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California's IVO law designates auditors. It does not require an audit.
SB 813 creates a Government Operations Agency designation program for Independent Verification Organizations, with agency deadlines through 1 January 2028. Section 8898.4 expressly does not require any developer, deployer, or operator to engage an IVO or undergo a covered AI audit.
California SB 53 is in force: frontier labs must publish an AI framework
Chapter 138, effective 1 January 2026. Large frontier developers owe a public frontier AI framework and a transparency report at model deploy. The statutory compute cutoff is not restated from secondary trackers.