AI Laws in Mattoon, Illinois
AI Laws USA tracks 35 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Mattoon, Illinois: 10+ federal rules, 24 Illinois state-level rules, and 1 local Mattoon ordinance. Coverage is strongest on consumer protection, automated decision-making, consumer data privacy, and government use of AI. 20 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Mattoon local AI rules (and Coles County County)
1 local AI rule specific to Mattoon, Illinois or Coles County County.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Strength: moderate
Mattoon IL self-renewing data center moratorium (2026)
Mattoon, IL · Enacted September 1, 2026 · City of Mattoon, IL data center moratorium resolution (Sept. 1, 2026)
Mattoon's City Council voted 5-0 on September 1, 2026 to pause large-scale data center development for a year. The pause renews automatically every year unless the council passes a resolution to end it, which requires a public hearing first. During the pause, the city bars construction of data centers of 21,780 square feet or more and will not accept applications for new ones. City officials said no one had approached them about building a data center; water use was a main concern after a water crisis last year.
Illinois-level AI rules most relevant to Mattoon
24 Illinois state rules apply to residents and businesses in Mattoon. Showing the 8 most relevant to Mattoon's local picture; 16 more are on the Illinois jurisdiction page.
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In effect Strength: moderate
Illinois data center tax-incentive pause (DCEO, July 2026)
Illinois · Effective July 1, 2026 · Office of Gov. JB Pritzker, 'Gov. Pritzker Pauses New Data Center Tax Incentives' (June 5, 2026); Data Center Investment Program pause effective July 1, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker told the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to stop processing new agreements under the Data Center Investment Program, the state's data center tax-incentive program, starting July 1, 2026. Agreements signed before July 1 will be honored. He also set out a seven-point framework he wants lawmakers to pass, covering data centers paying their own grid costs, clean energy, water permits, air quality and community transparency. The pause does not ban data centers; the regulations require legislation, which did not pass in the spring session.
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In effect Strength: limited
Policy on the Acceptable and Responsible Use of Artificial I
Illinois · Effective April 1, 2025 · Policy on the Acceptable and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence
The Illinois DoIT policy governs how state agencies under the Governor's jurisdiction may develop, deploy, and use AI systems, requiring each utilizing agency to designate an AI point of contact and inventory deployed AI systems within 30 days.
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In effect Strength: stronger
HB 3773 (AI Employment Discrimination)
Illinois · Effective January 1, 2026 · P.A. 103-0804, amending 775 ILCS 5; P.A. 104-0425 (SB 2487, 2026 civil penalty amendment)
Illinois employers may not use AI in ways that discriminate against protected classes in recruitment, hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, or other employment terms, and may not use zip codes as a proxy for protected characteristics. Employers must notify workers and applicants when AI is used in employment decisions.
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Enacted (not yet in effect) Strength: moderate
AI Safety Measures Act (frontier model audits)
Illinois · Effective January 1, 2027 · IL SB315 (104th General Assembly, 2025-2026)
Illinois is the first state to require independent third-party safety audits of the largest 'frontier' AI developers (companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind). Covered developers — those with >$500M annual gross revenue whose models meet defined compute thresholds — must publish and annually update a frontier AI safety framework addressing catastrophic risks (defined as incidents threatening 50+ deaths, serious injuries, or $1B+ in damages), file transparency reports before deploying new or substantially modified models, report critical safety incidents within 72 hours (24 hours for imminent harm), and protect whistleblowers. Enforced by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security with the Attorney General; civil penalties; no private right of action. Law takes effect January 1, 2027; audit requirements operative January 1, 2028.
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In effect Strength: limited
IL Bar AI Standing Committee
IL · Effective January 1, 2025 · Ill. Sup. Ct. Policy on AI (eff. Jan. 1, 2025)
Illinois Supreme Court adopted a Policy on Artificial Intelligence (effective January 1, 2025) authorizing AI use by attorneys, judges, and court staff provided it complies with legal and ethical standards. The policy explicitly states that disclosure of AI use should not be required in a pleading, and does not impose mandatory CLE requirements; instead it supports ongoing education on AI and holds all users accountable for thoroughly reviewing AI-generated content before submission.
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In effect Strength: limited
IL AV local-preemption (2017)
Illinois · Effective August 25, 2017 · P.A. 100-352; 625 ILCS 65
Illinois has not enacted a comprehensive AV testing/deployment statute; instead, the Autonomous Vehicles Act preempts local governments (including Chicago) from prohibiting the use of automated driving systems or requiring an AV-specific operator license. As of 2026 the legislature still has not adopted a Texas/Florida-style operational framework.
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In effect Strength: moderate
IL WOPR (AI therapy ban)
IL · Effective August 1, 2025 · P.A. 104-0054; 225 ILCS 8/
Illinois banned AI-only therapy and made it unlawful for AI products to claim or imply they can provide mental-health treatment without a licensed clinician supervising. Aimed at consumer-protection harms from companion/therapy chatbots that misrepresent clinical credentials.
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In effect Strength: limited
IL DOI AI Bulletin
IL · Effective March 13, 2024 · Illinois DOI Company Bulletin 2024-08 (2024-03-13)
The IL Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in IL 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.
Federal AI rules that apply in Mattoon, Illinois
These federal rules apply everywhere in the United States, including Mattoon, Illinois. 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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Compliance guides for Illinois businesses
Plain-English guides to the Illinois AI and data laws companies most often need to comply with:
Illinois biometric privacy law (BIPA) · Illinois AI Video Interview Act
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