# Katie Hester
Public lawmaker profile for the Negotiate The Future policy tracker.
Profile URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/lawmakers/20956
Party: D
Role: Sen
District: SD-009
States: MD
Tracked bills: 13
Latest activity: 2026-03-26
Summary: Katie Hester is a tracked D Sen in MD with 13 public bills. Focus areas include 12 AI, 2 Privacy bills. Latest tracked bill: SB8 Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations.
Machine-readable companions:
https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/lawmakers/profiles/20956/txt
https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/lawmakers/profiles/20956/json
Source links:
- Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Katie_Hester
- Vote Smart: https://votesmart.org/candidate/178442/bio
- FollowTheMoney: https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=44432998

## Tracked bills (13)
### SB8 — Criminal Law - Identity Fraud - Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2026/SB8
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2026
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-03-26
Text available: yes

### SB597 — Higher Education - Maryland Artificial Intelligence Partnership
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2026/SB597
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2026
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-03-26
Text available: yes

### SB141 — Election Law - Election Misinformation, Election Disinformation, and Deepfakes
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2026/SB141
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2026
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-03-24
Text available: yes

### SB720 — Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines, Professional Development, and Collaborative (Artificial Intelligence Ready Schools Act)
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2026/SB720
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2026
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-03-23
Text available: yes

### SB655 — Courts - Artificial Intelligence Evidence Clinic Pilot Program - Establishment
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2025/SB655
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2025
Status: Vetoed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-05-16
Text available: yes

### SB906 — Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines, Professional Development, and Task Force
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2025/SB906
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-03-04
Text available: yes

### SB704 — State Department of Education and Department of Information Technology - Evaluation on Artificial Intelligence in Public Schools
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2025/SB704
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-02-19
Text available: yes

### SB936 — Consumer Protection - High-Risk Artificial Intelligence - Developer and Deployer Requirements
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2025/SB936
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-02-06
Text available: yes

### SB905 — Criminal Law – Identity Fraud – Artificial Intelligence and Deepfake Representations
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2025/SB905
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-02-04
Text available: yes

### SB818 — Information Technology - Artificial Intelligence - Policies and Procedures (Artificial Intelligence Governance Act of 2024)
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2024/SB818
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2024
Status: Passed
Categories: Privacy, AI
Updated: 2024-05-09
Text available: yes

### SB978 — Election Law - Synthetic Media - Disclosure and Regulation
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2024/SB978
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2024
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2024-03-19
Text available: yes

### SB979 — Education - Artificial Intelligence - Guidelines and Pilot Program
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2024/SB979
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2024
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2024-02-08
Text available: yes

### SB325 — Student Data Privacy - Protections, Digital Tools, and Student Data Privacy Council
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/MD/2022/SB325
Jurisdiction: MD
Session year: 2022
Status: Passed
Categories: Privacy
Updated: 2022-04-21
Text available: yes