FloridaAI regulation

Regulation Status

• Florida regulates AI through discrete statutes on elections, data privacy, and child safety rather than a single comprehensive law. Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 919, effective 1 July 2024, requiring political advertisements and electioneering communications that contain AI-generated deepfakes intended to influence an election to carry a disclaimer that the content was created in whole or in part with generative AI, with violations a first-degree misdemeanor.
• On automated decision-making, the Florida Digital Bill of Rights (SB 262), signed 6 June 2023 with its main provisions effective 1 July 2024, gives consumers a right to opt out of solely automated profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects, including decisions involving financial or lending services, housing, insurance, health care, education, criminal justice, or access to basic necessities, and requires data-protection assessments; it applies only to a narrow set of very large firms and is enforced by the Department of Legal Affairs with civil penalties up to $50,000 per violation.
• Florida has also acted on synthetic child sexual abuse material: SB 1680, effective 1 January 2025, expands existing child-pornography statutes to reach images created, altered, adapted, or modified by electronic, mechanical, or computer-generated means to portray a fictitious person a reasonable person would regard as a real minor engaged in sexual conduct, with existing criminal penalties applying. The state has not enacted a broad, risk-based AI framework governing high-risk systems generally.