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Georgia General Assembly · SB 540 · Senate Date Signed by Governor (Act 518)

Online Internet Safety; certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; require

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Officially: “A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 39 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to online internet safety, so as to require certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; Read the full text

2025-2026 regular session

What it does

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 5 of Title 39 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to online internet safety, so as to require certain disclosures related to conversational AI services; to require the operators of conversational AI services to take steps to limit certain actions related to minors by such systems; to require operators to provide certain privacy tools to users; to require operators to adopt a protocol for a conversational AI service's response to suici
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Where it is

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Senate Hopper · Feb 19, 2026
Senate Read and Referred · Feb 20, 2026
Senate Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Feb 25, 2026
Senate Read Second Time · Feb 26, 2026
Senate Tabled · Mar 6, 2026
Senate Taken from Table · Mar 6, 2026
Senate Third Read · Mar 6, 2026
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Mar 6, 2026
House First Readers · Mar 9, 2026
House Second Readers · Mar 10, 2026
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute · Mar 25, 2026
House Third Readers · Mar 25, 2026
House Passed/Adopted By Substitute · Mar 25, 2026
Senate Agreed House Amend or Sub · Mar 27, 2026
Senate Sent to Governor · Apr 10, 2026
Senate Date Signed by Governor · May 11, 2026
Act 518 · May 11, 2026
Effective Date · Jul 1, 2027

The numbers

9
sponsors on the bill

Sponsors

Anavitarte, JasonWalker, III, LarryStill, ShawnStrickland, BrianWatson, BenHarbin, MartyDickerson, Jason T.Bearden, TimothyJones, Todd

Recorded votes

AGREE TO HOUSE SUBSTITUTESenate · 2026-03-27 · yea 44, nay 1, notVoting 4, excused 7
PASSAGEHouse · 2026-03-25 · yea 166, nay 0, notVoting 6, excused 8
PASSAGE BY SUBSTITUTESenate · 2026-03-06 · yea 54, nay 0, notVoting 2, excused 0
Roll-call results shown verbatim from the Georgia legislature’s records. A result reflects that roll call’s own motion, not the bill’s overall outcome.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Effective Date (Jul 1, 2027).