The US State AI Call-Disclosure Patchwork: What Texas SB 140 Actually Says, and Which States Really Require Disclosure

If you run AI voice or chat outreach into the United States, the compliance question you keep getting asked — "do we legally have to say it's an AI?" — has no single federal answer. The FCC proposed one in August 2024 and has not adopted it. So the operative disclosure rules are state rules, and they are a genuine patchwork: different triggers, different wording, different timing, different enforc

What this covers

• The federal layer: consent rules, not disclosure rules
• The verified state map
• What Texas SB 140 actually does
• Where the map has holes
• What to actually implement

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This is a technical summary. The full guide — with the tables and worked examples — is on our site: *The US State AI Call-Disclosure Patchwork: What Texas SB 140 Actually Says, and Which States Really Require Disclosure*.

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