>> With the clock ticking on Springfield, Spring session.

Lawmakers are just hustling to pass a budget to negotiate a Bears stadium deal.

They're also working through a slew of other legislation that's trying to make its way through the General Assembly before the Sunday deadline.

Nic Lumber joins us from the capital with a rundown of the major items, including some that the governor is eager to see passed.

Nick.

>> That's right.

You know, brand is for a lot of us.

Ai is no doubt one of the major concerns on our mind state lawmakers.

They are no different.

That's why the Illinois General Assembly just passed new AI regulations that some experts are calling the toughest in the nation.

The bill just passed yesterday and now heads to the governor's desk.

The goal here is transparency.

Measure calls on AI developers to explain how the company accounts for major risks, the metrics it uses to determine what its models can do, as well as how it handles safety incidence.

Among other things, it also mandates third-party audits to make sure that those AI firms are actually following the frameworks.

They come up with now, while this bill have the support of major AI players like OpenAI and traffic, the American Innovators Network, that's a group representing AI startups and entrepreneurs.

They've urged state lawmakers to rethink this measure.

Quote, the Illinois General Assembly has taken a misguided approach to AI regulation by establishing a burdensome audit requirement to assess AI companies based on auditing standards that do not yet exist effectively handing the power to write Illinois lot of which after accounting firm gets hired, it goes on whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.

Policymakers are legislating in an arena dominated by trillion-dollar companies is a real difference between a start-up that marginally clears the 500 million dollar threshold.

And in enterprise doing billions and business every week, I think most of us would agree.

500 million dollars still a good chunk of change.

Despite that pushback, Governor JB Pritzker says he plans to sign the bill.

There are also some other anti bills still under consideration.

Things like regulations for chatbots use for mental health care customer service as well as some restrictions on arrives, should say are reporting requirements for the use of AI in school.

>> And Nic, there's also a couple of other measures that we've been following that have the governor's tells about those.

>> That's right.

Pritzker has also announced that he will sign bills passed yesterday.

These would give the state's Department of Insurance the right to reject auto or home rate increases that have been deemed excessive.

That's something that advocates have long called for a given skyrocketing insurance premiums.

Another item with the governor's backing would create the children's Online Safety Act.

Now, this one would mandate age verification.

It would prevent auto play media for minors and it would block notifications to minors between 10:00PM and 07:00AM.

And we heard about this from the governor back in February in his state of the state speech, he called that social media platforms for creating mental health problems in teens and for contributing to misinformation and polarization.

That bill still needs to pass the state Senate before King go back to the House for a final okay.

>> And Nic, there's also a measure aimed at protecting the privacy of patients who are seeking abortion care.

Tell us about that.

>> That's right.

As we reported, Illinois has become a major destination for patients after the rollback of abortion rights following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022, according to the research and advocacy organization, the Guttmacher Institute about one in 4 patients seeking care in a state other than where they live have come to Illinois for that abortion care.

Now, this bill is expected to pass the state Senate.

It requires health information exchanges to come up with policies that essentially segregate that health care information related to abortion care as well as gender dysphoria and in most all instances, it would prevent the release of that health information to any out of state entity.

It would also block and electronic health network from telling providers and the other state that that information has been withheld.

Now, that one will still need to go back to the Illinois House for a final.

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