Senate Bill 4 (2025): artificial intelligence governance for state government and synthetic media in electioneering (2025 Ky. Acts ch. 66)

Summary

Amends KRS 42.722 and 42.726 to define AI, generative AI and high-risk AI systems and consequential decisions, and makes the Commonwealth Office of Technology set standards for the responsible, ethical and transparent use of generative and high-risk AI by state bodies. Its AI Governance Committee develops standards adhering to ISO/IEC 42001, keeps a registry of such systems and runs an approval process. Agencies must disclose AI use to the public, explain AI decisions about citizens and offer appeals, and may use high-risk AI for consequential decisions only under a risk management policy. Candidates may also sue to require disclosures on synthetic media in electioneering communications.

Safety topics

Status notes

Its official title is 'AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.' Passed the Senate 30-3 (28 Feb 2025) and, with House Committee Substitute 1, the House 86-10 (13 Mar 2025); the Senate concurred 33-4, and the Governor signed the Act on 24 Mar 2025. An emergency clause made it effective on approval. The Commonwealth Office of Technology was to promulgate administrative regulations by 1 Dec 2025 and must report each year from 1 Dec 2025 to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on State Government on the AI registry, applications for AI use and third-party AI providers. In synthetic-media actions the sponsor of the communication is liable; the disseminating medium is not, unless it removes a disclosure or alters content into synthetic media.

Sources

Open the official source https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25rs/sb4.html

Secondary source: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0066.pdf

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Verification

History

1. 2026-10-18notes: Declared an emergency measure and therefore effective on signature (24 Mar 2025) → Its official title is 'AN ACT relating to protection of information and declarin — rewritten: official title, votes, the regulation and reporting deadlines and the media-liability rule added from the stored files; the hedged sentence ('summaries describe ...') removed2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-18summary: Amends KRS 42.722 and 42.726 to define 'artificial intelligence' and 'artificial → Amends KRS 42.722 and 42.726 to define AI, generative AI and high-risk AI system — rewritten from the Act to include its risk-governance core, which the old summary left out: high-risk AI systems and consequential decisions, ISO/IEC 42001, the registry and approval process, disclosure and appeal for AI decisions about citizens, and the risk management policy required before high-risk AI makes consequential decisions2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-18issuing_body: Kentucky General Assembly (2025 Regular Session; sponsors Sen. Amanda Mays Bleds → Kentucky General Assembly (2025 Regular Session; sponsors A. Mays Bledsoe and B. — the stored files give the sponsors as 'A. Mays Bledsoe, B. Storm' and do not name the Governor; full first names and the Governor's name removed2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-14related: [{"id": "US-TX-01", "slug": "tx-traiga"}, {"id": "US-AR-01", "slug": "ar-act-848 → [{"id": "US-TX-01", "slug": "tx-traiga"}, {"id": "US-AR-01", "slug": "ar-act-848 — two-way link to US-FL-02 added in run 2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl2026-10-14-discover-codes-us-fl · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Kentucky General Assembly (2025 Regular Session; sponsors A. Mays Bledsoe and B. Storm); signed by the Governor. Senate Bill 4 (2025): artificial intelligence governance for state government and synthetic media in electioneering (2025 Ky. Acts ch. 66) [SB 4 (2025 RS); 2025 Kentucky Acts, Chapter 66]. 2025-03-24. https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25rs/sb4.html. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/US-KY-01/2026-10-12/official.html retrieved 2026-10-12 04:49:10 UTC, SHA-256 0426429810a4768e03c6c224aa9fa7005600e298e4de068380e858ac3063f05a. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-KY-01.

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