California suspense file: AB 412 copyright bill dies, SB 813 AI safety body advances
Sacramento's two appropriations committees ran their once-a-year 'suspense file' hearing on 13 August, deciding in under an hour which of roughly 30 pending AI bills live or die before the 31 August session close. AB 412, the AI Copyright Transparency Act (would have required generative-AI developers to document and disclose registered copyrighted training works to rightsholders on request, backed by SAG-AFTRA), was held in committee — dead for 2026 after industry argued full training-set disclosure was technically infeasible. SB 813, creating a California AI Standards and Safety Commission to recognise voluntary safety-certification bodies, passed 11-3 and moves to the Rules Committee, alongside its companion auditor-registry bill AB 1405; several child-safety chatbot bills (AB 2023/SB 1119, SB 867, SB 300) and deepfake/digital-replica bills (SB 1111, SB 1015) also advanced. Practical read: California's pattern of signing transparency/disclosure bills while killing ones that create hard liability (the same split seen with SB 53 and the vetoed SB 7/SB 1047) is repeating — useful US comparator when a client asks whether Article 50-style marking duties are becoming a global norm faster than EU-style training-data transparency obligations are.
Source: Tech Times / California Senate & Assembly Appropriations Committees
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