Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18, 2026 that directs the state's Government Operations Agency to accelerate implementation timelines for SB 813, which sets up a framework for independent verification organizations to assess AI systems, and AB 1405, which creates a state registry for AI auditors. The agency is also directed, in consultation with the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, to convene national experts to develop recommendations for potential changes to state law. According to the governor's office, the experts are to provide, within two months, a guide for strengthening California's AI safety and security laws. The proposals put to the experts include requiring frontier AI companies to embed a designated independent verification organization onsite in their labs for regular audits and evaluations, requiring that the safety frameworks, transparency reports and risk assessments those companies already file under state law be verified against standards an independent verification organization deems adequate, and advancing a "kill switch" for frontier models whose effectiveness would be verified on an ongoing basis by such an organization. The order also calls for updating the definition of critical safety incidents to cover loss-of-control incidents, citing the Hugging Face attack as an example. These are recommendations for potential changes to state law, not new legal requirements. In its release, the governor's office states that the federal government has done nothing, that no federal law requires AI companies to report dangerous incidents, and that President Donald Trump has rejected calls for new regulations.