West Virginia

Summary

West Virginia has not enacted any AI-specific law governing bot disclosure, automated decision-making accountability, or artificial intelligence crawler and training-data rules as of mid-2026. The state's primary legislative response has been institutional: House Bill 5690 (2024) created the West Virginia Task Force on Artificial Intelligence within the Office of Technology to study and recommend AI policy, and House Bill 3187 (2025) extended and expanded that task force through July 2027. A proposed 2025 bill (Senate Bill 484) that would have required disclosure of synthetic media in election communications died in the Rules committee without a vote, and a 2026 House bill (HB 4496) requiring disclosure labeling on AI-generated media also failed to advance past committee. General consumer protection law (West Virginia Consumer Credit and Protection Act, W. Va. Code §46A) and federal law including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act apply to deceptive or unauthorized automated activity, but no West Virginia statute specifically addresses AI chatbot disclosure, AI training data, agentic transactions, or algorithmic accountability.