# Illinois enacts the AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on frontier-model safety and transparency

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-07-06
- **Jurisdiction**: Illinois (United States)
- **Instrument**: Illinois Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315, Public Act 104-0538)
- **Impact level**: High
- **Status after the change**: Adopted

## What changed

SB 315 became Public Act 104-0538. Large frontier developers must publish a frontier AI framework and transparency reports, report critical safety incidents to the state, protect whistleblowers and, from 2028, commission annual independent third-party audits. Recorded from search extracts of the ILGA bill status page.

## What it means in practice

Large frontier developers should map their California SB 53 framework to Illinois's audit requirement.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-CHG-0151 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0151; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-07-06-illinois-ai-safety-measures-act-enacted
- **Official source**: https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=315&DocTypeID=SB&GA=104&GAID=18&SessionID=114
- **Source document**: Illinois General Assembly: bill status of SB 315 (104th General Assembly)
- **Published by**: Illinois General Assembly
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-21
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Illinois enacts the AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on frontier-model safety and transparency" [AIPT-CHG-0151, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0151 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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