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AI Laws in Ellicott City, Maryland
As of 2026-06-17, AI Laws USA tracks 22 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Ellicott City, Maryland: 10+ federal protections, 11 Maryland state-level rules, and 1 local Ellicott City ordinance. Coverage is strongest on automated decision-making, consumer protection, insurance AI, and deepfakes. 10 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Ellicott City local AI rules (and Howard County)
1 local AI rule specific to Ellicott City, Maryland or Howard County.
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In effect Limited protection
Howard County MD Public School System
Ellicott City, MD · Effective 2024-10-10 · Howard County MD Public School System — AI Use Policy Statement & Policy 8080 Update (2024-10-10)
Board approved Policy 8080 (Responsible Use of Technology) update with explicit AI section: tool vetting through HCPSS IT, ban on student data inputs into non-approved AI, AI disclosure expectations for graded work, prohibition on AI use as the sole basis for student discipline or special-education determinations.
Maryland-level AI rules most relevant to Ellicott City
11 Maryland state rules apply to residents and businesses in Ellicott City. Showing the 8 most relevant to Ellicott City's local picture; 3 more are on the Maryland jurisdiction page.
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In effect Limited protection
Maryland Online Data Privacy Act
Maryland · Effective 2025-10-01 · 2024 Md. Laws ch. 440 (SB 541); Md. Code Ann., Com. Law §§ 14-4601–14-4626
Maryland's privacy law is stricter than most: it prohibits processing sensitive personal data unless strictly necessary for the requested service. Consumers can access, correct, delete, and port their data, and opt out of automated profiling and targeted advertising. AG enforcement began April 2026.
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In effect Limited protection
MD DOI AI Bulletin
MD · Effective 2024-04-22 · Maryland Insurance Administration Bulletin 24-11 (2024-04-22)
The MD Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in MD must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Limited protection
Maryland Predatory Pricing Act (surveillance pricing)
Maryland · Effective 2026-10-01 · 2026 Md. Laws ch. 154 (HB 895)
This law bars food retailers and third-party delivery service providers from using a consumer's personal data or dynamic (surveillance) pricing to set a higher price for tax-exempt food for a specific consumer. It also prohibits using protected-class data to offer, advertise, or sell goods in a way that withholds an accommodation or advantage from the consumer the data pertains to. Violations are treated as unfair, abusive, or deceptive trade practices under the Maryland Consumer Protection Act.
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In effect Moderate protection
Maryland HB 820 (AI in insurance utilization review)
Maryland · Effective 2025-10-01 · 2025 Md. Laws ch. 747 (HB 820); Md. Code, Ins. 15-10A-06, 15-10B-05.1
When a Maryland carrier, pharmacy benefits manager, or private review agent uses artificial intelligence or an algorithm in utilization review, the tool's determinations must be based on the individual patient's clinical history, not solely on a group dataset. The AI may not replace the role of the reviewing provider, must not result in unfair discrimination, must remain open to audit, and may not deny, delay, or modify care in a way that harms enrollees. Carriers must report to the Insurance Commissioner quarterly on adverse decisions, including whether AI was used.
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In effect Limited protection
Maryland HB 1563 (AI-denial reporting)
Maryland · Effective 2026-06-01 · 2026 Md. Laws ch. 165 (HB 1563); Md. Code, Ins. 15-10A-06
Among other emergency-room and post-acute care provisions, this law expands the quarterly report that carriers must submit to the Maryland Insurance Commissioner. The report must include the number of adverse decisions and whether an artificial intelligence, algorithm, or other software tool was used in making them. The Commissioner may use this information as a basis for examining the carrier.
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In effect Limited protection
Maryland AI Governance Act (2024)
Maryland · Effective 2024-07-01 · 2024 Md. Laws ch. 496 (SB 818)
This law sets up a governance framework for how Maryland state government builds, buys, deploys, and uses artificial intelligence. Each state government unit must inventory the systems it uses that employ high-risk AI and conduct regular impact assessments. The Department of Information Technology is directed to develop and adopt policies covering the development, procurement, deployment, use, and ongoing assessment of high-risk AI systems.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Moderate protection
Maryland SB 8 (AI/deepfake impersonation)
Maryland · Effective 2026-10-01 · 2026 Md. Laws ch. 445 (SB 8)
This law makes it a crime to intentionally use artificial intelligence or a deepfake representation to impersonate, falsely depict, or claim to represent another person, or to create or distribute false records, with intent to cause harm, to induce someone to hand over personal identifying information, or to obtain a benefit, credit, good, service, or other thing of value. 'Deepfake representation' means synthetic media indistinguishable from an actual, identifiable human being, and a victim may bring a civil action.
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In effect Limited protection
Maryland CSAM Law (computer-generated images)
Maryland · Effective 2023-10-01 · Md. Code, Crim. Law 11-208
Maryland's child sexual abuse material statute reaches not only real photographs of children but also computer-generated images that an ordinary person could not tell apart from an actual, identifiable child under the age of 16. It is a crime to knowingly possess and intentionally retain, or to knowingly access and intentionally view, such material showing a child engaged in sexual conduct. Pure drawings, cartoons, sculptures, and paintings are excluded.
Federal AI rules that apply in Ellicott City, Maryland
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Ellicott City, Maryland. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Stronger protection
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective 2025-09-05 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup issued a split ruling: training on lawfully purchased books was fair use, but ingesting pirated copies from LibGen was not. In September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement — the largest AI copyright recovery to date.
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In effect Stronger protection
Banner v. Tesla (Autopilot)
S.D. Fla. · Effective 2025-08-01 · Banner v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-21940 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2025)
A Florida federal jury found Tesla 33% liable in August 2025 for the 2019 death of Naibel Benavides Leon, in a crash involving Autopilot. The verdict awarded $243M (later reduced to ~$220M) — the first Autopilot wrongful-death verdict against Tesla.
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In effect Stronger protection
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective 2025-06-23 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Stronger protection
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective 2025-05-19 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective 2025-03-18 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is constitutional and dispositive. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
D. Del. · Effective 2025-02-11 · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., 694 F. Supp. 3d 467 (D. Del. 2025)
Thomson Reuters sued legal-research startup Ross Intelligence in 2020 for copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI legal-research tool. In February 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation) granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and rejected Ross's fair-use defense — the first definitive U.S. ruling on AI-training fair use. The 2023 jury trial verdict had been deadlocked; the 2025 ruling resolved liability.
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In effect Stronger protection
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective 2024-11-20 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Stronger protection
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective 2024-04-30 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 30, 2024)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was permanently enjoined as unconstitutional in April 2024.
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In effect Stronger protection
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective 2024-04-01 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Stronger protection
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective 2024-02-08 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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