# SB 53 Deadline: January 1, 2027

> January 1, 2027: First annual Cal OES report on critical safety incidents, Attorney General whistleblower report and Department of Technology review.

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Updated: 2026-11-08

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# SB 53 deadline, January 1, 2027

On **January 1, 2027**: First annual Cal OES report on critical safety incidents, Attorney General whistleblower report and Department of Technology review of frontier definitions due.

Date
:   Jan 1, 2027

Days away
:   54

Measure
:   SB 53

Where
:   California

## What happens

**January 1, 2027:** First annual Cal OES report on critical safety incidents, Attorney General whistleblower report and Department of Technology review of frontier definitions due.

## The measure

[SB 53](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ca-sb-53/) is in force in California. Developers that train frontier models above 10^26 operations; large frontier developers, with over $500 million in annual revenue, carry the heaviest duties.

## Where to follow it

The [Control Map page for California](https://enterrsi.si/control-map/california/) lists every measure there with its dates and sources, and the [upcoming dates](https://enterrsi.si/control-map/#cm-up-h) list shows what comes next worldwide.

## Sources

1. [SB 53: Artificial intelligence models: large developers](https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb53) CalMatters Digital Democracy
2. [California SB 53: Frontier AI Law Explained](https://casrai.org/guides/california-sb-53-frontier-ai-transparency-act) CASRAI · Sep 19, 2026
3. [OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought](https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-sb-53-california-ai-safety-law-amendments) The Next Web · Aug 24, 2026

The date

Date
:   January 1, 2027

Measure
:   [SB 53](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ca-sb-53/)

Status
:   In force

Related

[SB 53 **Law**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/ca-sb-53/)[Incident disclosure **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/incident-disclosure/)[Whistleblower protection **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/whistleblower-protection/)[Compute threshold **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/compute-threshold/)[Frontier model **Term**](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/frontier-model/)

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