Proposed State Privacy and AI Law Update: June 1, 2026

145 AI laws passed in 2025 and privacy teams aren't catching a break

145 AI-related laws were enacted by state legislatures in 2025, and more than 1,000 additional bills were introduced or revised, according to DataGrail’s Privacy and AI Trends Report 2026. Average cost of manual data subject request management (Source: DataGrail) Shadow AI risks Of the 2,400 popular business software providers that advertised AI capabilities, 63.6% did not disclose third-party AI subprocessors in their legal documentation, expos…

Proposed State Privacy and AI Law Update: June 1, 2026

Key point: Vermont’s legislature passed a consumer data privacy bill, Illinois’ legislature passed an AI frontier model bill, and eight bills crossed chambers in California.Below is the twentieth update on the status of proposed state privacy and AI legislation in 2026. With the state legislative activity slowing, we have combined our weekly privacy and AI posts.What’s NewThe big news last week was Vermont’s legislature passing a consumer data p…