{"slug":"us-illinois-ai-safety-measures-act","id":"AIPT-POL-0216","permanent_url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0216","title":"Illinois Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315, Public Act 104-0538)","short_title":"Illinois AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315)","jurisdiction":"us-illinois","instrument_type":"act","status":"adopted","is_binding":true,"ai_specific":true,"issuing_body":"Illinois General Assembly","summary_plain":"Illinois's frontier-AI safety and transparency law, built on the model of California SB 53: large frontier developers must publish a frontier AI framework and update it every year, publish a transparency report when they deploy a new or substantially modified frontier model, report critical safety incidents to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, and protect whistleblowing employees. Unlike the California and New York laws, it also requires annual independent third-party audits, with a published summary.","adopted_on":"2026-07-06","in_force_on":null,"applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=315&DocTypeID=SB&GA=104&GAID=18&SessionID=114","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-illinois-ai-safety-measures-act","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":"A \"frontier model\" is a foundation model trained with more than 10^26 operations, counting fine-tuning and other material modifications; a \"large frontier developer\" also had more than $500 million in annual gross revenue in the prior year, with affiliates. Ordinary deployers of AI systems are not covered.","who_it_applies_to":"Large frontier-model developers whose models are made available in Illinois.","key_dates_summary":"Became Public Act 104-0538 on 6 July 2026 (bill status page); reported effective 1 January 2027; third-party audits from 1 January 2028, or 90 days after a developer first qualifies, whichever is later.","penalties_summary":"Civil penalties of up to $1,000,000 for a first violation, per extracts of the enacted text; a higher cap for later violations appears only in secondary reporting.","what_organizations_must_do":null,"published_on":null,"date_notes":"The 6 July 2026 Public Act date is from the ILGA bill status page. The 1 January 2027 effective date appears in the amendment synopsis but was not confirmed in the enrolled Act; secondary sources disagree between 2027 and 2028. Passage dates and votes come from secondary reporting only.","taxonomy":{"actor":["provider","gpai_provider"],"ai_system_type":["general_purpose_ai_model"],"sector":["cross_sector"],"risk_category":["systemic_risk"],"use_case":["generative_ai"]},"sections":[],"obligations":[],"applicability_rules":[],"deadlines":[],"versions":[],"enforcement_events":[],"procurement_rules":[],"sources":[{"title":"Illinois General Assembly: bill status of SB 315 (104th General Assembly)","publisher":"Illinois General Assembly","url":"https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=315&DocTypeID=SB&GA=104&GAID=18&SessionID=114","document_date":"2026-07-06","document_type":"legislation","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"},{"title":"Public Act 104-0538","publisher":"Illinois General Assembly","url":"https://www.ilga.gov/documents/legislation/PublicActs/104/104-0538.htm","document_date":"2026-07-06","document_type":"legislation","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"}],"related_policies":["us-california-sb-53","us-new-york-raise-act"],"related_frameworks":[],"faq":[{"question":"Which US states have frontier AI safety and transparency laws?","answer":"Three states have enacted laws requiring large frontier-model developers to publish safety frameworks and report critical incidents: California (SB 53, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act), New York (the RAISE Act) and Illinois (SB 315, the AI Safety Measures Act), which also requires annual third-party audits. Connecticut's SB 5 covers large frontier developers through whistleblower and internal-reporting duties rather than published frameworks."},{"question":"How does the Illinois AI Safety Measures Act differ from California SB 53?","answer":"Both apply to large frontier developers above the same compute and revenue thresholds and require a published frontier AI framework, transparency reports, incident reporting and whistleblower protection. Illinois adds annual independent third-party audits from 2028, with a published summary sent to the state; California's law has no audit requirement."}],"source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=315&DocTypeID=SB&GA=104&GAID=18&SessionID=114","source_title":"Illinois General Assembly: bill status of SB 315 (104th General Assembly)","source_publisher":"Illinois General Assembly","source_document_date":"2026-07-06","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}