to prepare for, was enacted in 2024 but never became operative. Its compliance date slipped from February 1, 2026 to June 30, 2026, a federal court stayed enforcement on April 27, 2026, and the legislature repealed and reenacted the framework before any obligation…
