{
 "record_id": "WTA-R-US-CA-0004-001",
 "kind": "obligation",
 "record": {
  "record_id": "WTA-R-US-CA-0004-001",
  "provision": "Section 22757.12(a)-(b)",
  "applies_to": [
   "Developers"
  ],
  "duty": "Write, follow and publish a frontier AI framework covering catastrophic-risk thresholds, mitigations, third-party assessment, model-weight security, incident response and internal-use risk; review it yearly and publish material changes with justification within 30 days.",
  "type": "Frontier model safety",
  "status": "applies now",
  "applies_from": "2026-01-01",
  "url": "https://wheresthe.ai/id/WTA-R-US-CA-0004-001/",
  "rule": {
   "record_id": "WTA-R-US-CA-0004",
   "id": "us-ca-sb53-tfaia-2025",
   "title": "Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53)",
   "jurisdiction": "US-CA",
   "jurisdiction_name": "California",
   "url": "https://wheresthe.ai/rule/us-ca-sb53-tfaia-2025/"
  },
  "penalty": "Civil penalty up to $1,000,000 per violation, scaled to severity, recovered only by the Attorney General; applies to large frontier developers (Bus. & Prof. Code 22757.15).",
  "scope_note": "Large frontier developers only. Frontier developer: trained or began training a foundation model using more than 10^26 operations. Large frontier developer: frontier developer with affiliates over $500 million gross revenue in the prior calendar year (22757.11).",
  "date_note": "SB 53, Chapter 138, Statutes of 2025, approved 29 Sep 2025; in effect 1 Jan 2026.",
  "source_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC&sectionNum=22757.12",
  "verified_on": "2026-10-08",
  "citation": "WTA-R-US-CA-0004-001: Section 22757.12(a)-(b), Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (SB 53). wheresthe.ai, https://wheresthe.ai/id/WTA-R-US-CA-0004-001/ (checked 2026-10-08)."
 },
 "history": [],
 "note": "Informational, not legal advice. Every record links to its official source; check it before relying on a record. Cite as \"Source: wheresthe.ai\"."
}