Claim · 2025-09-29 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

California SB 53 states in part what the law question “Outside assessment” asks.

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California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chaptered → states provision → Outside assessment

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Claim and evidence

California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chapteredstates provision ↓Outside assessment

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Provision: Required action · provision ID comparison-law-q06
Subject version: Chaptered (Stats. 2025, ch. 138) · Published 2025-09-29 · Effective 2026-01-01
Date: 2025-09-29 · publication Records dated 2025 →

Scope and limitsThe Office of Emergency Services shall review critical safety incident reports submitted by frontier developers: a review of filings, not of the model. The framework must describe how the developer approaches using third parties to assess catastrophic risks (§ 22757.12(a)(5)), and the transparency report summarises the extent to which third-party evaluators were involved (§ 22757.12(c)(2)(C)); neither requires an outside assessment. Search for the rest of the criterion: SEC. 2 in full; SEC. 3 (Gov. Code § 11546.8); SEC. 4. Terms searched: “third part”, “independent”, “audit”, “review”, “evaluat”. Passages read and not counted: SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(a)(5): Describes the content of the developer’s framework (its approach to using third parties); does not require an outside assessment. SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.12(c)(2)(C): Disclosure of the extent of third-party evaluator involvement; involvement is not required. SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.14(b)(5): Concerns external verifiability of coverage definitions in the Department of Technology’s recommendations, not assessment of a model. Paraphrased with its locator, not quoted: quoting it would pass the source’s quotation limit, or the source’s length is not known. Stated, partly: the passage has what the question’s criterion asks for, in a weaker form than the criterion’s own words. What the instrument’s text states, from the expression read. A cell records what the text requires of the parties it defines: not whether any developer falls within them, or complied.

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SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

California State Legislature · 2025-09-29

Archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025)

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Paraphrase

The Office of Emergency Services must review the critical safety incident reports that frontier developers submit.

Location in source SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.13(d)

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Machine-checked · 2026-11-04

Source details and check notes

Authors: California Legislature
Version: Chaptered version dated 09/29/25, inspected live 2026-10-04; quote also matched in the 2025-09-30 capture. Publisher as printed on the inspected expression: California Legislature (California Legislative Information, Office of Legislative Counsel). Retrieved again for the laws-compared candidate pack on 2026-11-01 as one member of the Legislative Counsel’s database file (pubinfo_2025.zip), because the Legislature’s website refused the request (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c); the pack’s quotations were matched in it, and again in fresh retrievals of 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04.
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Accessed: 2026-10-04
Language: English (en)
Archive copy: Open archived copy, captured 2025-09-30: SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025). Captured 1 day after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2025-09-30. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-04.
Attribution: California Legislature, SB-53 Artificial intelligence models: large developers. (2025-2026) — bill text, chaptered version (Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025).
Reuse: Official government text; no redistribution licence asserted. Selekoa practice: metadata, attributed paraphrases and short attributed quotations under the editorial policy (at most 50 words each; at most 400 quoted words per document across the dataset, and about 10% of a document under about 2,000 words). Documents are linked externally, not redistributed. Publisher terms that forbid quotation override this practice.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, laws compared (research/laws-compared), cell ca-sb53:Q06. Paraphrase of a passage that matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-01 (SHA-256 20c44f4865db314fae2747d998189d47e70bf4cafb4add7be2294d0a73562b3c) and again on 2026-11-02 and 2026-11-04. Not quoted: SB 53 is at its quotation limit (maintainer decision 1a of 2026-11-03). A cross-family machine check (2026-11-02, item 18) answered this cell blind and agreed with the pack. No human editorial review.

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