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Updated August 16, 2026

Alabama: US state profile

A snapshot of AI governance activity in Alabama: tracked legislation, enforcement actions, federal political money, and the labor baseline. Ask AGIS for the cross-referenced detail behind any of it.

Labor baseline

Union membership rate: 6.3% (2025). Covered by a union contract: 7.2%.

2025 annual estimates are 11-month averages excluding October; October 2025 data not collected due to the federal government shutdown. Not strictly comparable with other annual averages. Source.

Legislation

43 AI-related documents tracked.

• AL HB351: Data privacy; processing of data regulated, consumer actions related to data authorized enacted
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• AL SB213: Data privacy; required notifications, registration, and security methods for consumer data brokers provided proposed
  Licensing, registration, and certificationPrivacySales, retail, and customer relationsSecurity
• AL HB283: Data privacy, processing of data regulated, consumer actions related to data authorized proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• AL HB513: Alabama Justice Information Commission; collection, dissemination, and use of biometric identifiers by certain entities provided for; Alabama Background Check Service established, types, uses, and fee proposed
  FinesGovernment study or reportPrivacy
• AL HB295: Consumer protection, privacy rights, regulation of use of biometric identifiers for a commercial purpose, civil fine, authorized proposed
  FinesPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• AL HB470: Consumer protection, protection of personally identifiable information further provided for, civil and criminal liability established proposed
  PrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• AL HB216: Consumer Protection, Alabama Consumer Privacy Act, created, allow consumers to opt in or out to sale of personal information with certain conditions, require business collecting data to make certain d proposed
  FinesInput controls: ConsentPrivacySales, retail, and customer relations
• AL HB54: Privacy, prohibit state agency from selling personal information of Alabama residents proposed
  Government: other applications/unspecifiedPrivacy
• AL HB109: Relating to credentials and the workforce; to create the Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act as a new Division 9, commencing with Section 41-29-350, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code o enacted
  Licensing, registration, and certificationPrivacyTransparency
• AL HB170: Social media content; trust required for certain minors who are performers or featured in social media content, calculation of compensation and designation of trustee for trust provided for, procedure proposed
  Broadcasting and media productionChildren and minorsTransparency
• Rural health care; Alabama Health Command established to designate an AI-assisted health platform in rural communities proposed
  Medicine, life sciences and public health
• AL HB100: Alabama Justice Information Commission; collection, dissemination, and use of biometric identifiers by certain entities provided for; Alabama Background Check Service established, types, uses, and fee proposed
  Criminal liabilityDisclosure: Of AI useFinesGovernment study or reportPrivacy
• AL SB118: Alabama Justice Information Commission; collection, dissemination, and use of biometric identifiers by certain entities provided for; Alabama Background Check Service established, types, uses, and fee enacted
  Criminal liabilityDisclosure: Of AI useFinesGovernment study or reportPrivacy
• Rural health care; Alabama Health Command established to designate an AI-assisted health platform in rural communities proposed
  Medicine, life sciences and public health
• Alabama GenAI Report (2025) enacted
  Evaluation: Impact assessmentGovernance developmentGovernment study or reportGovernment support: AI workforce-relatedPerformance requirements
• Alabama GenAI Task Force EO enacted
  ConveningGovernance developmentGovernment study or reportGovernment support: AI workforce-related
• Alabama GenAI Task Force EO (Ivey) enacted
  ConveningGovernance developmentGovernment study or report
• Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for enacted
  Data centersEnergy and utilitiesGovernment study or report
• AI chatbots; unfair or deceptive trade practice for failing to notify consumer about AI chatbot; private right of action and enforcement provided for proposed
  BiasCivil liabilityDisclosure: In deploymentDisclosure: Of AI useFinancial loss
• AL HB327: Consumer protection; production of digital replicas of voice or visual likenesses, prohibited for commercial use unless licensed, procedures established, private right of action authorized proposed
  Arts, sports, leisure, travel, and lifestyleCivil liabilityConsumer goodsDisclosure: About inputsInput controls: Data useLicensing, registration, and certificationTransparency
• AL HR277: Nerdettes, Huntsville's all-girl FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics Team, commended enacted
  Manufacturing
• AL SB241: Unmanned aircraft systems, requires head of ALEA to create and maintain list of approved drones and prohibits political subdivisions of state from buying unapproved drones proposed
  Government: military and public safety
• AL HR139: Creekside Academy Robotics Team, commended enacted
  Manufacturing
• AL HR306: Robotics team The Super Novas from Peter F. Alba Middle School, commended enacted
  EducationManufacturing
• AL HR112: Ridgecrest Christian School robotics team, commended enacted
  EducationManufacturing
• AL SB56: Facial recognition technology, use of match as the sole basis of probable cause or arrest, prohibited enacted
  Government: judicial and law enforcementInput controls: Use restrictionsViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• AL SB113: Artificial intelligence, limit the use of facial recognition, to ensure artificial intelligence is not the only basis for arrest proposed
  Government: judicial and law enforcementViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• AL SB63: Health care plans; to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in determinations of coverage enacted
  FinanceMedicine, life sciences and public health
• Artificial Intelligence; state agencies required to perform quarterly AI-assisted review of rules proposed
  Government: other applications/unspecified
• Artificial Intelligence; state agencies required to perform quarterly AI-assisted review of rules proposed
  Government: other applications/unspecified
• Artificial intelligence; disclosure of artificial intelligence-generated content required, enforcement provided proposed
  Disclosure: Of AI useTransparency
• Artificial intelligence; age verification systems required for chatbots, safeguard protocols required, therapy chatbot requirements established, private right of action and enforcement provided for proposed
  Children and minorsCivil liabilityPerformance requirementsSafety
• Artificial Intelligence and Children's Internet Safety Study Commission, created enacted
  Children and minorsConveningGovernment study or reportGovernment: other applications/unspecifiedHarm to health/safetyNetworking and telecommunicationsSafety
• AL HB515: Artificial intelligence; regulate use in health coverage decisions proposed
  FinanceMedicine, life sciences and public health
• AL HR301: Fort Payne Robotics Team, commended enacted
  Manufacturing
• AL HB197: Artificial intelligence, limit the use of facial recognition, to ensure artificial intelligence is not the only basis for arrest proposed
  Government: judicial and law enforcementViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• AL HB485: Artificial intelligence, limit the use of facial recognition, to ensure artificial intelligence is not the only basis for arrest proposed
  Government: judicial and law enforcementViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• AL HB465: Artificial intelligence, limit the use of facial recognition, to ensure artificial intelligence is not the only basis for arrest proposed
  Government: judicial and law enforcementViolation of civil or human rights, including privacy
• AL HR231: Mountain Brook Junior High School Robotics Teams, honored enacted
  EducationManufacturing
• Alabama (2019) SB 47 (Autonomous Commercial Vehicles) enacted
• Alabama AI Commission Act enacted
  ConveningDisclosureDisclosure: About evaluationDisclosure: In standard formEducationEvaluationEvaluation: Impact assessmentGovernment study or reportManufacturingMedicine, life sciences and public healthNew institutionTransportation
• Alabama HB 172 (Use of Materially Deceptive Media in Elections) enacted
• Alabama SB 78 ("Council on Advanced Technology") enacted
  ConveningGovernment study or reportNew institution

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Enforcement

No enforcement actions recorded for Alabama. When a state attorney general, a federal agency, or a court takes an action involving an AI system here, it will be listed with the respondent, outcome, and any penalty.

Money

$14,033 in tracked political contributions across 173 records.

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