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Senate Bill No. 896

Generative AI Accountability ActRegulatory/legaldocument

Assessment outcome

total 4/4 (actionability 2 + authority 2); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 6.0/6

Total4/6
Actionability2/2
Authority2/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

Issued by the California Legislature.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Anchor 2: Binding state law enacted by the California Legislature.

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 1676 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The source is entirely about generative artificial intelligence legislation.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

The text establishes rules, risk analysis, and governance principles for AI use.

G4 · Attributablepass

Issued by the California Legislature.

G5 · In forcepass

Passed by the legislature and approved by the Governor with no text indicating it is superseded.

Scored criteria

Actionability

2/2

Anchor 2: Names a specific binding obligation that state agencies must follow regarding GenAI communications.

A state agency or department that utilizes GenAI to directly communicate with a person regarding government services and benefits shall ensure that those communications include both of the following:

Authority

2/2

Anchor 2: Binding state law enacted by the California Legislature.

Senate Bill No. 896 CHAPTER 928 An act to add Chapter 5.9 (commencing with Section 11549.63) to Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicGenerative AI Accountability Act
PerspectiveRegulatory/legal
Lifecycle stageN/A cross-cutting
Layerboth
Granularitydocument