## SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

**Senator Anna Caballero, Chair**

**2023 - 2024 Regular Session**

**SB 1047 (Wiener) - Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence**
**Models Act**

**Version: April 30, 2024** **Policy Vote: JUD. 9 - 0, G.O. 11 - 0**

**Urgency: No** **Mandate: Yes**

**Hearing Date: May 16, 2024** **Consultant: Liah Burnley**


**Bill Summary: SB 1047 requires developers of artificial intelligence (AI) models to**
implement safeguards and policies to prevent specified hazards and threats to public
safety and authorizes the Attorney General (AG) to enforce these provisions. SB 1047
also establishes the Frontier Model Division within the Department of Technology (CDT)
to oversee the development of AI models and requires CDT to commission consultants
to create a public cloud computing cluster “CalCompute,” to conduct research into the
safe and secure deployment of large-scale AI models.

# *********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM – SUSPENSE FILE ***********

**The following information is revised to reflect amendments**

**adopted by the committee on May 16, 2024**


**Fiscal Impact:**

-  CDT indicates significant one-time costs and ongoing costs (General Fund) to

implement this bill.

-  Judicial Council estimates minor and absorbable costs.



-  Unknown workload cost pressures (General Fund, Trial Court Trust Fund) to the

courts.

-  Potential non-reimbursable annual costs (local funds, General Fund) in the hundreds

of thousands of dollars to counties for increased incarceration costs relating to the
expansion of felony perjury in this bill.

**Author Amendments: Delete several provisions related to responsibilities of the**
Frontier Model Division, as specified.

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