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AI law in Illinois
21 binding provisions TwinEthos encodes that reach Illinois (US-IL): 13 in force, 8 enacted but not yet applying. Start from the guards to add.
Informational data, not legal advice. Summaries and rules have not been reviewed by a lawyer: always verify official law text for decisions. A suggested guard is intended to address each rule; adding it is not a statement of compliance to that law.
Includes US federal law, which applies in every state. See also United States (federal).
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The guards that cover the most here
62 guards address 79 items across 2 jurisdictions with binding law: 13 binding law in force, 8 enacted but not yet applying, 34 standards and frameworks, 24 TwinEthos recommended guardrails.
Health AI without clinician oversight/accountability + redress
Hold AI-generated clinical output as a draft until an accountable clinician reviews and signs it, and record who approved it before it reaches the chart or the patient.
Addresses 2 items: 1 binding law in force · 1 standard
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
AI agent configured to pose as, or claim affiliation with, a government body or a business it does not represent
Make the agent's persona, greeting, and scripts name only the operating organization, and never instruct it to claim a government or third-party business identity or endorsement.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in United States (federal) (US).
AI detects a client's emotions or mental state in a therapy practice
Remove emotion, affect, and mental-state inference (libraries, model ids, APIs, prompts) from every path that processes client session data in therapy software.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
AI used on recorded or transcribed therapy sessions without written notice and consent
Check a signed, unrevoked, purpose-specific AI-use consent for the client before any session audio or transcript is sent to an AI transcription, note, or summary model.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
AI delivers or is offered as therapy to the public without a licensed professional conducting it
Have a licensed clinician conduct every therapy engagement with AI output only as a reviewed draft, or scope the product to self-help with no therapy claims.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
AI analysis of a video interview without notice, explanation, and consent
Record the applicant's notice, explanation, and consent (or signed waiver) before any AI or facial analysis runs on an interview video, and skip analysis for non-consenting applicants.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
Biometric data disclosed to another party without consent
Check a recorded consent naming the recipient (or a documented exception) before any face or voice template, or identifying image or sample, is sent to a vendor or partner.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
Biometric templates stored with no retention limit or destruction path
Store each face or voice template with its purpose and an expiry, and run a scheduled job that deletes it from every store when the purpose ends or retention lapses.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
Face or voice biometric template computed without prior notice and consent
Check a recorded, purpose-specific biometric notice and consent before any code computes, enrolls, or matches a face or voice template.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in Illinois (US-IL).
Health information sent to an external AI vendor without the contractual or legal basis the law requires
Send identifiable health data only to AI endpoints registered with a signed BAA or processing agreement and retention and training off; otherwise de-identify first.
Addresses 1 item: 1 binding law in force
Law in force in United States (federal) (US).
The top 10 of 62; the build plan ranks all of them and lets you narrow by AI feature.
By AI feature
Plans for one feature in Illinois:
- Chat or assistant
- Answers from your documents (RAG)
- Agents that use tools or take actions
- Decisions about people (hiring, credit, insurance, health)
- Generated text, images, audio or video
- Classification, scoring or biometrics
- Embeddings and vector search
Laws
- FTC Impersonation Rule (16 CFR Part 461) United States (federal) (US)
- HIPAA Privacy Rule (45 CFR 160, 164 Subpart E) United States (federal) (US)
- Illinois AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315) Illinois (US-IL)
- Illinois AI Video Interview Act Illinois (US-IL)
- Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (740 ILCS 14) Illinois (US-IL)
- Illinois HB 3773 (IHRA AI amendment) Illinois (US-IL)
- Illinois WOPR Act (HB 1806, AI in therapy) Illinois (US-IL)
Coming into force
- : Frontier developers must report critical safety incidents to Illinois within 72 hours, or 24 hours if lives are at imminent risk (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
- : Large frontier developers must publish and follow a frontier AI framework from 2028 (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
- : Frontier developers must publish a transparency report at deployment, with machine-readable risk summaries (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
- : Frontier developers must not gag or retaliate against AI safety whistleblowers (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
- : Large frontier developers must publish and follow a frontier AI framework from 2028 (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
- : Large frontier developers must obtain and publish an annual independent compliance audit from 2028 (Illinois SB 315) (Illinois (US-IL))
Informational data, not legal advice. Summaries are TwinEthos's own words and rules have not been reviewed by a lawyer: check the official text before relying on any of it. A guard addresses an item; adding it is not a statement that your code meets any law.