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KentuckySB 42025 Regular SessionSenate

AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.

Sponsored By: Amanda Mays Bledsoe (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Courts, CircuitData ProcessingEffective Dates, EmergencyElections and VotingPublic EthicsPurchasingScience and TechnologyState AgenciesState EmployeesInformation TechnologyEthicsAdministrative Regulations and ProceedingsCivil ActionsCivil ProcedureCommunicationsReports MandatedTechnology

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

More safeguards for government AI decisions

State entities must clearly disclose covered AI use in decisions, decision support, outputs, and public information, including third-party product information. For decisions affecting Kentucky citizens outside the agency, they must explain AI's role and human involvement. Appeal options must be readily available for consequential decisions involving AI. High-risk AI cannot make decisions with major legal or similar effects without a documented risk program addressing bias and following ISO/IEC 42001 or another recognized framework. State AI systems must use only needed data, restrict access to state-held personal information, secure data, and set retention periods.

Kentucky agencies face new AI oversight

The Commonwealth Office of Technology must create an AI oversight committee, system inventory, standards, and approval process. Covered agencies using state technology must verify generative and high-risk AI use and development, keep records, and provide risk-based human review. The technology director must document reviews of discrimination risks, benefits, human oversight, safeguards, and data quality. The office must train state employees on AI benefits, risks, and allowed uses. Regulations and the first legislative AI report are due December 1, 2025; reports are required annually afterward.

Candidates can challenge fake election media

Candidates can sue sponsors over covered, nonconsensual AI-altered audio or video that realistically but falsely changes their appearance, actions, or speech. The communication must reach the relevant electorate within 45 days before a primary or regular election. Candidates must file in their home county's Circuit Court and prove synthetic-media use by clear and convincing evidence. Courts may order a clear disclosure; a qualifying disclosure already attached to the content provides a defense. Ignoring disclosure orders triggers statutory penalties, and either side may receive reasonable attorney's fees and costs if it wins.

Media gain shields with disclosure duties

Media outlets and advertising sales representatives generally have protection from liability under the synthetic-election-media remedy. They can face liability for intentionally removing a disclosure and, after notice, failing to restore it or remove the communication. They can also face liability for changing content into synthetic media, subject to the law's defenses. These exceptions do not apply to specified federally licensed broadcasts covered by federal candidate-airtime law. Online service providers and users retain applicable federal protections for content supplied by others, subject to the statute's liability rules.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Amanda Mays Bledsoe

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Brandon J. Storm

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 149 • No: 17

Senate vote • 3/13/2025

passed

Yes: 33 • No: 4

House vote • 3/13/2025

3rd reading, passed

Yes: 86 • No: 10

Senate vote • 2/28/2025

3rd reading, passed

Yes: 30 • No: 3

Actions Timeline

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 66)

    3/24/2025

  2. delivered to Governor

    3/13/2025

  3. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House

    3/13/2025Senate

  4. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate

    3/13/2025Senate

  5. passed 33-4 with Committee Substitute (1)

    3/13/2025Senate

  6. Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)

    3/13/2025Senate

  7. posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)

    3/13/2025House

  8. to Rules (S)

    3/13/2025Senate

  9. received in Senate

    3/13/2025Senate

  10. 3rd reading, passed 86-10 with Committee Substitute (1)

    3/13/2025House

  11. placed in the Orders of the Day

    3/13/2025House

  12. taken from Rules

    3/13/2025House

  13. reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)

    3/12/2025House

  14. returned to Small Business & Information Technology (H)

    3/11/2025House

  15. 2nd reading

    3/11/2025House

  16. taken from Small Business & Information Technology (H)

    3/11/2025House

  17. to Small Business & Information Technology (H)

    3/7/2025House

  18. returned to Committee on Committees (H)

    3/7/2025House

  19. 1st reading

    3/7/2025House

  20. taken from Committee on Committees (H)

    3/7/2025House

  21. to Committee on Committees (H)

    3/4/2025House

  22. received in House

    3/4/2025House

  23. 3rd reading, passed 30-3

    2/28/2025Senate

  24. floor amendment (1) filed

    2/28/2025Senate

  25. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025

    2/27/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Current

    3/13/2025

    PDF

  • Introduced

    2/28/2025

    PDF

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