Katie Fry Hester

Role in AI policy

Maryland state senator for District 9 (Howard and Montgomery counties). She was primary sponsor of SB 818, the Artificial Intelligence Governance Act of 2024 (Chapter 496, effective 1 July 2024), which put the Governor's AI Subcabinet into law and requires impact assessments of high-risk AI before state agencies buy or build it. In the 2026 session she sponsored further AI bills, including on AI deepfakes and identity fraud, a Maryland AI Partnership in the University System and AI guidance for schools, which the General Assembly records as approved by the Governor.

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