# Connecticut SB 5: An Act Concerning Online Safety (Public Act 26-15)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: Connecticut (United States)
- **Instrument type**: Act / statute
- **Status**: Partially applicable
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: Connecticut General Assembly
- **Adopted**: 2026-05-27
- **In force**: 2026-10-01

## 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.

## Summary

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.

## Scope

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

Signed 27 May 2026; frontier provisions effective 1 October 2026; internal reporting process by 1 January 2027; quarterly board reports from 1 May 2027.

## Notes on dates

The civil penalty figure (up to $1,000 per violation) comes from an April 2026 draft analysis and is not recorded here as final.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0215 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0215; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-connecticut-sb-5-online-safety
- **Official source**: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/act/Pa/pdf/2026PA-00015-R00SB-00005-PA.PDF
- **Source document**: Public Act 26-15 (SB 5)
- **Published by**: Connecticut 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). "Connecticut SB 5: An Act Concerning Online Safety (Public Act 26-15)" [AIPT-POL-0215, record version 1, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0215 (accessed 21 October 2026).

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