Florida AI Laws: What's Enacted and What's Next (2027)

As of November 2026, Florida has enacted targeted AI laws. We found no comprehensive AI act in named-bill searches and a keyword scan of the 2026 chapter laws; the 2025 chapter laws were not swept. Florida's main laws are the altered-sexual-depiction statute, Fla. Stat. 836.13 (created in 2022 and amended by HB 757 and Brooke's Law, HB 1161), and the AI political-ad disclaimer, Fla. Stat. 106.145 (HB 919). According to Florida Senate bill records we read on November 4, 2026, the state's proposed AI Bill of Rights passed the Senate twice in 2026 and died in the House both times.

Status as of November 4, 2026: The Florida Senate's 2027 bill list, as we read it that day, showed no AI bill. The Attorney General proposed the Safe Screens Act, which covers AI chatbots, on October 22, 2026, but we did not find it filed as a bill. The Legislature's 2027 regular session opens March 2, 2027. According to the state's motion, the Attorney General sued OpenAI in Highlands County. We did not find a ruling on the state's September 2026 injunction motion in the Attorney General's news releases; we did not read the court's docket.

This page covers Florida state law on artificial intelligence: what has passed, what failed in 2026, and what to watch in 2027. Deepfakes and AI meeting recorders get short summaries here and have their own pages. For other states and the national picture, see our guide to state and federal AI laws.

Florida AI Laws at a Glance: Bill Numbers and Effective Dates

These are the main Florida laws we found that bear on AI, with dates from Florida Senate bill records and the chapter laws. Section 106.145 names generative AI directly. Sections 836.13 and 827.072 reach AI output through their definitions of computer-generated images.

Our search worked from named bills found through web searches, each then opened on the Florida Senate's site. It was not a review of every bill filed in 2025 and 2026, so a provision inside a broader bill could be missing here. For 2026 we also keyword-scanned the chapter laws on the Department of State's site. We did not sweep the 2025 chapter laws.

Florida's AI Bill of Rights: How SB 482 and SB 2-D Died

Governor DeSantis proposed a "Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence" on December 4, 2025. It was a proposal, not an executive order. It called for consent to use a person's name, image or likeness, notice when people deal with a chatbot, parental controls, and a rule that AI cannot be the sole determination in adjusting or denying a claim.

By the Florida Senate's bill records as we read them on November 4, 2026, the Senate passed a bill by that name twice and the House passed neither. The dates and votes below come from the same read.

• CS/SB 482 (Sen. Leek), regular session. Filed December 22, 2025. It passed the Senate 35-2 on March 4, 2026, and died in House Messages on March 13, 2026.
• SB 2-D (Sen. Brodeur), April special session. Filed April 24, 2026. It passed the Senate 37-1 on April 28 and died in the House Information Technology Budget & Policy Subcommittee on April 29, 2026. Its public-records companion died the same day.

The filed text of SB 2-D, as we read it on November 4, 2026, shows what Florida did not adopt:

• Companion chatbot platforms would have needed a parent's or guardian's consent before a minor could hold an account.
• Bot operators would have had to give users periodic notice.
• AI technology companies could not have sold or disclosed users' personal information unless it was deidentified, with an exception for what federal law authorizes.
• Commercial use of a name, image or likeness created through AI would have required consent.
• Government contracts for AI technology and student access to AI instructional tools would have faced new limits.

The bill relied on the Department of Legal Affairs to enforce its chatbot, bot-notice and data provisions under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. None of it took effect.

Other Florida AI Bills That Failed in 2026

These outcomes come from the Florida Senate's bill records as we read them on November 4, 2026.

As we read it on November 4, 2026, the text of HB 527 would have let workers' compensation carriers, insurers and health maintenance organizations use AI to assist with claims. It would have barred a decision to reduce or deny a claim made solely on the basis of an AI system, and a qualified human professional would have had to make that decision.

Deepfake Laws: Fla. Stat. 836.13, Brooke's Law and HB 1159

Section 836.13 makes it a third-degree felony, without the depicted person's consent, to willfully generate an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person, to solicit one, or to willfully and maliciously promote one or possess one with intent to do so. A third-degree felony carries up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. An aggrieved person can sue over the generating and promoting offenses for $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. Under Brooke's Law, covered platforms had to set up a removal process by December 31, 2025, and must act within 48 hours of a valid request.

Since July 1, 2024, Fla. Stat. 827.072 has made it a crime to knowingly possess, intentionally view or intentionally create generated child sexual abuse material. Effective July 1, 2026, HB 1159 raised intentional creation from a third-degree to a second-degree felony and added a second-degree felony for transmitting it. See our Florida deepfake laws page for more.

AI in Political Ads: HB 919 and Fla. Stat. 106.145

The disclaimer duty has three conditions, and all must be met. The ad must contain content created in whole or in part with generative AI, the content must appear to depict a real person performing an action that did not actually occur, and it must have been created with intent to injure a candidate or to deceive regarding a ballot issue.

The ad must then state: "Created in whole or in part with the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI)." The statute sets size and length rules by medium, such as 12-point bold type in print.

The person identified as paying for, sponsoring or approving the ad who leaves the disclaimer out commits a first-degree misdemeanor, which carries up to 1 year in jail and a $1,000 fine. Any person may file a complaint with the Florida Elections Commission.

Florida Digital Bill of Rights (SB 262): The Profiling Opt-Out

This privacy law is not an AI statute, but it reaches automated decisions. Fla. Stat. 501.705 gives consumers the right to opt out of processing for "[p]rofiling in furtherance of a decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect concerning a consumer."

Section 501.702 defines profiling as "any form of solely automated processing performed on personal data to evaluate, analyze, or predict personal aspects related to an identified or identifiable individual's economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements."

The law reaches few companies. Among other requirements, a controller must make more than $1 billion in global gross annual revenue and meet at least one further test: 50 percent or more of revenue from selling online ads, operating a consumer smart speaker and voice command service, or operating an app store with at least 250,000 applications.

Under Section 501.72, a violation is actionable "solely by the Department of Legal Affairs," with civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation. Those penalties may be tripled in listed cases, such as a violation involving a known child. The department may grant a 45-day cure period, except for known-child violations.

What Florida Has Not Enacted

We found no Florida statute setting binding rules on these subjects. This reflects the named-bill search and the 2026 chapter-law keyword scan described above, not a review of every bill filed, and we did not sweep the 2025 chapter laws. The bill outcomes in this list come from Florida Senate records as we read them on November 4, 2026.

• Comprehensive AI act or general automated-decision law: none found. The profiling opt-out above is narrower: it covers solely automated profiling by controllers that meet the SB 262 test. SB 482 and SB 2-D failed.
• Frontier model safety: none found.
• AI in hiring: none found.
• AI in health care or insurance claims: none found. HB 527 and SB 202 failed.
• Companion chatbots and minors: none found. SB 482 and SB 2-D failed.
• Consumer AI disclosure outside elections: none found.
• State agency AI use: no statute found that sets rules for how agencies use AI. Fla. Stat. 282.802 creates an advisory council, the Government Technology Modernization Council, that studies AI and other technology and sends the Governor and legislative leaders recommendations each year. Separately, Fla. Stat. 1002.321 lets school districts receive grant funds for AI learning platforms that meet listed criteria. SB 146 failed.

Florida v. OpenAI: The Attorney General's Consumer-Protection Suit

According to the state's motion, the Attorney General sued on June 1, 2026, in the Tenth Judicial Circuit, Highlands County (Case No. 26000295GCAXMX). The defendants are OpenAI entities and CEO Sam Altman. The state alleges violations of the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, negligence, defective design, failure to warn, fraudulent misrepresentation and public nuisance. None of the claims the motion lists rests on an AI statute. These are allegations, not findings.

The motion says the defendants removed the case to federal court and that a federal judge ruled against federal jurisdiction, returning it to Highlands County. On September 28, 2026, the state filed for a temporary injunction. It asks the court to bar, among other things, offering ChatGPT to minors in Florida and developing AI models without independent third-party guardrails and approval.

As of November 4, 2026, we did not find a ruling on that motion in the Attorney General's news releases. We did not read the court's docket.

On October 28, 2026, the Attorney General announced another civil suit, against Rengstorff Consulting Ltd, operator of the A2E AI platform. According to the release, the complaint alleges that its tools let users generate child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexualized images, and it seeks a permanent injunction and civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. These are also allegations, not findings.

SB 484: Florida's Data Center Law Is Not an AI-Use Rule

SB 484 is a data center law. The enrolled text does not use the words "artificial intelligence." It defines a large load customer as one with an anticipated monthly peak load of 50 megawatts or more.

Public utilities must offer tariffs meant to keep those customers' costs from shifting to other ratepayers, and they had to file a complying tariff by October 1, 2026. The law also confirms local governments' planning authority over large load customers, bars knowingly serving a large load customer that is a foreign entity, and creates a permitting section for large-scale data centers.

AI Meeting Recorders in Florida

Fla. Stat. 934.03 makes intercepting a communication lawful when "all of the parties to the communication have given prior consent," which matters for AI note-takers that record calls. See Florida AI meeting recording laws.

Federal AI Policy and Florida

As of November 4, 2026, in a title scan of the public laws of the 119th Congress, we found no federal statute that sets general rules for private AI systems or generally preempts state AI laws. In December 2025, Executive Order 14365 directed federal agencies to challenge or discourage state AI laws the administration views as conflicting with national policy, and called for a federal framework from Congress. The order itself does not declare any state law invalid. For details, see Trump's AI executive orders and state AI law preemption.

What Changes in Florida AI Law in 2027

As of November 4, 2026, we found no AI law scheduled to take effect in Florida in 2027; we searched Florida Senate bill records for the 2025 and 2026 sessions, working from named bills, and keyword-scanned the 2026 chapter laws. We did not sweep the 2025 chapter laws. These are the dates to watch.

• March 2, 2027: The 2027 regular session convenes, on the date the Florida Constitution sets. The Senate's 2027 calendar, as we read it on November 4, 2026, lists a noon deadline that day for filing bills for introduction. By Senate records we read on November 4, 2026, SB 482, SB 2-D and the other 2026 bills above died, so any new AI bill would need to be filed.
• April 30, 2027: The scheduled 60th and last day of the regular session, unless it is extended.
• Proposal, no bill found: On October 22, 2026, Attorney General James Uthmeier proposed the Safe Screens Act, which would bar AI chatbots from offering minors features that simulate companionship, encourage harm, generate sexual content or claim to be human, with penalties of up to $50,000 per violation. It is a proposal. The Senate's 2027 bill list, as we read it on November 4, 2026, showed no such bill.
• July 1, 2027: The Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability must deliver its independent data center study to the Governor, Senate President and House Speaker under SB 484.
• No date found: A ruling on the temporary injunction motion in the OpenAI case in Highlands County. We checked the Attorney General's news releases, not the court's docket.

When we read the Senate's 2027 bill list on November 4, 2026, it showed 17 bills, all relief claim bills, and none on AI.

More Florida Laws

Explore other Florida law topics on Recording Law:

• Florida Recording Laws
• Florida Data Privacy Laws
• Florida Whistleblower Laws
• Florida Background Check Laws
• Florida Sexting Laws
• Florida Deepfake Laws
• Florida AI Meeting Recording Laws

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Florida have an AI law?

Yes, but only targeted ones. As of November 2026, Florida has laws on altered sexual depictions (Fla. Stat. 836.13), AI political ads (Fla. Stat. 106.145) and generated child sexual abuse material (Fla. Stat. 827.072). We found no comprehensive AI act in named-bill searches and a keyword scan of the 2026 chapter laws; the 2025 chapter laws were not swept.

Did Florida pass the AI Bill of Rights?

No. By Florida Senate bill records we read on November 4, 2026, SB 482 passed the Senate 35-2 and died in House Messages on March 13, 2026, and SB 2-D passed the Senate 37-1 in the April special session and died in a House subcommittee on April 29, 2026.

Is it illegal to make an AI deepfake in Florida?

It depends on the content. Fla. Stat. 836.13 makes it a third-degree felony to willfully generate an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without consent. A third-degree felony carries up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. That section covers sexual depictions, not every deepfake.

Do AI political ads need a disclaimer in Florida?

Some do. Under Fla. Stat. 106.145, the disclaimer applies when generative AI content appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not actually occur and was created with intent to injure a candidate or to deceive regarding a ballot issue. Leaving it out is a first-degree misdemeanor for the person identified as paying for, sponsoring or approving the ad.

Can I opt out of AI profiling in Florida?

Against some companies. Fla. Stat. 501.705 gives consumers a right to opt out of profiling in furtherance of a decision with a legal or similarly significant effect. It applies to controllers with more than $1 billion in global revenue that also meet further tests, and only the Department of Legal Affairs can enforce it.

Does Florida regulate AI in hiring?

We found no Florida statute on AI in hiring. Our search covered named bills and a keyword scan of the 2026 chapter laws, not every bill filed, and we did not sweep the 2025 chapter laws.

Does Florida regulate AI chatbots for minors?

We found no enacted Florida chatbot statute in named-bill searches and a keyword scan of the 2026 chapter laws; the 2025 chapter laws were not swept. As we read the bill text and Senate records on November 4, 2026, SB 2-D would have required parental consent for minors on companion chatbot platforms, and it died in the House in 2026, as did SB 482. On October 22, 2026, the Attorney General proposed the Safe Screens Act, which would bar AI chatbots from offering minors features that simulate companionship, encourage harm, generate sexual content or claim to be human. It is a proposal, and the Senate's 2027 bill list showed no such bill on November 4, 2026.

Can Florida insurers deny claims using AI?

We found no enacted Florida statute on this in named-bill searches and a keyword scan of the 2026 chapter laws; the 2025 chapter laws were not swept. As we read the bill text and Senate record on November 4, 2026, HB 527 would have barred reducing or denying a claim solely on the basis of an AI system, and it passed the House 108-0 and died in Senate Rules on March 13, 2026.

Did Florida sue OpenAI?

Yes. The state's motion says the Attorney General sued on June 1, 2026, in Highlands County, naming OpenAI entities and CEO Sam Altman, under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and other claims. The state filed for a temporary injunction on September 28, 2026. As of November 4, 2026, we did not find a ruling on that motion in the Attorney General's news releases. We did not read the court's docket.

Does the federal AI executive order cancel Florida's AI laws?

Executive Order 14365 does not itself declare any state law invalid. It directed federal agencies to challenge or discourage state AI laws the administration views as conflicting with national policy.

Will Florida pass an AI law in 2027?

That is unknown. The regular session is scheduled to run from March 2 to April 30, 2027. As of November 4, 2026, the Senate's 2027 bill list showed no AI bill. The Attorney General's Safe Screens Act, which covers AI chatbots, is a proposal, and we did not find it filed as a bill.