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New Mexico

8 of 9 named instruments researched to a stage, across four of the ten areas of law we track: 8 in force. As of .

When each starts5 of 8 carry a date, 3 do not.
2017: 2 instruments (2 in force) ’17 2018: 0 instruments 2019: 0 instruments 2020: 0 instruments ’20 2021: 0 instruments 2022: 0 instruments 2023: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2024: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2025: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2026: 0 instruments ’26 today

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  1. AI law 2
  2. Privacy law 2
  3. Scraping law 1
  4. Cybersecurity law 3
  5. Communications law not researched
  6. Content moderation law not researched
  7. Product and AI liability law not researched
  8. Digital accessibility law not researched
  9. Age gating law
  10. Reuse law

AI law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (283 words)

New Mexico's most consequential enacted AI-specific duty lives in its election law.

House Bill 182 (2024) amended the Campaign Reporting Act's disclaimer section, Section 1-19-26.4, and enacted a new Section 1-19-26.8 to require a disclaimer on a political advertisement containing materially deceptive media, an image, video or audio that depicts an individual doing or saying something they did not do or say, is published without that individual's consent, and is produced in whole or in part using artificial intelligence, and separately makes distributing such media without the required disclaimer a crime; the New Mexico Ethics Commission has stated it has never taken enforcement action under the requirement, including against a political-satire outlet that has filed a pre-enforcement lawsuit challenging it.

Outside election law, no New Mexico statute imposes a general consumer-facing duty to disclose AI use, label synthetic content, or govern high-risk automated decisions.

New Mexico's Sexual Exploitation of Children Act already reaches an AI-generated or AI-altered image independent of that legislative activity: its definition of a visual or print medium expressly includes computer or electronically generated imagery, and Section 30-6A-3(F) and (G) separately criminalize manufacturing or distributing an obscene medium in which a real child, who was not an actual participant, is depicted as a participant, reaching a morphed or synthetic depiction of an identifiable child regardless of whether any child was actually photographed engaging in the depicted act.

New Mexico's general Unfair Practices Act, not itself an AI-specific statute, is reported to be the basis of an Attorney General inquiry into AI chatbot and companion-app providers, on the same deceptive-trade-practices terms as any other consumer complaint. No New Mexico bill naming artificial intelligence specifically has been enacted to expand this coverage.

AI prohibited practices

Sexual Exploitation of Children Act, morphed and computer-generated image provisions

N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-6A-3(F), (G)enrolled act text, New Mexico Legislature, House Bill 65 (2016), which restated Section 30-6A-3, including subsections F and G

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Sexual Exploitation of Children Act defines a visual or print medium to include a computer diskette, videotape, videodisc, or any computer or electronically generated imagery (Section 30-6A-2(B)), so the Act's coverage is not limited to a photograph of a real event.

Section 30-6A-3(F) makes it unlawful to intentionally manufacture an obscene visual or print medium depicting a prohibited sexual act if the person knows or has reason to know that a real child under eighteen, who is not a participant, is depicted as a participant in that act, a fourth degree felony. Section 30-6A-3(G) makes distributing such a medium a third degree felony.

Neither subsection requires that any child actually engaged in the depicted conduct; both reach a medium, including one that is computer or electronically generated, that depicts an identifiable real child as if they were a participant in a prohibited sexual act when they were not, which covers an artificial-intelligence-generated or artificial-intelligence-altered image or video inserting or morphing a real child's likeness into sexually explicit content.

House Bill 65 of 2016 restated Section 30-6A-3, including subsections (F) and (G), and declares an emergency, taking effect on the day of the Governor's signature. The annotations to the New Mexico Compilation Commission's compilation record the 2016 amendment of this section as effective . The same annotations record that the 2007 amendment, effective , added Subsections E and F and relettered former Subsection E as Subsection G.

What it requires

AI transparency

HB 182 (2024), AI-generated and manipulated media disclosure and disclaimer requirements in campaign advertising

N.M. Stat. Ann. §§ 1-19-26.4, 1-19-26.8enrolled bill text, New Mexico Legislature, House Bill 182 (2024)

archived copyRead from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived 2024. Publisher's page: https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/24%20Regular/final/HB0182.pdf

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Section 1-19-26.4, as amended by 2024's HB 182, requires a person who creates, produces or purchases a campaign advertisement containing materially deceptive media to include a disclaimer stating that the content has been manipulated or generated by artificial intelligence, displayed legibly for the duration of a video and spoken clearly at the start and end of an audio message (and at least every two minutes if longer than two minutes).

Materially deceptive media is defined as an image, video or audio that depicts an individual engaged in conduct or speech in which they did not engage, published without the depicted individual's consent, and produced in whole or in part using artificial intelligence.

The duty does not apply to a bona fide news broadcast that discloses the manipulation, a broadcaster that supplied and disclosed its own disclaimer requirements to advertisement purchasers, or an advertisement that reasonably constitutes satire or parody if it includes the required disclaimer.

A new Section 1-19-26.8, also enacted by HB 182, separately makes it a violation of the Campaign Reporting Act to distribute, or to agree with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media, and allows the attorney general, a district attorney, a falsely depicted individual, an injured or likely-to-be-injured candidate, or a voter-representing organization to seek injunctive relief.

A first conviction under Section 1-19-26.8 is a misdemeanor and a second conviction is a fourth degree felony. Failing to include the Section 1-19-26.4(D) disclaimer is separately subject to a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars per violation, capped at twenty thousand dollars in total, under Section 1-19-34.6(C).

HB 182 carried no separate effective-date clause, so it takes effect under Article IV, Section 23 of the New Mexico Constitution: a law without an emergency clause takes effect ninety days after the adjournment of the legislature that enacted it. The 2024 legislative session adjourned sine die on , placing the Act's commencement, ninety days later, at .

What it requires

Privacy law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (242 words)

New Mexico has no comprehensive consumer personal-data-protection statute; recent comprehensive bills (HB 307, HB 410, and SB 420 in the 2025 session, and SB 53, the CHISPA Act, in the 2026 session) have not been enacted. New Mexico's privacy law is instead two separate sectoral statutes.

The Data Breach Notification Act, NMSA 1978 Secs. 57-12C-1 to 57-12C-12, requires notice to affected residents within 45 days of discovery and, above a 1,000-resident threshold, to the Attorney General, exempts state government entirely, and creates no private right of action; its personal identifying information definition includes biometric data, but that definition is purpose-bound to authenticating access to a location, device, system, or account rather than to identification generally, so whether it reaches an identifier derived from a public recording for identification purposes cannot be determined from the statute's own text.

The Genetic Information Privacy Act, NMSA 1978 Secs. 24-21-1 to 24-21-7, requires informed written consent before a person obtains, analyzes, retains, transmits, or uses an individual's genetic information, subject to eleven statutory exceptions, and expressly arms an injured individual with a private civil action for damages, distinct from and broader than the Attorney General's or a district attorney's own enforcement authority.

New Mexico's official statute compilation portal, nmonesource.com, returns only navigation chrome through a JavaScript application with no statute text, so both instruments below are sourced to their official enrolled bill text on the New Mexico Legislature's own site rather than to the compiled code.

Breach notification

Data Breach Notification Act

Laws 2017, ch. 36, House Bill 15, Sections 1 to 12 (NMSA 1978, Secs. 57-12C-1 to 57-12C-12)official New Mexico enrolled bill text

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A person that owns or licenses computerized data including a New Mexico resident's personal identifying information must notify each affected resident of a security breach in the most expedient time possible and no later than 45 calendar days after discovery, and a breach affecting more than 1,000 New Mexico residents also triggers notice to the Attorney General's office and major consumer reporting agencies.

Personal identifying information includes biometric data, defined as a record generated by automatic measurement of fingerprints, a voiceprint, iris or retina patterns, facial characteristics, or hand geometry used to authenticate access to a physical location, device, system, or account, alongside a Social Security number, a driver's license number, and financial account information, and excludes information lawfully obtained from publicly available sources or government records.

The Act exempts the State of New Mexico and its political subdivisions entirely. The Attorney General has sole authority to bring an action for a violation, may obtain an injunction and damages for actual costs or losses, and may seek a civil penalty of the greater of $25,000 or $10 per failed notification up to $150,000; the Act creates no private right of action. Enacted by Laws 2017, chapter 36 (House Bill 15); the Act took effect on .

What it requires

Sensitive categories

Genetic Information Privacy Act

Laws 1998, Chapter 77, House Bill 331, Sections 1 to 7 (NMSA 1978, Secs. 24-21-1 to 24-21-7)official New Mexico enrolled bill text

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

No person may obtain genetic information or samples for genetic analysis from an individual, or perform genetic analysis or collect, retain, transmit, or use genetic information, without first obtaining the individual's or their authorized representative's informed, written consent, subject to eleven numbered exceptions covering law enforcement, newborn screening, de-identified use, medical repositories, research, and laboratory analysis ordered in writing by a health care practitioner.

Person is not limited to government or insurers; a separate section prohibits genetic discrimination specifically by insurers. Enacted in 1998 (House Bill 331) and amended in 2015 (House Bill 369, which replaced person with individual in the penalties subsection); the enrolled bill carries no commencement clause, and no page stating the day the Act came into force has been located.

What it requires

Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (235 words)

New Mexico diverges from the federal baseline through its Computer Crimes Act, NMSA 1978 sections 30-45-1 to 30-45-7, which reaches automated computer access through three offenses (computer access with intent to defraud or embezzle, computer abuse, and unauthorized computer use) graded entirely by the dollar value of the resulting property or service damage, from a petty misdemeanor at two hundred fifty dollars or less up to a second degree felony above twenty thousand dollars, rather than by a standalone bare-access element.

Nothing in the Act's own text exempts ordinary, non-disruptive automated access to a publicly available page from its authorization requirement, and no New Mexico case applying the Act to a scraping or bulk-collection fact pattern was located.

New Mexico has no comprehensive consumer data privacy statute reaching scraped public personal data at the state level; its Genetic Information Privacy Act and Data Breach Notification Act are sectoral and are covered under the privacy topic, not restated here. Terms-of-service enforceability rests on ordinary New Mexico contract law, with no statutory modification located.

The New Mexico Unfair Practices Act, NMSA sections 57-12-1 to 57-12-26, prohibits unfair or deceptive trade practices in commerce and is available in principle against a scraping-adjacent unfair-competition claim, untested against scraping specifically. Copyright, text-and-data-mining, database rights, and robots.txt's legal weight raise only the federal and common-law questions the national document already covers; New Mexico adds no state-specific statute on any of them.

Computer misuse

Computer Crimes Act, unauthorized computer use

N.M. Stat. Ann. § 30-45-5official New Mexico Statutes Annotated 1978 text, Chapter 30 (Criminal Offenses), New Mexico Compilation Commission (nmonesource.com)

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Computer Crimes Act's definitions section, Section 30-45-2, defines access, computer, computer network, computer property, computer service and related terms broadly, and the Act then creates three offenses. Section 30-45-3 punishes computer access with intent to defraud or embezzle.

Section 30-45-4 punishes computer abuse: altering, damaging, disrupting or destroying computer property or a computer service, or introducing data known to be false with intent to harm another's property or financial interests.

Section 30-45-5 separately punishes unauthorized computer use: knowingly, willfully and without authorization, or exceeding the scope of an authorization obtained, accessing, using, taking, transferring, concealing, obtaining, copying or retaining possession of a computer, computer network, computer property, computer service or computer system.

Each of these three offenses is graded solely by the dollar value of the damage to the computer property or computer service, from a petty misdemeanor at two hundred fifty dollars or less through a misdemeanor, a fourth degree felony, a third degree felony, up to a second degree felony above twenty thousand dollars; the Act does not add a separate, higher-graded bare-access offense the way some peer states do.

Section 30-45-6 allows prosecution under other law in addition to the Act and requires restitution for financial loss in addition to any other punishment. Section 30-45-7 subjects computer property, equipment, materials, conveyances and proceeds used in a violation to forfeiture under the Forfeiture Act.

No New Mexico case was located applying the Act to an automated web-scraping or bulk-data-collection fact pattern, and nothing in the Act's text exempts ordinary, non-disruptive automated access to a publicly available page from the authorization requirement. The codified text's history note for Section 30-45-5 reads Laws 1989, ch. 215, § 5 and Laws 2006, ch. 29, § 24, and no day on which Section 30-45-5 came into force has been located.

What it requires

Cybersecurity law3 instruments, 3 in force

Research summary (414 words)

New Mexico's product-security and cyber-resilience posture rests on one enacted statute, the Data Breach Notification Act's storage-security and disposal duties, NMSA 1978 Secs. 57-12C-3 to 57-12C-5 (Laws 2017, ch. 36, House Bill 15), which require a person that owns or licenses the personal identifying information of a New Mexico resident to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information, to arrange for proper disposal of records containing that information once they are no longer reasonably needed for business purposes, and to require by contract that any service provider it discloses the information to do the same.

This jurisdiction's breach-notification duty, the same Act's Sec. 57-12C-6, is already documented as this jurisdiction's privacy row rather than repeated here. No enacted New Mexico statute sets security requirements a connected device or software product must meet before or after it reaches the market, and no pending bill of that kind was located.

New Mexico has no general private-sector duty to report an exploited vulnerability or a security incident to an authority: NMSA 1978 Chapter 9, Article 27A, the Cybersecurity Act enacted by Senate Bill 280 of 2023 and in effect from , creates a cybersecurity office and a centralized cybersecurity and data-breach reporting process for agencies and political subdivisions of the state, government bodies rather than a private business; the Act and the chief information security officer's incident reporting order are filed as rows of their own with no activity flag.

Several secondary trackers list New Mexico among the states that have adopted the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law, but the citation those trackers give for it is the state-government Cybersecurity Act just described, which does not support that claim, and no other codified New Mexico insurance-sector data-security statute was located; the one primary artifact found is a March 2024 Office of Superintendent of Insurance bulletin directing an information request to major medical carriers and pharmacy benefit managers under the Superintendent's general inquiry power over Insurance Code licensees, a request the bulletin itself describes as aligned with the NAIC model's notification framework rather than as an exercise of a codified security-program duty.

No confirmed New Mexico insurance data-security statute is filed here on that record. New Mexico's Cybersecurity Act took effect on . The state chief information security officer's cybersecurity incident reporting order requires an agency or political subdivision to notify and consult with the Office of Cybersecurity within 24 hours of discovering an incident.

Sector security regimes

Cybersecurity Act, cybersecurity office powers over state agencies

Cybersecurity Act, Laws 2023, ch. 115, Senate Bill 280, Sections 3 and 5 (NMSA 1978, Secs. 9-27A-3 and 9-27A-5)Text of Senate Bill 280 (2023), the Cybersecurity Act, as enrolled, published by the New Mexico Legislature

In force since . Binds government bodies.

What this law does

The Cybersecurity Act took effect on . The cybersecurity office is managed by the security officer. The security officer is the state chief information security officer. The Act defines an agency as the executive cabinet agencies and their administratively attached agencies, offices, boards and commissions. The cybersecurity office may adopt and implement rules establishing minimum security standards and policies to protect agency information technology systems and infrastructure.

The security officer may issue orders regarding the compliance of agencies with guidelines or recommendations of the cybersecurity advisory committee. Compliance with those guidelines or recommendations by non-executive agencies or county, municipal or tribal governments is strictly voluntary. The cybersecurity office may establish a centralized cybersecurity and data breach reporting process for agencies and political subdivisions of the state.

What it requires

Security baseline statutes

Data Breach Notification Act, security and disposal duties

Laws 2017, ch. 36, House Bill 15, Sections 3 to 5 (NMSA 1978, Secs. 57-12C-3 to 57-12C-5)official New Mexico enrolled bill text

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A person that owns or licenses personal identifying information of a New Mexico resident must implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

The same person must arrange for proper disposal, meaning shredding, erasing, or otherwise modifying the information to make it unreadable or undecipherable, of records containing personal identifying information once they are no longer reasonably needed for business purposes.

Where a person discloses personal identifying information to a service provider under contract, that contract must require the service provider to implement and maintain the same reasonable security procedures and practices.

The Act exempts the State of New Mexico and its political subdivisions entirely, and enforcement is confined to the Attorney General, who may obtain an injunction, damages for actual costs or losses, and, for a knowing or reckless violation, a civil penalty of $25,000; the Act creates no private right of action. Enacted by Laws 2017, chapter 36 (House Bill 15); the Act took effect on .

What it requires

Vulnerability and incident reporting

Cybersecurity incident reporting order for agencies and political subdivisions

Cybersecurity Incident Reporting, Order No. 2025-01 of the New Mexico Chief Information Security Officer, paragraphs 2 to 4 and 6 to 7Text of Order No. 2025-01 of the New Mexico Chief Information Security Officer, published by the Department of Information Technology

In force since . Binds government bodies.

What this law does

The Order directs an agency or political subdivision of the state to notify and consult with the Office of Cybersecurity within 24 hours of discovering a cybersecurity incident involving the public entity or one of its vendors. The affected public entity must notify and consult with the Office of Cybersecurity before notifying any other entity, unless law or contract requires it to notify another outside entity directly, in which case it reports to both at the same time.

A notification to the Office of Cybersecurity is made by calling (833) 42-CYBER (833-422-9237). Each agency and political subdivision must designate a point of contact within 10 days of receiving the Order. The Order adopts the definition of a cybersecurity incident developed by FISMA. Non-executive agencies and tribal governments are strongly encouraged to comply voluntarily with the Order. The Order is effective as of the date the security officer signed it. The security officer signed the Order on .

What it requires

Where nothing was found2 areas of law

These areas of law were researched here and no instrument was recorded. Each finding says what the research checked, as of the date under it. It describes our search, not a guarantee that no such law exists.

Age gating law

New Mexico has not enacted an age verification or age gating law covering adult content, social media, app stores, or design codes as of mid-2026. HB 44 of the 2025 regular session was the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, an age verification bill for websites. HB 44 died in committee without a floor vote in either chamber. HB 313 of the 2025 regular session was the Digital Age Verification Act, a device and app store age verification bill.

HB 313 likewise died in committee without a floor vote in either chamber. The state's Attorney General has instead relied on New Mexico's general Unfair Practices Act to pursue child safety claims against Meta, winning a $375 million jury verdict in March 2026, but that litigation does not rest on an age-verification statute.

On the Attorney General announced that the First Judicial District Court had entered a final judgment against Meta ruling that its platforms constitute a public nuisance in New Mexico. The judgment orders more rigorous age verification for New Mexico users, including additional measures to identify the age of users within the limits of federal law. The Attorney General says the Court stopped short of mandating a hard age-verification requirement.

As of .

Reuse law

New Mexico has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, and no reported state-court decision addressing hot-news misappropriation, snippet reproduction, or the framing or linking of news content.

No bill comparable to California's Journalism Preservation Act or the federal Journalism Competition and Preservation Act was located among New Mexico's 2025 or 2026 legislative enactments or among the state's own catalogued artificial-intelligence bills, none of which reaches news aggregation or platform-publisher payment.

The New Mexico Unfair Practices Act, NMSA sections 57-12-1 to 57-12-26, prohibits unfair or deceptive trade practices in commerce but names no provision reaching reproduction, aggregation, or framing of journalism. Federal copyright law, including 17 U.S.C. Section 107 fair use and the case law already covered in the national document, applies of its own force in New Mexico and is not restated here.

As of .

Case law

  • No current case law for New Mexico AI law
  • No current case law for New Mexico privacy law
  • No current case law for New Mexico scraping law
  • No current case law for New Mexico cybersecurity law
  • No current case law for New Mexico communications law
  • No current case law for New Mexico content moderation law
  • No current case law for New Mexico product and AI liability law
  • No current case law for New Mexico digital accessibility law
  • No current case law for New Mexico age gating law
  • No current case law for New Mexico reuse law

Reporting clocks that run here18 instruments

The instruments whose obligation lines set a deadline for reporting an incident, a vulnerability or a personal-data breach, each deadline read from the sentence that carries it and listed shortest first. The law of New Mexico comes first, then the law of the bodies above it that applies here.

Each flag is one law, and a link to it. Read down the scale: the clocks document's time axis, with the empty stretches shortened so the deadlines sit close. Flags on one line set the same duty at the same deadline, and the laws behind them are named to the right, with what each clock counts from.

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Incident notificationsecurity law
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Incident notificationsecurity law
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Incident notificationsecurity law
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72 hours
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
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Incident notificationsecurity law
5 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
7 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
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Incident notificationsecurity law
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
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Breach notificationprivacy law
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Breach notificationprivacy law
The deadlines above on one time axis, shortest at the top. The axis keeps its order and, between neighbors, its proportion, but a stretch with no deadline on it is shortened, so the hour marks on the left are what say how far apart two stations really are. Beside each action, the laws that set it, what each counts from, and a status where the law is not yet in force. The List tab has the same data in full, with the sentences.

The law of New Mexico

24 hours10 days

Cybersecurity incident reporting order for agencies and political subdivisions

Cybersecurity Incident Reporting, Order No. 2025-01 of the New Mexico Chief Information Security Officer, paragraphs 2 to 4 and 6 to 7security law, in force since

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Within 24 hours of discovering a cybersecurity incident involving the public entity or one of its vendors, notify and consult with the Office of Cybersecurity (Order paragraph 2).

Within 10 days of receiving the Order, designate a point of contact in the form and manner the Office of Cybersecurity specifies, and report any change of that contact within 10 days (Order paragraph 7).

45 days

Data Breach Notification Act

Laws 2017, ch. 36, House Bill 15, Sections 1 to 12 (NMSA 1978, Secs. 57-12C-1 to 57-12C-12)privacy law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify each affected New Mexico resident of a security breach involving their personal identifying information in the most expedient time possible and no later than 45 calendar days after discovery.

Notify the New Mexico Attorney General's office and the major consumer reporting agencies that compile files nationwide of a security breach affecting more than 1,000 New Mexico residents in the most expedient time possible and no later than 45 calendar days, and tell the Attorney General how many residents were notified and send it a copy of the resident notice within 45 calendar days following discovery of the breach (Section 10).

If you maintain or are licensed to possess data you do not own or license, notify the owner or licensee of a security breach in the most expedient time possible and no later than 45 calendar days following discovery of the breach (Section 6).

The law of the United States, which applies in New Mexico

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NRC cyber security event notifications by nuclear power plant licensees

NRC cyber security event notifications, 10 CFR 73.77security law, in force since

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Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center via the Emergency Notification System within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted safety-related or important-to-safety functions, security functions, or emergency preparedness functions (including offsite communications), or that compromised support systems and equipment resulting in adverse impacts to those functions.

Also notify within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted the safety, security, and emergency preparedness functions performed by digital assets described in 10 CFR 73.77(a)(1)(ii).

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within four hours after discovery of a cyberattack that could have caused such an adverse impact, after discovery of a suspected or actual cyberattack initiated by personnel with physical or electronic access to the systems in scope, or after notifying a local, State, or other Federal agency of an event related to your cyber security program that does not otherwise require notification.

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within eight hours after receipt or collection of information regarding observed behavior, activities, or statements that may indicate intelligence gathering or pre-operational planning related to a cyberattack against the systems in scope.

Use the site corrective action program to record vulnerabilities, weaknesses, failures and deficiencies in your cyber security program, and the notifications you make, within twenty-four hours of their discovery.

24 hours72 hours

Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA)

6 U.S.C. 681-681g (CIRCIA)security law, enacted, not yet in force

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Once the final rule takes effect, report a covered cyber incident to the Agency not later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes that the covered cyber incident has occurred.

Once the final rule takes effect, report a ransom payment to the Agency not later than 24 hours after your organization makes the payment, even where the underlying ransomware attack is not itself a covered cyber incident.

Once the final rule takes effect, promptly submit an update to a previously submitted covered cyber incident report whenever substantial new or different information becomes available or a ransom payment is later made, continuing until your organization notifies the Agency that the incident has concluded and been fully mitigated and resolved, and preserve data relevant to the incident or payment under the procedures the final rule establishes.

24 hours5 business days30 days

SEC Regulation SCI: notification of SCI events to the Commission and to members

SEC Regulation SCI SCI event notices, 17 CFR 242.1002(b) and (c)security law, in force since

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Upon any responsible SCI personnel having a reasonable basis to conclude that an SCI event has occurred, begin appropriate corrective action and notify the Commission of the SCI event immediately.

Within 24 hours of that conclusion, submit a written notification to the Commission, made on a good faith, best efforts basis, that describes the SCI event and the systems affected and, to the extent available, your assessment of the market participants potentially affected, the potential impact on the market, and the steps you have taken, are taking or plan to take.

If the SCI event is resolved and the investigation closed within 30 calendar days, submit a final written notification within five business days after resolution. If not, submit an interim written notification within 30 calendar days after the event, and a final one within five business days after resolution and closure.

36 hours

Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers

12 CFR Part 53 (OCC); 12 CFR Part 225, Subpart N (Federal Reserve Board); 12 CFR Part 304, Subpart C (FDIC)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a banking organization, notify your primary federal banking regulator, the OCC, the Federal Reserve Board, or the FDIC, whichever supervises it, about a notification incident, as soon as possible and no later than 36 hours after your organization determines that a notification incident has occurred.

A notification incident is the subset of computer-security incidents that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, your ability to serve customers, a business line, or an operation whose failure would threaten the financial stability of the United States, so a computer-security incident that falls short of that threshold does not by itself start this clock.

If your organization is a bank service provider, notify at least one bank-designated point of contact at each affected banking organization customer as soon as possible after your organization determines that it has experienced a computer-security incident that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, covered services provided to that banking organization for a period of four hours or more.

This duty carries a standard, as soon as possible, rather than a fixed number of hours to notify by, and that disruption threshold is what engages the duty rather than a period to notify within.

72 hours30 days

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026

S. 5576, 119th Congressfrontier-model AI law, proposed

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If you are a developer or provider of a frontier AI model, or an operator of critical infrastructure that uses an AI model to manage industrial control systems or other operational technologies, report any confirmed AI safety incident or AI security incident within 30 days of confirmation, and within 72 hours if the incident poses an imminent threat to national security, critical infrastructure or public safety.

72 hours

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements for Federally Insured Credit Unions

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements, 12 CFR 748.1(c)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a federally insured credit union, notify the NCUA-designated point of contact of a reportable cyber incident by email, telephone, or another method the NCUA prescribes, so that the NCUA receives the notification as soon as possible and no later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes it has experienced a reportable cyber incident.

Where the reportable cyber incident is a disruption of business operations or unauthorized access to sensitive data facilitated through, or caused by, a compromise of a credit union service organization, cloud service provider, or other third-party data hosting provider, or by a supply chain compromise, the NCUA must receive the notification within 72 hours of your organization being notified by the third party if that is sooner.

72 hours30 days

Regulation S-P: incident response program and customer breach notice

17 CFR 248.30(a)(3) to (a)(5)privacy law, in force since

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Send the notice as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days, after becoming aware that unauthorized access to or use of customer information has occurred or is reasonably likely to have occurred, delaying it only for the period the United States Attorney General specifies where the Attorney General determines that notice poses a substantial risk to national security or public safety (17 CFR 248.30(a)(4)(iii)).

Maintain written policies and procedures reasonably designed to require oversight, including through due diligence and monitoring, of service providers, including that a service provider notify you as soon as possible, and no later than 72 hours, after becoming aware of a breach in security resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system it maintains (17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)(i)).

72 hours

SEC Regulation S-P: service provider oversight and 72-hour breach notice to the covered institution

SEC Regulation S-P service provider oversight and notice, 17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)security law, in force

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Make those policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that each service provider takes appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer information, and to notify you as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours after becoming aware that a breach in security has occurred resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system the service provider maintains.

4 business days

SEC Cybersecurity Risk Management, Governance, and Incident Disclosure (Regulation S-K Item 106; Form 8-K Item 1.05)

17 CFR 229.106; 17 CFR 249.308 (Form 8-K Item 1.05)security law, in force since

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If your organization is an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting company, determine, without unreasonable delay after you discover a cybersecurity incident, whether the incident is material, and if it is, file a Form 8-K under Item 1.05 within four business days after you make that determination.

If the information called for in Item 1.05 is not determined or is unavailable when you file, state that in the filing and file an amendment to the Form 8-K within four business days after you determine it or it becomes available.

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FCC CPNI breach notification rule

47 CFR 64.2011privacy law, in force

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After you reasonably determine that a breach of your customers' CPNI has occurred, electronically notify the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the central reporting facility as soon as practicable, and in no event later than seven business days (47 CFR 64.2011(b)).

Do not notify customers or disclose the breach where the relevant investigating agency directs you in writing not to, for an initial period of up to 30 days that the agency may extend (47 CFR 64.2011(b)(3)).

60 days

FTC Health Breach Notification Rule

16 CFR Part 318privacy law, in force since

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If you are a vendor of personal health records (an entity that offers or maintains an electronic record of health information that can draw information from multiple sources and is managed, shared and controlled by or primarily for the individual) or a PHR related entity, notify each affected individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, in plain language and without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 calendar days after you discover a breach of security of unsecured PHR identifiable health information.

Notify prominent media outlets serving a State or jurisdiction, without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach, when the unsecured PHR identifiable health information of 500 or more of its residents is, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach.

If you are a third party service provider, notify the official designated in a written contract by the vendor of personal health records or PHR related entity you serve (or else a senior official of that vendor or entity), without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach; identify each customer of that vendor or entity whose unsecured PHR identifiable health information has been, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach; and obtain acknowledgment that the notice was received.

60 days

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

45 CFR Part 164, Subpart D (Sections 164.400-164.414)privacy law, in force since

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Notify affected individuals without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovering a breach of unsecured protected health information.

For a breach of unsecured protected health information involving more than 500 residents of a State or jurisdiction, notify prominent media outlets serving that State or jurisdiction without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

If you are a business associate, notify the covered entity of a breach of unsecured protected health information without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

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CFTC system safeguards: prompt notice to Commission staff of cyber security incidents and targeted threats

CFTC system safeguards notices, 17 CFR 39.18(g), 38.1051(e) and 37.1401(e)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a derivatives clearing organization, notify staff of the Division of Clearing and Risk promptly of any hardware or software malfunction, security incident, or targeted threat that materially impairs, or creates a significant likelihood of material impairment of, automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, and of any activation of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a designated contract market, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and significant systems malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a swap execution facility, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and material system malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

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Coast Guard Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System: reportable cyber incidents

Coast Guard reportable cyber incident reporting, 33 CFR 101.620(b)(7) and 101.615security law, in force since

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Evidence of sabotage, subversive activity, or an actual or threatened cyber incident involving or endangering any vessel, harbor, port, or waterfront facility must be reported immediately to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (for any cyber incident), and the Captain of the Port, or to their respective representatives.

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