US State and Local Employment AI Laws
Statute
United States (state and municipal)
· 2021
Employment is where US AI regulation actually bit first. Illinois HB 3773 amends the Human Rights Act to reach AI in employment decisions; New York City Local Law 144 requires an independent annual bias audit of automated employment decision tools with the results published; Maryland and Illinois regulate facial analysis in interviews; Utah requires disclosure of generative AI in regulated occupations. Local Law 144 is the only US regime that requires a published, structured, third-party-verified statistic about a model's behaviour.
Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them
generally fall outside it.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.