Legislative Updates

The week kept the pressure on multi-state employers from two directions at once. Federally, the administration’s “Super Intelligence” executive order and the DOJ’s new AI Litigation Task Force signaled a push to preempt state AI rules … though no statute has actually displaced them, so the laws on your compliance calendar still govern. At the state level, California’s newly signed “No Robo Bosses Act” (SB 947) will restrict how employers use automated systems in discipline and termination decisions starting in 2027. Internationally, the clock is the story: the EU’s first hard watermarking deadline under the Digital Omnibus lands December 2, 2026, with the bulk of high-risk obligations now pushed to late 2027. Net takeaway: plan to the deadlines already on the books, and treat the federal preemption push as a risk to monitor, not a reason to pause compliance.