Making sense of Illinois’ stack of AI bills: Here are six Senate measures to watch

Legislators have introduced dozens of AI-related bills in Springfield this session. Members of the Senate will start sorting through them all on Thursday, April 9.

April 8, 2026 — With more than 50 AI-related bills filed so far in 2026, the Illinois legislature is one of the nation’s most active when it comes to artificial intelligence.

How to make sense of it all? Members of the Senate will be diving into the stack in a long work session scheduled for Thursday, April 9. The Senate Executive Subcommittee on AI and Social Media Subject Matter Hearing is an informational session that aims to see where the common issues and solutions lie. Maybe some of these bills can be combined, for instance. And measures prioritized.

We’re highlighting six bills that we find most compelling and intriguing, below, followed by a full roster of the Senate’s AI bills broken out into various categories.

Six bills to prioritize

Kids and Chatbot Safety: SB 3262 & SB 3384

There are currently five Illinois bills (listed below) that touch on kids and AI chatbot safety. All of them are pretty good, and we like Sen. Mary Edly-Allen’s SB 3262 and Sen. Laura Ellman’s SB 3384 as solid foundations.

SB 3262 would prohibit an operator of a companion AI product from deploying or operating a product that incorporates harmful features specified in the bill. The measure also would require auditing and reporting. SB 3262 would require an operator to provide a clear notification during an interaction with a companion AI product informing the user that the user is communicating with a companion product. It also requires the implementation of mandatory user safeguards, including a crisis intervention protocol.

SB 3384 would require similar safety measures: protocols to detect and address suicidal ideation or expressions of self-harm by a user, clear and conspicuous notification to a user that states that the user is not communicating with a human.

Liability for AI-caused harms: SB 3502

Sen. Rachel Ventura’s SB 3502, the Artificial Intelligence Design Requirements Act, sets provisions concerning product liability actions brought against a developer of an AI system for defective design, failure to contain adequate instructions or warnings, and failure to conform to an express warranty.

Liability is the hot topic in AI policy, and Sen. Ventura’s measure gives her colleagues a great introduction to the issue.

Catastrophic risk management: SB 3312

SB 3312, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act from Sen. Edly-Allen, would require large frontier developers to adopt and publish a frontier AI framework addressing catastrophic risk management, transparency, and cybersecurity.

Disclosure and transparency: SB 3263

SB 3263, the Artificial Intelligence Provenance Data Act, requires an AI tool provider to make available a provenance label reading tool. Provides that a covered artificial intelligence tool provider shall include a provenance label in any image, video, or audio content instance created by its artificial intelligence.

Medical use: AI and pharmaceuticals: SB 2993

Sen. Ventura’s SB 2993 would prohibit an AI system from prescribing medication. This seems like a very basic and necessary protection. Illinois was one of the earliest states to take on the issue of AI in health care, and this bill would extend the state’s forward-looking record.

Illinois Senate: AI bills in play

AI and kids

Chatbot safety

SB 3261, the AI Public Safety and Child Protection Transparency Act, on kids and chatbot safety. (Sen. Edly-Allen, et al)

SB 3262, the Companion AI Protection Act, regarding companion chatbots. (Sen. Edly-Allen)

SB 3368, the Chatbot Response Liability Act. (Sen. Rezin)

SB 3384, the AI Companion Model Safety Act. (Sen. Ellman)

SB 3264, the Online Safety Act, Online Safety Act, regarding social media platforms. (Sen. Ventura)

Online age verification

SB 3945, the Adult Content Age Verification Act. (Sen. Harriss)

SB 3977, the Children's Social Media Safety Act, concerning age verification. (Sen. Ellman)

SB 4046, the Social Media Age Restriction Act, concerning age verification. (Sen. Rezin)

Social media and addictive algorithms

SB 3454, the Better Social Media Feeds Act, concerns online platforms and algorithms (Sen. Rezin)

Guidance to schools re using and teaching AI

SB 3358 directs the State Board of Education to develop statewide guidance on the use of technology-based learning resources in elementary and secondary education. (Sen. Ellman)

SB 3492 directs the State Board of Education to provide guidance to school districts concerning best practices for teaching AI, quantum computing, etc. (Sen. Preston)

SB 3735, the Student Educational Technologies Rights Act, giving students and parents the right to: opt out of school-issued personal electronic devices, electronic textbooks, etc. (Sen. Martwick)

AI and consumer protection

Algorithmic pricing, surveillance data

SB 1996 concerns algorithmic pricing in residential rental properties. (Sen. Guzmán)

SB 3678 amends the Landlord and Tenant Act, prohibiting noncompete agreements and the use of price coordination services. (Sen. Simmons)

SB 2255, the Surveillance-Based Price and Wage Discrimination Act, prohibits the use of surveillance data as part of an automated decision system to inform the individualized price assessed to a consumer for goods or services. (Sen. Peters, et al)

SB 3027 amends the Fair Patient Billing Act: Prohibits hospitals from using artificial intelligence to set or influence health care pricing. (Sen. Simmons)

SB 3602 prohibits AI bots from purchasing event tickets. (Sen. Stadelman)

Fraud reporting

SB 2823 amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, requires social media companies to make available a 24-hour toll-free telephone number through which an account holder may contact a live customer service agent to report fraudulent activity on the user’s account. (Sen. Stadelman, et al)

Consumer data privacy

SB 3180, the AI Data Privacy Act, prohibits a deployer from training an AI model on a user's data and retaining the training data indefinitely unless specified conditions are satisfied. (Sen. Ventura)

AI disclosure and transparency

SB 3263, the Artificial Intelligence Provenance Data Act, requires an AI tool provider to make available a provenance label reading tool. Provides that a covered artificial intelligence tool provider shall include a provenance label in any image, video, or audio content instance created by its artificial intelligence. (Sen. Edly-Allen)

Consumer deception

SB 2995 amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act: Prohibits the use of AI while engaging in trade and commerce to communicate with a consumer in a manner that may mislead or deceive a reasonable person. (Sen. Ventura)

SB 3901 amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, concerning the misuse of AI in the fabrication of evidence that can be fake, manipulated, or non-existent that can have a profound effect in family law cases. (Sen. Edly-Allen)

Catastrophic risk management

SB 3312, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act, requires large frontier developers to adopt and publish a frontier AI framework addressing catastrophic risk management, transparency, and cybersecurity. (Sen. Edly-Allen)

Harms and liability

SB 3384, the AI Companion Model Safety Act, is cross-listed under “Kids and chatbots,” above, but it deals largely with questions of liability with regard to harm caused by AI chabots. (Sen. Ellman)

SB 3444, the Artificial Intelligence Safety Act, provides that a developer of a frontier AI model shall not be held liable for critical harms caused by the model if the developer did not intentionally or recklessly cause the critical harms and the developer publishes a safety and security protocol and transparency report on its website. (Sen. Cunningham)

SB 3502, the Artificial Intelligence Design Requirements Act, sets provisions concerning product liability actions brought against a developer of an AI system for defective design, failure to contain adequate instructions or warnings, and failure to conform to an express warranty. (Sen. Ventura, et al)

AI and the workforce

SB 2927 calls on the Dept. of Commerce to identify strategies to protect jobs at risk from AI. (Sen. Simmons)

SB 2993 prohibits an AI system from prescribing medication. (Sen. Ventura)

SB 3571 requires the disclosure of AI-related job impacts as part of a mass layoff notification. (Sen. Simmons)

SB 3601 requires that a state licensee must prominently disclose when a person who is paying for a service provided by the licensee is interacting with AI. (Sen. Stadelman)

SB 3702 amends the Nurse Practice Act to prohibit the use of AI for certain practices in nursing. (Sen. Guzmán)

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