State Health AI Law Tracker/California
California AB 489 · Clinical decision support · Enacted
Health professions: artificial intelligence systems
Effective January 1, 2027
What the law does
California AB 489 (Chapter 340, Statutes of 2025) limits how AI systems can present themselves in healing-arts contexts. It restricts AI from implying it holds a license that belongs to a human clinician and gives state healing-arts boards enforcement tools. The Act takes effect January 1, 2027.
- State
- California
- Bill number
- AB 489
- Topic
- Clinical decision support
- Status
- Enacted
- Date enacted
- October 6, 2025
- Date effective
- January 1, 2027
- Applies to
- Vendors, Providers
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