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AI-related bills passed into law in California, 2016–2025, the most of any state (Maryland: 28)
What the chart shows
California passed 62 AI-related bills into law between 2016 and 2025, the most of any state and more than twice Maryland’s 28. Virginia (25), Utah (24) and New York (18) follow.
California’s total is 15% of the 416 AI-related laws passed by all states over the period. At the other end, Missouri and Rhode Island passed none, and Alaska, South Carolina and Wyoming one each. The chart shows the top 15; choose All 50 to see every state.
Key numbers
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| California | 62 |
| Maryland | 28 |
| Virginia | 25 |
| Utah | 24 |
| New York | 18 |
| All 50 states | 416 |
How to read it
- Counts state bills passed into law whose final text includes the phrase “artificial intelligence”, plus AI-related laws listed in the Multistate AI Legislation Tracker.
- A count of laws, not of their scope: a broad act and a narrow amendment each count once.
- The report also shows a top-15 bar chart of the same data; its data file is labelled 2016–24, but its values match these 2016–2025 totals.
Source: AI Index, 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 8.4.6: Number of state-level AI-related bills passed into law in the United States by state, 2016–25 (sum). Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.
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