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# US states passed 150 AI-related laws in 2025, up from 132 in 2024 and 9 in 2020
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/us-state-ai-laws-per-year/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:46:13.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:03:39.000Z
- Description: US state legislatures passed 150 AI-related laws in 2025, up 14% from 132 in 2024 and up from 9 in 2020. Over 2016–2025 they passed 416.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, AI Regulation, AI in the US, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-regulation, #country-us

150

▲ 14% vs 2024

AI-related bills passed into law by US states in 2025

20162025

## What the chart shows

US state legislatures passed 150 AI-related bills into law in 2025, up 14% from 132 in 2024\. In 2020 the count was 9, and in 2016 and 2017 it was one a year.

Most of the rise came after 2022: states passed 27 AI-related laws that year, 49 in 2023 and 132 in 2024\. Over 2016–2025 they passed 416, of which California alone passed 62 ([related chart](https://aiadoption.org/data/ai-laws-by-us-state/)).

## Key numbers

| Measure          | Value |
| ---------------- | ----- |
| 2025             | 150   |
| 2024             | 132   |
| 2023             | 49    |
| 2022             | 27    |
| 2020             | 9     |
| Total, 2016–2025 | 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. The AI Index notes this likely captures only part of state AI policy.
- Covers all 50 states. A count of laws, not of their scope.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2026, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 8.4.4: *Number of AI-related bills passed into law by all US states, 2016–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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