AI Laws in Jeffersonville, Indiana
AI Laws USA tracks 19 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Jeffersonville, Indiana: 10+ federal rules, 7 Indiana state-level rules, and 2 local Jeffersonville/county ordinances. Coverage is strongest on government use of AI, data-center siting and energy, consumer protection, and automated decision-making. 9 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Jeffersonville local AI rules (and Clark County)
2 local AI rules specific to Jeffersonville, Indiana or Clark County.
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In effect Strength: moderate
Jeffersonville IN one-year data center moratorium (2026)
Jeffersonville, IN · Effective August 3, 2026 · City of Jeffersonville, Ind. — One-Year Data Center Moratorium (Aug. 3, 2026)
The Jeffersonville City Council voted 8-0 on August 3, 2026 to halt new data center development for a year, and suspended its own standard rules to push the ordinance through all three required readings in a single session. The administration had proposed a six-month pause; Councilmember Jackie Snelling moved it to a full year, which pushes expiry to mid-2027 and — the stated reason — makes sure the plan commission has time to finish permanent zoning rules before the Indiana legislature is back in session and might constrain what cities can do. The year is for updating the city's Unified Development Ordinance to regulate data centers properly. One large carve-out defines the measure's real reach: it does not apply to the River Ridge Commerce Center or the Meta data center nearing completion there. River Ridge sits on the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant, and federal and state reuse statutes plus a decades-old interlocal agreement leave ultimate zoning authority with the River Ridge Development Authority rather than the city — so Jeffersonville could not have reached that site even if it wanted to. The vote came amid resident pushback and what local coverage described as major utility disclosures. Jeffersonville is in Clark County, across the Ohio River from Louisville.
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In effect Strength: moderate
Clark County IN one-year data center moratorium (2026)
Clark County, IN · Effective August 27, 2026 · Clark Cnty., Ind. — One-Year Data Center Moratorium (Aug. 27, 2026)
The Clark County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on data center construction in the unincorporated county at its August 27, 2026 meeting. The county had been weighing it since early July, when commissioners first signalled they might consider a pause on data center zoning. Clark County sits across the Ohio River from Louisville, and the county action followed its own largest city: Jeffersonville adopted a one-year municipal moratorium on August 3, 2026. Southern Indiana municipalities moved quickly on data center zoning through mid-2026, and between the city and county measures most of the county is now covered — though the River Ridge Commerce Center, built on the former Indiana Army Ammunition Plant, remains outside local zoning authority under federal and state reuse statutes and an interlocal agreement vesting control in the River Ridge Development Authority.
Indiana-level AI rules
7 Indiana state rules apply to residents and businesses in Jeffersonville. Sorted strongest first.
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In effect Strength: limited
I&M Industrial Power (Large Load) Tariff Settlement Order (C
Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (Indiana Michigan Power) · Effective February 19, 2025 · I&M Industrial Power (Large Load) Tariff Settlement Order (Cause No. 46097)
The Indiana URC approved a settlement modifying Indiana Michigan Power's Industrial Power Tariff for facilities of at least 70 MW (or 150 MW aggregated), requiring 12-year contracts, minimum monthly demand charges of 80% of contract capacity, exit fees, and collateral so grid-upgrade costs fall on data centers rather than existing ratepayers.
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In effect Strength: limited
State of Indiana Artificial Intelligence Policy
Indiana · Effective January 1, 2024 · State of Indiana Artificial Intelligence Policy
Indiana's state AI policy, issued by the Office of the Chief Data Officer, applies the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and requires agencies to submit an AI Readiness Assessment Questionnaire and report existing AI systems before use.
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In effect Strength: limited
Indiana SB 256 (foreign-adversary AI vendor & student rules)
Indiana · Effective July 1, 2026 · Ind. Senate Enrolled Act 256 (2026 Reg. Sess.) / Pub. L. 131-2026, eff. July 1, 2026
Indiana requires new or renewed government contracts for technological products or services — a category that expressly includes artificial intelligence, information systems, and surveillance technology — to include a certification that the contractor and its subcontractors are not 'prohibited persons,' meaning businesses controlled by or domiciled in a designated foreign adversary such as China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran. The law also restricts public colleges from enrolling students from those countries in certain qualifying (including AI) programs until a foreign-influence and research-security review is completed.
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In effect Strength: limited
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
Indiana · Effective January 1, 2026 · 2023 Ind. Acts P.L. 94-2023 (SB 5); I.C. 24-15-1 et seq.
Indiana's privacy law, effective January 1, 2026, gives residents rights to access, correct, delete, and port personal data, and to opt out of targeted advertising, data sales, and profiling. Enforced exclusively by the Attorney General with a permanent 30-day cure period.
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In effect Strength: limited
Indiana HB 1271 (no AI-only claim downcoding)
Indiana · Effective July 1, 2026 · Ind. House Enrolled Act 1271 (2026 Reg. Sess.), eff. July 1, 2026
Indiana bars health insurers from relying on an automated process or artificial intelligence as the only reason for downcoding a claim on medical-necessity grounds; an employee or contractor of the insurer must review the patient's medical record before such a downcode is applied. Health care providers likewise may not use AI to submit a claim without a human reviewing it. Insurers must disclose, in an easy-to-find and readable way, when AI is used to deny a prior-authorization request or to downcode a claim, must explain each downcode, and must give providers at least 180 days to appeal. The rules took effect July 1, 2026 and do not apply to Medicaid.
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In effect Strength: limited
IN NCII Deepfake Law
Indiana · Effective July 1, 2024 · 2024 Ind. Acts (HEA 1047); I.C. 35-45-4-8
Indiana criminalized creating and sharing AI-generated or digitally modified intimate images without consent, expanding its revenge-porn statute. Distribution is a Class A misdemeanor; repeat or aggravated conduct is a Level 6 felony (up to 30 months, $5,000).
Federal AI rules that apply in Jeffersonville, Indiana
These federal rules apply everywhere in the United States, including Jeffersonville, Indiana. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TVA data center capacity commitment charge (2026)
Tennessee Valley Authority · Effective October 1, 2026 · Tenn. Valley Auth. Bd. of Dirs. — Data Center Capacity Commitment Charge (approved Aug. 20, 2026; eff. Oct. 1, 2026)
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors approved a separate, higher wholesale rate for data centers on August 20, 2026, effective October 1. New or expanding data center loads above 5 megawatts now fall under a Capacity Commitment Charge attached to TVA's data center rate schedules, designed to recover the incremental capacity costs those customers impose on the system. The headline figures are substantial: upfront capacity commitment charges of roughly $1.5 million per megawatt, payable over three to five years, and an all-in average billing increase for data center customers of about 10%, phased in across three consecutive fiscal years. The stated purpose is to keep residential rates low while still serving growing data center demand. TVA matters here out of proportion to a single utility. It is a federal corporate agency supplying power across seven states, so this is not a state rate case but a regional cost-allocation decision reaching a large share of the Southeast — and TVA is among the first large US utilities to adopt a tariff aimed specifically at AI-driven load. Where most 2026 measures in this dataset restrict where data centers may be built, this one changes what they pay to run.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective September 5, 2025 · 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 ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) proceeded toward settlement; in September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement covering ~500,000 works. Judge Alsup granted preliminary approval September 25, 2025 and final approval July 20, 2026. The appeal period runs through August 19, 2026; class members will not receive payments until at least end of 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective June 23, 2025 · 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 Strength: stronger
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective May 19, 2025 · 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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Blocked / in litigation
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective April 16, 2025 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective March 18, 2025 · 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 dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective November 20, 2024 · 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 Strength: stronger
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective April 1, 2024 · 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 Strength: stronger
FTC v. Rite Aid
FTC · Effective February 26, 2024 · FTC v. Rite Aid Corp., No. 2:23-cv-05023 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 19, 2023)
The FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial-recognition technology in its stores for five years after finding the pharmacy chain's FRT system falsely tagged customers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading to wrongful detentions and humiliations.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective February 8, 2024 · 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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