Connecticut SB 5: AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKFORCE PIPELINE AND JOB CREATION TASK FORCE.

Bill Text

Substitute Senate Bill No. 5

Public Act No. 26-15

AN ACT CONCERNING ONLINE SAFETY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2026) (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Artificial intelligence technology" means any computer system,
application or other product that uses or incorporates one or more forms
of artificial intelligence, as defined in section 17 of this act;
(2) "Consumer" means an individual who is a resident of this state;
(3) "Person" means an individual, association, corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, trust or other legal entity;
(4) "Subscription" means an agreement between a subscription-based
provider and a consumer under which the subscription-based provider
offers an artificial intelligence technology to the consumer in exchange
for a fee, remuneration or compensation of any kind from the consumer;
and
(5) "Subscription-based provider" means a person doing business in
the state who provides, or offers to provide, an artificial intelligence
technology to a consumer pursuant to a subscription.

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(b) (1) No subscription-based provider shall enter into or renew a
subscription with a consumer, or collect any fee, remuneration or
compensation of any kind from a consumer for an initial subscription or
subscription renewal, unless:
(A) The subscription-based provider has provided to the consumer a
written notice disclosing the key terms and conditions of the
subscription; and
(B) The consumer has provided to the subscription-based provider a
written notice disclosing that the consumer has accepted the key terms
and conditions of the subscription.
(2) The written notice required under subparagraph (A) of
subdivision (1) of this subsection shall, at a minimum, set forth:
(A) In the case of an initial subscription, material information that is
sufficient to enable a reasonable consumer to decide whether to
purchase or maintain the subscription, which information shall include,
but need not be limited to:
(i) Any quantitative or qualitative limitations the subscription-based
provider may impose under the terms of such subscription, including,
but not limited to, any such limitations the subscription-based provider
may impose in response to conduct by the consumer under such
subscription; and
(ii) Whether the subscription-based provider has discretion to limit
or eliminate the consumer's access to, or reduce the quantity or quality
of, any functionality of the artificial intelligence technology offered
under such subscription; and
(B) In the case of a subscription renewal:
(i) Any quantitative or qualitative limitations described in

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subparagraph (A)(i) of this subdivision that (I) will be imposed for the
first time during the subscription renewal term, or (II) were imposed for
the immediately preceding subscription term but have been modified
for the subscription renewal term; and
(ii) Any discretion described in subparagraph (A)(ii) of this
subdivision that the subscription-based provider (I) will be able to
exercise for the first time during the subscription renewal term, or (II)
was able to exercise during the immediately preceding subscription
term but has been modified for the subscription renewal term.
(c) Any violation of the provisions of subsection (b) of this section
shall constitute an unfair or deceptive trade practice for the purposes of
subsection (a) of section 42-110b of the general statutes and shall be
enforced solely by the Attorney General. The provisions of section 42-
110g of the general statutes shall not apply to any such violation.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as providing the basis for a
private right of action.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2026) (a) As used in this section:
(1) "Catastrophic risk" (A) means any foreseeable and material risk
that the development, storage, use or deployment of a frontier model by
a frontier developer will materially contribute to the death of, or serious
injury to, more than fifty individuals, or more than one billion dollars in
damage to covered property, or the loss of more than one billion dollars
of covered property, arising from any single incident in which the
frontier model (i) provides expert-level assistance in the creation or
release of a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapon, or (ii)
engages in any conduct, with no meaningful human oversight,
intervention or supervision, that constitutes a cyberattack or, if an
individual had engaged in such conduct, would constitute the crime of
murder, assault, extortion or theft, including, but not limited to, theft by
false pretense, and (B) does not include any foreseeable and material

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risk posed by (i) any information that a foundation model outputs if
such information is otherwise