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How Regulon.AI Works
Regulon.AI tracks AI-related legislation and maps each provision to a structured taxonomy of compliance obligations. This page explains how bills are discovered and selected, how provisions are mapped to the requirement taxonomy, and how the passage likelihood indicator is calculated.
Purpose & Audience
What Regulon.AI Is

Regulon.AI is an AI compliance intelligence platform built for product counsel and compliance professionals at companies that develop or deploy AI systems. It tracks state and federal legislation that imposes obligations on those companies — and maps each provision to a structured taxonomy of compliance requirements.

Most legislative trackers organize by bill. Regulon.AI's primary organizing unit is the compliance requirement — a discrete, actionable obligation type that recurs across multiple bills and jurisdictions. Each bill is broken down into one or more mappings: individual provisions extracted from the statutory text and assigned to a requirement in the taxonomy. Every mapping includes the verbatim statutory text, a plain-language explanation written for a legal professional audience, and the taxonomy ID linking it to every other bill that imposes the same type of obligation.

The result: a product counsel working on a disclosure audit can go to a single requirement page and see every bill in the corpus that imposes disclosure obligations — with verbatim statutory text from each jurisdiction, side by side. Regulon.AI is not a news digest, a policy scorecard, or a legal opinion service. It surfaces what the law actually requires, organized by obligation type.

Not Legal Advice Regulon.AI provides informational content to help compliance and legal teams identify and organize applicable obligations. Nothing on this platform constitutes legal advice. Consult qualified counsel before making compliance decisions.
Currency Notice Legislative text and status are refreshed via LegiScan as bills are amended or change status. There may be a lag between a real-world change and its appearance in Regulon.AI. Always verify against the official state legislative source before making time-sensitive compliance decisions.
Corpus & Data Sources
Data Sources

Regulon.AI's primary legislative data source is LegiScan, a legislative tracking service that aggregates bill text, status, sponsor, and amendment data for all 50 U.S. states and Congress. LegiScan data is retrieved via API and refreshed continuously as bills are introduced, amended, or change status.

The following data points are pulled from LegiScan for each bill:

Bill Discovery & Search Terms

Candidate bills are identified by running keyword searches against the LegiScan monitoring API. Bills matching one or more keywords below are retrieved and evaluated for inclusion. A keyword match is necessary but not sufficient for a bill to be included — the full bill text is reviewed before any bill is added to the corpus.

GroupSearch Terms
Core AI artificial intelligencemachine learningautomated decisionalgorithmicgenerative AIlarge language modelfoundation model
Output Types synthetic mediadeepfakeAI-generated contentdigital replicavoice cloning
Application Contexts automated employment decisionAI hiringbiometric surveillancefacial recognitionemotion detection
Governance AI risk managementalgorithmic impact assessmentAI transparencyAI accountabilityAI safety evaluation
Model-Specific training datacompute thresholdred-teamingmodel cardAI watermarkAI detection tool
Inclusion Criteria

A bill is included in Regulon.AI if it satisfies both of the following criteria:

Bill TypeStatusReason
Algorithmic pricing prohibitions targeting downstream commerce Excluded Consumer-protection law targeting commercial conduct, not AI developer/deployer obligations.
AI study, task force, or advisory committee bills only Excluded No operative compliance obligations on regulated entities.
General civil rights bills with incidental AI language Excluded Obligation arises from existing civil rights framework, not an AI-specific compliance requirement.
Bills regulating only individual end users Excluded End users are the protected party in AI legislation. Regulon.AI tracks obligations on regulated parties.
Failed bills prior to 2022 Excluded (currently) Failed bill corpus from 2022 onward is planned as a future addition.
Requirement Taxonomy
The Requirement Taxonomy

Every obligation in Regulon.AI is assigned to a requirement — a discrete compliance obligation type with a stable identifier. Requirements are organized into 11 categories covering the full range of obligations AI legislation currently imposes on developers and deployers.

The taxonomy is the backbone of the cross-bill structure. A requirement page for, say, AI Identity Disclosure links to every bill in the corpus that imposes that obligation — letting teams understand how the requirement varies in scope, threshold, and applicability across jurisdictions without reading each bill individually.

Category T
Transparency & Disclosure
Obligations to disclose AI involvement, system capabilities, or limitations to users or the public.
Category S
Safety & Risk Management
Pre-deployment and ongoing risk assessment, testing, and safety evaluation requirements.
Category H
Human Oversight & Control
Requirements to preserve human review, intervention, or override of automated decisions.
Category HC
High-Risk Classification
Criteria and procedures for classifying an AI system as high-risk, triggering additional obligations.
Category D
Data Governance
Training data documentation, data quality standards, and data provenance requirements.
Category G
Governance & Documentation
Internal policies, record-keeping, audit trails, and organizational accountability structures.
Category R
Individual Rights
Rights of individuals affected by AI decisions — explanation, appeal, opt-out, and correction.
Category MN
Model & System Requirements
Technical requirements applied to models — watermarking, capability thresholds, red-teaming.
Category CP
Compliance Programs
Formal compliance program requirements — designated officers, training, incident reporting.
Category PS
Professional Standards
Sector-specific obligations for licensed professionals using AI in regulated practice.
Category BM
Bias & Non-Discrimination
Testing, auditing, and remediation obligations related to discriminatory outputs or disparate impact.
Passage Likelihood Indicator
What the Passage Likelihood Indicator Shows

The Passage Likelihood indicator is a rule-based High / Medium / Low signal displayed on bill detail pages for active pending U.S. bills. It is intended to help compliance teams prioritize which bills warrant close monitoring and early planning.

The indicator is derived entirely from structured data returned by the LegiScan API. No editorial judgment is applied. It is not shown on enacted laws or failed bills.

High Passage Likelihood Medium Passage Likelihood Low Passage Likelihood
Important Framing A Low indicator does not mean a bill is unimportant for compliance planning. A bill with a low likelihood signal in a large state addressing a significant obligation may still warrant monitoring. The indicator helps teams prioritize attention — not decide what to ignore.
Scoring Rules

Scoring is evaluated top-down: each bill is assessed for High first, then Medium, then Low. A bill that qualifies as High is not re-evaluated against Medium criteria.

High Meets any one criterion
  • Passed both chambers — awaiting executive signature or action
  • Passed the chamber of origin — active in the second chamber
Medium Meets any one criterion & does not qualify as High
  • Passed out of at least one committee in the chamber of origin
  • Primary sponsor is a member of the majority party in the bill's originating chamber
  • A prior-session version of the bill advanced further than the current version
  • Has at least one cosponsor from a different party than the primary sponsor (bipartisan cosponsorship)
Low Meets all criteria
  • Introduced but no committee action recorded
  • Minority-party sponsor only, or sponsor party indeterminate
  • No bipartisan cosponsors
  • No prior session history, or prior version also stalled at introduction
Limitations of the Indicator

Rule-based, not predictive. The indicator applies deterministic rules to structured data. It does not use statistical modeling, historical passage rates, or machine learning. Political dynamics, leadership opposition, and budget constraints are not captured.

Committee passage detection is imperfect. LegiScan history action strings are free-text and vary across states. Keyword matching may miss atypical phrasings used in some legislatures. Missed detections are treated conservatively — a bill with an undetected committee passage may show a lower signal than warranted.

Federal bills. The indicator applies to U.S. state and federal bills where majority party data is available. Bills from jurisdictions absent from the majority party lookup will show an indeterminate sponsor-party signal.