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- Relevant jurisdictions and primary materials
CURRENT COVERAGE
7 records · 4 articles
Relevant jurisdictions: Colorado, New York, Maryland, Vermont.
REGULATORY RECORDS
Colorado Automated Decision-Making Technology Act
Colorado repealed and reenacted its automated-decision framework. Beginning January 1, 2027, the law governs covered automated decision-making technology used to materially influence consequential decisions, including employment decisions.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Illinois Human Rights Act — Use of Artificial Intelligence in Employment
Illinois amended its Human Rights Act to address employer use of artificial intelligence across recruitment, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and other employment terms.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →New York City Local Law 144 — Automated Employment Decision Tools
New York City regulates employer and employment-agency use of certain automated employment decision tools used to screen candidates for employment or employees for promotion in the city.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →New York City Automated Employment Decision Tools Implementing Rule
NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection rules implement Local Law 144 and define operational details for bias audits, public summaries, and notices involving covered automated employment decision tools.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →New York Public-Sector Automated Employment Decision-Making Framework
New York requires state agencies using covered automated employment decision-making tools to publish specified information. A 2026 chapter amendment added a disclosure provision for defined local public entities and extended related protections for public employees.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Maryland Facial Recognition in Job Interviews — Applicant Consent
Maryland prohibits an employer from using a facial-recognition service to create a facial template during an applicant's job interview unless the applicant signs a specified consent waiver.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →Vermont H.340 — Automated Decision Systems
H.340 proposes a broad framework for developers and deployers of automated decision systems used for consequential decisions, including employment decisions. The official status page lists the bill in the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development and shows no enacted act.
Related coverage: State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance →LATEST COVERAGE
CA · CO · IL · MD · MA · NJ · NY · VT · WA
State AI Employment Laws: What’s Law, What’s Pending, and What’s Guidance
The workplace-AI rulebook is not one category of law. It is a mix of operative statutes and regulations, a future-effective Colorado framework, city-level requirements, pending bills, and agency interpretations of existing law.
NY · new-york-city
New York City Local Law 144: the dates, tools, and duties that matter
The ordinance, implementing rules, and enforcement launch have different dates. A reliable compliance summary keeps them separate.
IL
Illinois AI employment amendments are now effective
The Human Rights Act now expressly addresses AI used in recruitment, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and other employment activity.
CO
Colorado resets its automated-decision framework for 2027
SB 26-189 creates documentation, notice, data-access, correction, and human-review duties for covered consequential decisions, including employment decisions.