Claim · 2025-09-29 · publication · Inferred · Supported

No passage meeting the law question “In force” was found in California SB 53 within the inspected scope.

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What it connects

California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chaptered → has no matching provision within the inspected scope → In force

Where it appears

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Claim and evidence

California SB 53 (2025): Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, as chapteredhas no matching provision within the inspected scope ↓In force

Machine-checkedInferredSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Reasoning and premisesPremises: the law question asks for the following. The instrument’s own provision on entry into force, taking effect or operative date, quoted. A date computed from a rule (“the twentieth day following publication”) is quoted as the rule; any computed date is marked as computed. The inspected scope of California SB 53 was: Whole chaptered text: legislative counsel’s digest, SECTIONS 1–6, including SEC. 3 (Gov. Code § 11546.8) and SEC. 5. Terms searched: “operative”, “take effect”, “takes effect”, “effective”, “January 1”, “urgency”. Passages read and not counted: SEC. 3, Gov. Code § 11546.8(k): Makes the CalCompute section operative only upon an appropriation; it governs that section only, not the developer duties compared here. SEC. 2, Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 22757.13(g)(1), 22757.14(a), 22757.14(d)(1): “Beginning January 1, 2027” / “On or before January 1, 2027” set dates for reports by the Office of Emergency Services, the Department of Technology and the Attorney General, not the act’s effective date. SEC. 5(f); Legislative Counsel’s digest: “On or after January 1, 2025” defines the local rules that are preempted; the digest’s January 1, 2026 date describes existing law. The conclusion is bounded by that scope and method.

Provision: Stated date · provision ID comparison-law-q11
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 limitsNo provision in the chaptered text sets an effective or operative date for the act as a whole or for Chapter 25.1 of the Business and Professions Code. No date is inferred. A recorded absence within the stated scope of the text read: not evidence that the instrument lacks such a provision elsewhere, or that no other law imposes one.

The evidence 01

primary sourceSupports the claim

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

Within the inspected scope, no passage meeting the law question “In force” was found.

Location in source California SB 53: Whole chaptered text: legislative counsel’s digest, SECTIONS 1–6, including SEC. 3 (Gov. Code § 11546.8) and SEC. 5.

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

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.
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
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: Absence recorded for the laws-compared candidate pack (research/laws-compared) on 2026-11-01 by an automated research assistant and audited in a fresh context by the same model family. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-02, item 20) answered this cell blind and agreed with the pack. No human editorial review.

Status and meaning

Editorial status. Machine-checked. Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.

Relation. A recorded absence: within the stated locator scope of an exact edition, no passage stating the keyed provision was found. It is not an inferred deletion and says nothing about other documents, practice or intent.

Date. Dated as the text compared is dated: the date of issue of its version, “Chaptered (Stats. 2025, ch. 138)”.

Record ID lc-cell-ca-sb53-q11