Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5): requirements, deadlines and compliance actions
Connecticut SB 5: An Act Concerning Online Safety (Public Act 26-15)
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In brief
The Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) is a binding act of Connecticut (United States), issued by Connecticut General Assembly. It has been in force since 1 October 2026. A broad online-safety act that covers frontier developers, AI companions, AI in employment and synthetic content.
- Jurisdiction
- Connecticut (United States)
- Instrument type
- Act / statute
- Status
- Partially applicable
- Legal force
- Binding
- Issuing body
- Connecticut General Assembly
- Adopted
- 27 May 2026
- In force
- 1 October 2026
- Official source
- Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)
- Verification
- Pending review · source-linked, checked 15 Oct 2026
What is the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5)?
A broad online-safety act that covers frontier developers, AI companions, AI in employment and synthetic content. Its frontier provisions bar retaliation against whistleblowers and require large frontier developers to set up an anonymous internal reporting process and report to their boards quarterly; no duty to publish a safety framework or transparency report was found.
Status note: Recorded on 15 October 2026 from search-engine extracts of the official pages listed; the official text could not be opened from the research environment, so every date and duty here is pending review against it.
Who does it apply to?
Frontier developers (models trained with more than 10^26 operations; "large" developers with more than $500 million in revenue), AI companion operators, employers using AI and creators of synthetic content, as the act sets out.
Frontier-model developers, AI companion operators and other businesses named in the act.
- Sectors
- Cross-sector / all sectors
- AI use cases
- Generative AI and foundation models
- Risk categories
- Systemic-risk general-purpose model
- AI system types
- General-purpose AI modelChatbot / conversational agent
When do the requirements apply?
Signed 27 May 2026; frontier provisions effective 1 October 2026; internal reporting process by 1 January 2027; quarterly board reports from 1 May 2027.
The civil penalty figure (up to $1,000 per violation) comes from an April 2026 draft analysis and is not recorded here as final.
Official sources
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Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)
Connecticut General Assembly · 27 May 2026 · Tier 1 source
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5)” [AIPT-POL-0215, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0215 (accessed 21 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Cite the official text alongside it: Public Act 26-15 (SB 5), Connecticut General Assembly, https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF.
BibTeX
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title = {{Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5)}},
year = {2026},
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url = {https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety},
urldate = {2026-10-21},
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Record history
No change to this record's tracked fields has been recorded since 15 October 2026, when field-level history began.
Record version 1: Added in the October 2026 sub-national research round. Recorded on 15 October 2026 from search-engine extracts of the official pages listed; the official text could not be opened from the research environment, so every date and duty here is pending review against it. Every earlier wording is in the GitHub repository.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) in force?
In part. The Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) applies in stages; see the dates on this page for which provisions apply now.
Is the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) legally binding?
Yes. The Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) is a binding act / statute; the obligations it creates are legal requirements for the actors it covers.
Who does the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) apply to?
Frontier developers (models trained with more than 10^26 operations; "large" developers with more than $500 million in revenue), AI companion operators, employers using AI and creators of synthetic content, as the act sets out.
When does the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5) apply?
Signed 27 May 2026; frontier provisions effective 1 October 2026; internal reporting process by 1 January 2027; quarterly board reports from 1 May 2027.
Where is the official text of the Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5)?
The official text is published by Connecticut General Assembly at https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF (Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)). This record links to it and is checked against it.
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