Hawaii SB 3001 (Artificial Intelligence Disclosure and Safety Act) 2026

• Authority: Hawaii
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2026-07-14

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• Exposure to toxic content
• False or misleading information
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Overreliance and unsafe use
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Compromise of privacy
• Loss of human agency and autonomy

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 7 subdomains, with strong focus on exposure to toxic content (1.2), false or misleading information (3.1), fraud and manipulation (4.3), overreliance and unsafe use (5.1), lack of robustness (7.3), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in human-computer interaction, manipulation prevention, and safety for minors.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Health Care & Social Assistance

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector, specifically companies that develop and operate conversational AI services accessible to the general public. The regulation is technology-sector focused and applies to AI service providers regardless of their end-use application sector.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is binding state legislation from the Hawaii Legislature with mandatory obligations, explicit enforcement mechanisms, civil penalties up to $1,000,000, and designated enforcement authorities (attorney general and director of consumer protection).

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The bill is proposed and enacted by Hawaii's state legislature as indicated in the opening legislative language.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
• Summary: The Act applies to 'operators' defined as persons who develop or make available conversational AI services to the public, which encompasses both developers and deployers of such systems.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Act explicitly designates the attorney general and director of consumer protection as the enforcement authorities with power to bring actions for violations.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Act requires operators to submit annual reports to the department of commerce and consumer affairs, establishing it as the monitoring authority for compliance reporting.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor lifecycle stages, with comprehensive requirements for how conversational AI services must be made available to the public and how they must be monitored during operation. It does not substantially address earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model building.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Models
• AI Systems

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers AI systems (specifically conversational artificial intelligence services) and mentions AI models in the context of developer liability. It does not address frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, compute thresholds, or other specialized AI categories.