Law / United States / Montana
Right to Compute Act (SB 212, 2025), critical AI infrastructure risk management duty
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In force.
An AI risk obligations rule binding private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- If a deployer of a critical artificial intelligence system controls, in whole or in part, a critical infrastructure facility, develop a risk management policy after deploying the system
- The policy must be reasonable and consider a nationally or internationally recognized AI risk management framework, such as the NIST AI risk management framework
- A risk management plan already prepared to satisfy a federal requirement counts as compliance
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionNo
What it reaches
Obligation class
Governance
What this law does
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The Right to Compute Act declares that the rights to acquire, possess, and protect property and the freedom of expression under the Montana Constitution embody a fundamental right to own and make use of computational resources, including artificial intelligence systems, and that a government action restricting that use must be limited to what is demonstrably necessary and narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest.
The Act's one affirmative duty on a private actor falls on a deployer, an individual, company, or other organization that utilizes an artificial intelligence system. That duty applies when the deployer's system is a critical artificial intelligence system, one designed and deployed to make or be a substantial factor in making a consequential decision, and that system controls a critical infrastructure facility in whole or in part.
That deployer must develop, after deploying the system, a risk management policy that considers the National Institute of Standards and Technology's AI risk management framework, the ISO/IEC 4200 artificial intelligence standard, or another nationally or internationally recognized framework, and a plan already prepared to meet a federal requirement satisfies this duty. The Act preserves existing intellectual property remedies. It states that nothing in it preempts federal law.
It took effect on passage and approval under its own effective-date clause, though the enrolled act text does not print the specific day of approval.
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