Legislative proposal on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (Senate L140/2025, Chamber of Deputies Pl-x 184/2025)

Summary

Private members' bill by SOS România senators and deputies that would regulate AI use in Romania. AI in public administration would have to be transparent and periodically audited, with no administrative decisions taken without human intervention; AI could not pronounce court judgments, law-enforcement AI would need certification and AI-based medical decisions validation by a specialist. People would gain rights to an explanation and to human interaction. It bans harmful deepfakes and political profiling without consent, makes platforms label AI content and sets prison terms of two to five years and fines of up to RON 100 million. The Senate rejected it in June 2025.

Language

No English version of this instrument was found. The English title and the summary are the register's own, written from the sources below; for the exact wording use the Romanian text.

Safety topics

Scope

Borderline scope Private members' bill rejected by the Senate and by the Chamber's committees, with little chance of passing; included because it is the only AI-specific bill before the Romanian Parliament.

Status notes

Registered at the Senate on 31 March 2025 (B114) and presented to its Standing Bureau as L140/2025 on 14 May 2025, with the Senate as first chamber. The Senate rejected it on 2 June 2025 (84 for, 40 against, 2 abstentions) after negative opinions from the Legislative Council, the Economic and Social Council, the National Audiovisual Council, ANCOM and every consulted committee, and sent it to the Chamber of Deputies, the decisional chamber, where it was registered as PL-x 184/2025 on 4 June 2025 and sent for report to the Legal Committee and the Committee for Information Technology and Communications. The latter voted by majority to reject it on 16 September 2025, its chairman pointing to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and to the National AI Strategy 2024-2027 approved by Government Decision 832/2024; the Chamber received the two committees' rejection report on 26 November 2025, and on 17 October 2026 the bill was waiting to be put on the plenary agenda. It would be an organic law and enter into force 90 days after publication in the Monitorul Oficial. It defines AI as any computer system able to perform cognitive functions such as learning, reasoning and decision-making, and makes AI developers responsible for the impact of their algorithms, with annual independent audits of AI used in decision-making.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.senat.ro/legis/lista.aspx?nr_cls=L140&an_cls=2025

Secondary source: https://www.cdep.ro/comisii/tehnologia_informatiei/pdf/2025/pv0916.pdf

Local copy

Verification

History

1. 2026-10-17english_version: – → {"kind": "none found"} — not recorded in version 1; no English version of the bill was found2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2. 2026-10-17scope_note: – → Private members' bill rejected by the Senate and by the Chamber's committees, wi — pipeline run 2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 (recheck), candidate RO-012026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
3. 2026-10-17notes: It is the only AI-specific bill before the Romanian Parliament, and it is not an → Registered at the Senate on 31 March 2025 (B114) and presented to its Standing B — rewritten from the Senate and Chamber files, the committee minute and the bill (procedure, vote, committee rejection, current stage, entry into force, definition, developer duties); version 1's statements on Romania's AI Act implementation and the 'only AI-specific bill' claim removed (no stored file; listed as leads)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
4. 2026-10-17safety_topics: ["accountability & liability", "transparency & labelling", "critical infrastruct → ["accountability & liability", "transparency & labelling", "human oversight", "d — 'critical infrastructure' replaced: the bill's 'sectoare critice' are public administration, justice and law enforcement, and medicine, not critical infrastructure; 'human oversight' (no administrative decisions without human intervention, human interaction on request), 'deepfakes & synthetic media' (Art. 9) and 'public-sector use' (Art. 3-4) added from the bill2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
5. 2026-10-17summary: Private members' bill by SOS România senators and deputies that would create a n → Private members' bill by SOS România senators and deputies that would regulate A — rewritten from the bill text (initiators' version, stored in this run) instead of the committee's one-line description; the status sentence corrected: the Chamber's lead committees reported for rejection (IT committee vote of 16 September 2025, joint report received 26 November 2025), now in the notes; the claim that no decision was recorded by October 2026 removed2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
6. 2026-10-17date_last_updated: 2025-09-16 → 2025-11-26 — latest legislative step in the Senate and Chamber files: the Chamber received the committees' rejection report on 26 November 2025 (version 1 had the committee sitting of 16 September 2025)2026-10-17-recheck-europe-3 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Parliament of Romania (private members' bill by SOS România senators and deputies; Senate file L140/2025, Chamber of Deputies file Pl-x 184/2025). Legislative proposal on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (Senate L140/2025, Chamber of Deputies Pl-x 184/2025) [L140/2025 (Senate, registered as B114); Pl-x 184/2025 (Chamber of Deputies)]. 2025-03-31. https://www.senat.ro/legis/lista.aspx?nr_cls=L140&an_cls=2025. Status: Draft / proposed; verified 2026-10-17 (level A). Local copy archive/RO-01/2026-10-17/official.html retrieved 2026-10-17 20:47:35 UTC, SHA-256 1c120c49707643caaaaa16ebf74a2dd4f56642a7f962ecdf63cd05d2d21f2a81. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record RO-01.

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