{"slug":"us-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety","id":"AIPT-POL-0215","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0215","title":"Connecticut SB 5: An Act Concerning Online Safety (Public Act 26-15)","short_title":"Connecticut online safety and frontier AI law (SB 5)","jurisdiction":"us-connecticut","instrument_type":"act","status":"partially_applicable","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"Connecticut General Assembly","summary_plain":"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.","adopted_on":"2026-05-27","in_force_on":"2026-10-01","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF","last_verified_at":null,"reviewed_by":null,"content_version":1,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"medium","updated_at":"2026-10-15T06:46:25+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety","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.","scope_summary":"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.","who_it_applies_to":"Frontier-model developers, AI companion operators and other businesses named in the act.","key_dates_summary":"Signed 27 May 2026; frontier provisions effective 1 October 2026; internal reporting process by 1 January 2027; quarterly board reports from 1 May 2027.","penalties_summary":null,"what_organizations_must_do":null,"published_on":null,"date_notes":"The civil penalty figure (up to $1,000 per violation) comes from an April 2026 draft analysis and is not recorded here as final.","taxonomy":{"actor":["provider","deployer","gpai_provider"],"ai_system_type":["general_purpose_ai_model","conversational_agent"],"sector":["cross_sector"],"risk_category":["systemic_risk"],"use_case":["generative_ai"]},"sections":[],"obligations":[],"applicability_rules":[],"deadlines":[],"versions":[],"enforcement_events":[],"procurement_rules":[],"sources":[{"title":"Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)","publisher":"Connecticut General Assembly","url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF","document_date":"2026-05-27","document_type":"legislation","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"}],"related_policies":["us-california-sb-53","us-illinois-ai-safety-measures-act"],"related_frameworks":[],"faq":[],"source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF","source_title":"Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)","source_publisher":"Connecticut General Assembly","source_document_date":"2026-05-27","source_reference":null,"source_tier":1,"last_checked_at":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":null,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"medium","content_version":1,"change_summary":"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.","reviewed_by":null},"second_review":null}