Bill dossier · California 2025–26 session · session closed September 30, 2026
Current through · Last editorial review October 1, 2026 · Original snapshot September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PT (archived below)
SB 813: Artificial intelligence: independent safety assessment
Final status · recorded October 1, 2026
SIGNED SEPTEMBER 9, 2026SB 813 was signed on September 9, 2026. Operative: Per text. It is law; the chaptered text is the controlling version. Source: California 2026 Final Legislative Ledger · Current analysis: California’s Health-AI Experiment Is Now Law.
Archived snapshot — originally current through September 18, 2026, 3:00 PM PTPreserved as originally published. Superseded by the final status above; lifecycle language, deadlines and “pending” states in this section describe the record as it stood on that date, not the current state. The dossier body below (what the bill does, legislative history, analysis and “what happens next”) is the September record.
Bill
SB 813 (2025-2026)
Internal identity
CA|2025-2026|SB813
Author
Senate author of record
Lifecycle
SIGNED 9 SEPTEMBER 2026 — CHAPTER NUMBER NOT YET RECORDED
Where it sits
Statute — chaptered text to be read
Last recorded action
August 30, 2026
Recorded vote
—
Enrollment
ENROLLED AND PRESENTED
Governor
Signed 9 September 2026
Urgency
None recorded
Chapter
Not applicable
Verification
VERIFIED
Governor deadline
September 30, 2026
Verified
September 15, 2026
Latest recorded action
August 30, 2026. Senate concurrence 37–0 (30 August) after Assembly passage 53–4.
What the bill does
General AI-governance measure providing for independent safety assessment of AI models. Not healthcare-specific; tracked as comparative background for independent validation and model assurance in clinical AI.
What it does not do
Signed 9 September 2026; operative date not yet read. Imposes no healthcare-specific clinical standard on the record read here.
KPSGILL position
No position taken. Tracked as comparative background for independent validation and model assurance in clinical AI.
What happens next
Governor action deadline: September 30, 2026. That is the session-wide date this desk tracks, not a date computed from this bill’s own presentment: enrolment and presentment for this bill are not established on the record read here, and until they are, no per-bill clock can be stated. Every qualifying measure is tracked on the Governor’s Health Bill Desk; scheduled dates sit on the decision calendar.
Sources
- California 2026 Final Legislative Ledger — final executive action, verified through October 1, 2026
- California Senate — author’s release on SB 813, 30 August 2026
Register: the record store · internal identity CA|2025-2026|SB813 · verification state VERIFIED · tracker: California Legislature 2026.