VirginiaVirginia11 on file · 9 became law · 0 still moving · 0 moved in 30 days
Bans nondisclosure agreements for data center projects across executive agencies, speeds data center noise rules and backup generator review, and creates an Artificial Intelligence Task Force.
Amends the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act to bar controllers from selling consumers' precise geolocation data to third parties.
Requires the Department of Education to survey AI use in public school instruction, publish AI safety guidance and run an AI innovation in education pilot program.
Directs the Joint Commission on Technology and Science to evaluate a framework for licensing independent verification organizations that assess AI models against safety best practices.
Expands the Division of Consumer Counsel's duties to receive and investigate consumer complaints involving emerging technologies, including AI fraud and abuse.
Requires social media platforms to use commercially reasonable age screening and limit users under 16 to one hour per day per platform unless a parent consents to more.
Would have required developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems to protect consumers from algorithmic discrimination, with civil penalties enforced by the Attorney General.
Directs the Virginia Information Technologies Agency to set AI policy standards and an approval process for state agency AI use, creates an AI task force and sets guidelines for AI in education and law enforcement.
Creates a comprehensive consumer data privacy framework giving Virginia residents rights to access, correct, delete and opt out of the sale, targeted advertising and profiling use of their personal data.
Launches a pilot using agentic AI to review state regulations and guidance for redundancies and conflicts with statute, and directs agencies to use AI in future periodic regulatory reviews.
Would have barred operators from offering companion chatbots in Virginia unless the chatbots were incapable of specified harmful behaviors.
Legislationsby Glyph