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 03/26/25 - Amended Senate
 02/21/25 - Introduced

 SB-813 California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission: artificial intelligence safety standards.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

SB813:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
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 Assembly
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 June 16, 2026

 Amended
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 Senate
 January 05, 2026

 Amended
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 Senate
 May 01, 2025

 Amended
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 Senate
 March 26, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 813

Introduced by Senator McNerney
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Bauer-Kahan and Lowenthal)

February 21, 2025

An act to add Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 8898) to Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code, relating to artificial intelligence.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 813, as amended, McNerney.
 California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission: artificial intelligence safety standards.

Existing law requires, on or before September 1, 2024, the Department of Technology, within the Government Operations Agency, to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency. Existing law requires the department to annually submit a report of that comprehensive inventory to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization.

Existing law, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, among other things related to ensuring the safety of certain artificial intelligence models, requires a large frontier developer to write, implement, and clearly
 and conspicuously publish on its internet website a frontier AI framework that applies to the large frontier developer’s frontier models and describes how the large frontier developer approaches, among other things, incorporating national standards, international standards, and industry-consensus best practices into its frontier AI framework.

This bill would require the Business and Consumer Services Agency to establish, on or before July 1, 2027, the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission and would provide for its membership, as specified. The bill would make this provision inoperative if AB 1709 of the 2025–26 Regular Session is enacted and the e-Safety Advisory Commission is established pursuant to that measure.

This bill would require either the California Artificial Intelligence Standards and Safety Commission or the e-Safety Advisory Commission, as specified, to take certain actions related
 to the safety of artificial intelligence, including developing standards for the assessment of AI systems and models by AI auditors, developing procedures for determining whether to suspend or terminate the registration of an AI auditor, and developing criteria for determining whether an AI auditor qualifies as an independent verification organization, as specified.

This bill would make its operation contingent upon the enactment of AB 1405 of the 2025–26 Regular Session.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) California is the global leader in artificial intelligence innovation and is home to the most artificial intelligence companies, researchers, and developers in the world.

(b) Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to drive economic growth, improve public services, advance scientific discovery, and enhance the quality of life for Californians.

(c) As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly capable and widely deployed, ensuring their safe,
 secure, and trustworthy development and use is essential to protecting consumers, workers, businesses, and the public.

(d) California has enacted laws addressing specific risks associated wi