Partially In EffectAI Laws in New York (NY)
NYC Local Law 144 requires annual independent bias audits for automated employment decision tools. Separately, the RAISE Act — signed December 2025, effective January 1, 2027 — imposes safety-protocol, incident-reporting, and oversight duties on large frontier-AI developers.
What NYC Local Law 144 requires
New York has enacted NYC Local Law 144 — automated employment decision tools and RAISE Act — frontier-AI safety (S6953B, signed Dec 2025). NYC Local Law 144 requires annual independent bias audits for automated employment decision tools. Separately, the RAISE Act — signed December 2025, effective January 1, 2027 — imposes safety-protocol, incident-reporting, and oversight duties on large frontier-AI developers. This page explains what the law requires in plain language, who is in scope, the penalty for non-compliance, and what your business needs to do before the In effect (LL144); RAISE Act effective January 1, 2027 deadline.
Who is in scope
The law covers any business in New York that uses algorithmic tools to screen job applications, score interviews, rank candidates, evaluate employee performance, or make promotion and termination decisions, and developers who build AI systems classified as high-risk — typically systems that influence consequential decisions in credit, employment, healthcare, education, housing, or government services — and the companies that deploy them. Company size does not determine whether you are in scope — a startup with ten employees using an off-the-shelf AI hiring tool has the same disclosure obligations as an enterprise running a custom-built model. What matters is whether the AI system makes or substantially informs a decision that affects a New York resident in a consequential way. Notably, the obligation extends to vendors: if your company deploys an AI tool built by a third party, you — as the deployer — are responsible for ensuring it meets New York's requirements, even if you did not build it.
Key compliance requirements
New York's employment AI rules create concrete pre-deployment and ongoing obligations. Before any AI tool enters the hiring or performance-management pipeline, employers must be able to document what data the system uses, how it reaches a decision, and what steps have been taken to detect and mitigate bias. Affected candidates and employees are entitled to notice that AI is involved — that notice must be provided before the AI evaluation takes place, not after an adverse decision has already been issued. Many employment AI statutes also require that a human reviewer be available to consider any appeal of an AI-assisted adverse action, preventing a loop where an algorithm's decision becomes final with no meaningful override path.
New York's risk-assessment framework requires that developers and deployers of high-impact AI systems conduct formal impact assessments before deployment and re-evaluate them when the system changes materially. An impact assessment must document the intended purpose of the system, the data it uses, the populations it affects, known accuracy limitations, and what bias-testing was performed. Deployers must also publish a summary of the assessment that is accessible to consumers and regulators — internal documentation alone is insufficient. Critically, the assessment is not a one-time exercise: New York's law contemplates ongoing monitoring, with a duty to update documentation when performance data or demographic outputs shift.
Penalties for non-compliance
The financial consequences of non-compliance under NYC Local Law 144 are real and enforceable now. New York sets a maximum civil penalty of $500-$1,500 per violation (LL144). Penalties accumulate per violation — meaning a company that has deployed an AI tool to thousands of consumers without required disclosures faces compounding exposure, not a single capped fine. Employment AI violations often trigger parallel exposure: an employer who fails to provide required notice faces state penalties AND increased litigation risk under federal equal-employment law, because documented failure to audit for bias can be used as evidence of disparate-impact intent in private lawsuits.
What to do now
Build your AI inventory first. You cannot comply with New York's requirements if you do not know which systems are in scope. Map every AI or automated decision system your company uses that touches New York residents — including third-party vendor tools integrated into your product.
Audit hiring tools before the deadline. Commission or conduct a bias audit on any resume screener, interview scorer, or performance-management AI. Document the methodology, the demographic breakdown of outcomes, and the steps taken to mitigate any identified disparities.
Implement candidate and employee notice. Update job postings, onboarding materials, and performance-review workflows to include required disclosures. Verify that the notice is delivered before the AI evaluation occurs.
Draft accurate disclosure language. Work with legal counsel to produce disclosure statements that accurately describe what your AI does, what data it uses, and what the consumer can do if they want human review. Vague or boilerplate disclosures will not satisfy New York's requirements.
Build the opt-out pathway. Implement a functioning process for consumers to request human review or opt out of AI-assisted processing. Test it before the deadline — regulators will look for live, working mechanisms, not documented promises.
Complete impact assessments for high-risk systems. Follow the framework in NYC Local Law 144 to produce a written assessment covering intended use, training data, affected populations, accuracy benchmarks, and bias mitigation. Retain the documentation for at least the period specified in the law's record-keeping provisions.
Assign a compliance owner. Designate someone — legal counsel, a privacy officer, or a dedicated AI governance lead — to track regulatory developments, own the audit documentation, and respond if an enforcement inquiry arrives. The compliance deadline is In effect (LL144); RAISE Act effective January 1, 2027. Don't wait until the deadline to start.
New York AI law in the broader regulatory landscape
New York's law does not exist in isolation. The trend across the United States is toward more regulation, not less: at least 20 states enacted or proposed AI-specific legislation in 2025 alone, and federal enforcement agencies — the FTC, EEOC, CFPB, and HHS — have all issued guidance making clear that existing laws apply to AI systems even where no AI-specific statute exists. Companies doing business across state lines must track each state's requirements independently — there is no federal preemption that would allow a company to satisfy New York's law and automatically comply with requirements in Illinois, Colorado, or New York.
Recent AI law developments in New York
Updated August 26, 2026Recent news coverage of AI regulation and policy in New York. Headlines are aggregated automatically; follow each link for the full story.
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AI bills moving through the New York legislature
Updated August 27, 2026AI-related bills currently tracked in the New York legislature, updated automatically from Open States and the state legislature's own official record. Follow each link for the official bill text, sponsors, and status history.
Enacts the "fostering optimal classroom use of screens (FOCUS) act" to limit use of internet enabled and electronic devices and prioritize non-digital teaching methods; prohibits use by younger students; limits and restricts certain uses by older students; requires written policies for opting in for the school issued devices; prohibits social media applications, gaming and AI in school issued devices; requires registration by educational technology providers.
In Senate Committee
Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals.
In Senate Committee
Prohibits humanoid robots and AI systems from being used in schools; provides limited exceptions; provides for student privacy protections; makes related provisions.
In Assembly Committee
Requires third party verification of compliance with transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence models; requires publication of such compliance reports.
In Assembly Committee
Enacts the "options for search listing act" to require the optional use of artificial intelligence when using a search engine.
In Assembly Committee
Provides that each school district, charter school, and board of cooperative educational services shall adopt and implement a written policy governing the use of humanoid robots in schools and that such policy shall prohibit the use of an artificial intelligence-enabled humanoid robot in an instructional capacity; defines terms.
In Senate Committee
Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals.
In Senate Committee
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI.
Passed Assembly
Regulates the use of artificial intelligence in the provision of therapy or psychotherapy services by prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to assist in providing supplementary support where the session is recorded or transcribed unless the patient is informed of the specific purpose of such use and consents of such use; establishes penalties for violations of such provisions; excludes religious counseling, peer-support, and self-help materials and educational resources from such provisions.
In Senate Committee
Enacts the "fair cart act"; establishes safeguards against deceptive algorithmic pricing practices; outlines permitted pricing practices and safe harbors; requires consumer pricing transparency; provides for compliance guidance and enforcement and educational outreach.
In Assembly Committee
Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI.
Assembly Floor Calendar
Requires certification of filings produced using generative artificial intelligence; requires the brief of an appellant to contain a disclosure of the use of generative artificial intelligence in the drafting of the brief and certification that the content therein was reviewed and verified by a human.
In Senate Committee
Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features.
Passed Assembly
Requires covered businesses to annually report to the department of labor regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use for the previous year; requires the department of labor to file an annual report on the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use in the state; establishes penalties for covered business that fail to submit such reports.
Passed Senate
Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors; defines terms; specifies what are considered unsafe features.
Assembly Floor Calendar
Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, including a hi…
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Establishes the artificial intelligence training data transparency act requiring developers of generative artificial intelligence models or services to post on the developer's website information regarding the data used by the developer to train the generative artificial intelligence model or service, including a high-level summary of the datasets used in the development of such system or service.
Passed Senate
Establishes the biometric identifier privacy act; requires private entities in possession of biometric identifiers or biometric information to develop a written policy establishing a retention schedule and guidelines for permanently destroying biometric identifiers and biometric information when the initial purpose for collecting or obtaining such identifiers or information has been satisfied or within three years of the individual's last interaction with the private entity, whichever occurs first.
Passed Senate
Requires the division of criminal justice services to promulgate a written protocol for the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
Assembly Floor Calendar
Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
Passed Senate
Prohibits the manufacture, exchange, distribution and sale of chatbot toys in this state.
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Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals.
Assembly Floor Calendar
Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
In Assembly Committee
Prohibits the use of biometric identifying technology in schools for any reason other than certain specified purposes.
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Restricts the use by an employer or an employment agency of electronic monitoring or an automated employment decision tool to screen a candidate or employee for an employment decision unless such tool has been the subject of an impact assessment within the last year; requires notice to employment candidates of the use of such tools; provides remedies for violations.
Assembly Floor Calendar
Updates the definition of cyberbullying in the dignity for all students act to include intentionally using artificial intelligence to mimic or alter a person's likeness or voice without their consent.
In Assembly Committee
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Requires the division of criminal justice services to promulgate a written protocol for the regulation of the use of artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in criminal investigations.
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Restricts the use by an employer or an employment agency of electronic monitoring or an automated employment decision tool to screen a candidate or employee for an employment decision unless such tool has been the subject of an impact assessment within the last year; requires notice to employment candidates of the u…
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Relates to improving Medicaid accountability; verifies Medicaid enrollment data; audits certain Medicaid program areas; creates managed care payment safeguards; establishes a biometric verification pilot program.
In Committee Assembly
Requires legislative members to verify attendance on legislative session days via an identification card system and facial recognition technology.
In Committee Assembly
Relates to improving Medicaid accountability; verifies Medicaid enrollment data; audits certain Medicaid program areas; creates managed care payment safeguards; establishes a biometric verification pilot program.
In Committee Senate
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; relates to the waterfront commission act; makes amendments to change "applicant" to "licensee or registrant" (Part A); provides for mass transportation payments to the Central New York Regional Transportation District; adds Cortland county to such district (Part B); relates to extending the authorization for a pre-licensing course internet program (Part C); increases the value of a motor vehicle considered abandoned which can become property of the local authority the vehicle is abandoned in (Part D); extends provisions of law relating to certain tax increment financing provisions (Part I); relates to certain provisions regarding labor disputes involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Part J); relates to the acquisitions or transfers of property for certain transit projects; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part K); relates to funding for net paratransit operating expenses for the city of New York and the metropolitan transportation authority and makes permanent certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part L); provides funding for the metropolitan transportation authority 2025-2029 capital program (Part M); establishes a demonstration program on certain covered locations to enforce vehicle weight restriction on such interstate by means of mobile or stationary weigh in motion systems (Part N); authorizes a photo monitoring program for the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority and New York state bridge authority; extends provisions relating to certain notices of liability (Part Q); relates to the effectiveness of the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part S); authorizes the Olympic regional development authority to enter into agreements for membership of one or more of its ski venues in reciprocal ski pass programs where such members are required to guarantee contractual indemnity up to a capped amount (Part T); regulates artificial intelligence companion models; establishes a suicide prevention fund (Part U); relates to refund policies for online retailers (Part V); enhances disclosure requirements for automatic renewals (Part W); requires disclosure of algorithmically set prices for goods and services (Part X); relates to the regulation of buy-now-pay-later lenders; requires such lenders to be licensed or authorized; establishes prohibited acts, limitations on loans, and consumer protections (Part Y); establishes reporting requirements for pharmacy benefit managers about the rebate contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers (Part Z); provides for rate increases for hire motor vehicle insurance (Part CC); extends the authority of the New York state urban development to administer the empire state economic development fund (Part EE); extends the power of the New York state urban development corporation to make loans to 07/01/2026 (Part FF); extends the authority of the dormitory authority to enter into certain design and construction management agreements (Part GG); expands certain provisions of the state finance law and the New York state infrastructure trust fund; directs a policy study analyzing ways to improve the effectiveness of the minority and women-owned business enterprise program (Part KK); increases the cap on the amount of money authorized to be on deposit pursuant to the excelsior linked deposit program at any given time (Part LL); relates to purchasing thresholds for minority- or women-owned businesses or service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (Part MM); authorizes the New York convention center operating corporation to establish a subsidiary for the purposes of forming a pure captive insurance company (Part NN); extends the waste tire management fee until December 31, 2027; requires notice of the waste tire management and recycling program to be provided to customers; removes the exclusion for mail order sales (Part PP); extends provisions of the deer hunting program to 2028 (Part QQ); relates to financial responsibility, recovery of response costs and natural resource damages, and abatement actions relating to disposal of inactive hazardous waste (Part RR); relates to the recall of a class B firefighting foam; prohibits the sale or distribution of firefighting personal protective equipment that contains intentionally added PFAS; directs the department of environmental conservation to make a recommendation to the legislature on whether to postpone the effectiveness of such provisions (Part SS); exempts conveyances of real property for open space, parks, or historic preservation purposes to any not-for-profit corporation operated for conservation, environmental, parks or historic preservation purposes (Part TT); authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to finance a portion of its research, development and demonstration, policy and planning, Fuel NY program, climate change related expenses of the department of environmental conservation from an assessment on gas and electric corporations (Part VV); relates to utility and cable television assessments that provide funds to the department of health from cable television assessment revenues and to the department of agriculture and markets, department of state, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, and the department of environmental conservation from utility assessment revenues; requires accountings be submitted of such funds (Part XX); increases and redirects civil penalties for failing to comply with the department of public service's prescribed rules and regulations established for the protection of underground facilities; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to establishing the underground facilities safety training account (Part YY); authorizes the department of taxation and finance to disclose certain information to the department of environmental conservation or the New York state energy research and development authority for the purpose of implementing the New York state climate leadership and community protection act (Part ZZ); establishes a commission to replace the statue of Robert R. Livingston in the National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol with a statue of Harriet Tubman; provides that such commission shall consist of the governor or a designee, the temporary president of the senate or a designee, the speaker of the assembly or a designee, the executive director of the council on the arts or a designee, and the commissioner of the office of general services or a designee (Part BBB); extends certain rebates to municipalities for clean vehicle projects (Part CCC); relates to appointments to the cannabis board, removes provisions of law deeming a person acting as chairperson of the cannabis control board as a state officer; relates to agreements of such board with the New York state Indian nations and tribes (Part DDD); relates to a special license fee for a licensee allowed to engage in the cultivation, processing, distribution and retail of both medical cannabis and adult use cannabis; makes a conforming technical change; and provides for the repeal of certain provisions of the cannabis law (Part EEE).
Signed By Governor
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; extends provisions of law relating to criminal justice including the psychological testing of candidates, expanding the geographic area of employment of certain police officers, prisoner furloughs in certain cases and the crime of absconding therefrom, correctional facilities, incarcerated individual work release, furlough and leave, certain provisions which impact upon expenditure of certain appropriations made by chapter 50 of the laws of 1994 enacting the state operations budget, taxes, surcharges, fees and funding, prison and jail housing and alternatives to detention and incarceration programs, taxes, expiration of the mandatory surcharge and victim assistance fee, the ignition interlock device program, the merit provisions, prisoner litigation reform and the incarcerated individual filing fee provisions of the civil practice law and rules and general filing fee provision and incarcerated individual property claims exhaustion requirement of the court of claims act of such chapter, the family protection and domestic violence intervention act of 1994, certain provisions requiring the arrest of certain persons engaged in family violence, the use of closed-circuit television and other protective measures for certain child witnesses, the counties, the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, limiting the closing of certain correctional facilities, the custody by the department of correctional services of incarcerated individual serving definite sentences, custody of federal prisoners, the closing of certain correctional facilities, military funds of the organized militia, providing for community treatment facilities and establishing the crime of absconding from the community treatment facility; relates to the pre-criminal proceeding settlements in the city of New York (Part A); expands eligibility for who may hold correction and police officer positions (Part C); expands support services for victims of financial abuse and homicide (Part G); expands protections and services to survivors of sexual assault for itemized charges related to exams for such survivors (Part H); improves access to public assistance for survivors of gender-based violence; repeals provisions relating thereto (Part I); requires certain employers to implement a model gender-based violence and the workplace policy (Part J); prohibits artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material (Part L); extends provisions of law relating to liquidator's permits and temporary retail permits (Part Q); increases the bond limit for the New York city transitional finance authority (Part R); modifies the industrial and commercial abatement program (Part S); extends the civil service examination fee waiver for certain persons (Part V); provides for an optional payment election for certain employees (Part W); authorizes construction manager as constructor contracts as an alternative delivery method for authorized projects; defines construction manager as constructor contracts (Part Y); allows certain residents or fellows to render medical care in cases of workers' compensation injuries (Part AA); provides for temporary payment of compensation for medical treatment and care, including prescription drugs (Part CC); establishes a body-worn cameras program within the department of corrections and community supervision to increase accountability (Part GG); relates to the functions, powers and duties of the state commission on correction (Part HH); extends the time the New York State community commission on reparations remedies has to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature and the governor (Part JJ); establishes the "Oak Orchard wastewater project design-build act" for the wastewater treatment plant in the town of Clay, county of Onondaga (Part KK); increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system (Part LL); establishes the New York state office of gun violence prevention (Part MM); provides for ten additional judges for the New York city civil court and five additional judges for the court of claims (Part NN); relates to public campaign financing; changes certain thresholds and procedures; repeals certain provisions of chapter 58 of 2020 relating to severability (Part OO); delays implementing certain restrictions on outside earned income by members of the legislature until January 1, 2027 (Part PP); requires that candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor are designated jointly; provides that ballots shall reflect that that offices of governor and lieutenant governor are voted for jointly (Part QQ); relates to civil enforcement actions initiated by the attorney-general (Part RR); restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers (Part SS); establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs (Part TT); removes eligibility or receipt of primary social security disability benefits as a condition for ordinary disability retirement for New York city enhanced plan members in active service who are not eligible for a normal retirement benefit and have completed five years or more of service (Part UU); extends the retiree earnings limitation waiver for school employees until June 30, 2027 (Part VV); authorizes courts to dispense with the personal appearance of a party or the defendant and conduct such appearance electronically; repeals provisions relating to appearances in court; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part WW); relates to promotions of police detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants for retirement purposes (Part XX); establishes alternative twenty and twenty-five year plans for certain law enforcement members or officers; provides for accidental disability retirement allowance for certain members (Part YY); lowers the minimum hiring age for correction officers to eighteen (Part ZZ); extends provisions related to the operation and administration of the legislature (Part AAA); relates to authorizing the department of corrections and community supervision to close up to three correctional facilities in the 2025--2026 state fiscal year; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part BBB).
Signed By Governor
Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development and environmental conservation budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; relates to the waterfront commission act; makes amendments to change "applicant" to "licensee or registrant" (Part A); provides for mass transportation payments to the Central New York Regional Transportation District; adds Cortland county to such district (Part B); relates to extending the authorization for a pre-licensing course internet program (Part C); increases the value of a motor vehicle considered abandoned which can become property of the local authority the vehicle is abandoned in (Part D); extends provisions of law relating to certain tax increment financing provisions (Part I); relates to certain provisions regarding labor disputes involving the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Part J); relates to the acquisitions or transfers of property for certain transit projects; extends the effectiveness of certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part K); relates to funding for net paratransit operating expenses for the city of New York and the metropolitan transportation authority and makes permanent certain provisions of law relating thereto (Part L); provides funding for the metropolitan transportation authority 2025-2029 capital program (Part M); establishes a demonstration program on certain covered locations to enforce vehicle weight restriction on such interstate by means of mobile or stationary weigh in motion systems (Part N); authorizes a photo monitoring program for the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority and New York state bridge authority; extends provisions relating to certain notices of liability (Part Q); relates to the effectiveness of the New York state health insurance continuation assistance demonstration project (Part S); authorizes the Olympic regional development authority to enter into agreements for membership of one or more of its ski venues in reciprocal ski pass programs where such members are required to guarantee contractual indemnity up to a capped amount (Part T); regulates artificial intelligence companion models; establishes a suicide prevention fund (Part U); relates to refund policies for online retailers (Part V); enhances disclosure requirements for automatic renewals (Part W); requires disclosure of algorithmically set prices for goods and services (Part X); relates to the regulation of buy-now-pay-later lenders; requires such lenders to be licensed or authorized; establishes prohibited acts, limitations on loans, and consumer protections (Part Y); establishes reporting requirements for pharmacy benefit managers about the rebate contracts between pharmacy benefit managers and drug manufacturers (Part Z); provides for rate increases for hire motor vehicle insurance (Part CC); extends the authority of the New York state urban development to administer the empire state economic development fund (Part EE); extends the power of the New York state urban development corporation to make loans to 07/01/2026 (Part FF); extends the authority of the dormitory authority to enter into certain design and construction management agreements (Part GG); expands certain provisions of the state finance law and the New York state infrastructure trust fund; directs a policy study analyzing ways to improve the effectiveness of the minority and women-owned business enterprise program (Part KK); increases the cap on the amount of money authorized to be on deposit pursuant to the excelsior linked deposit program at any given time (Part LL); relates to purchasing thresholds for minority- or women-owned businesses or service-disabled veteran-owned businesses (Part MM); authorizes the New York convention center operating corporation to establish a subsidiary for the purposes of forming a pure captive insurance company (Part NN); extends the waste tire management fee until December 31, 2027; requires notice of the waste tire management and recycling program to be provided to customers; removes the exclusion for mail order sales (Part PP); extends provisions of the deer hunting program to 2028 (Part QQ); relates to financial responsibility, recovery of response costs and natural resource damages, and abatement actions relating to disposal of inactive hazardous waste (Part RR); relates to the recall of a class B firefighting foam; prohibits the sale or distribution of firefighting personal protective equipment that contains intentionally added PFAS; directs the department of environmental conservation to make a recommendation to the legislature on whether to postpone the effectiveness of such provisions (Part SS); exempts conveyances of real property for open space, parks, or historic preservation purposes to any not-for-profit corporation operated for conservation, environmental, parks or historic preservation purposes (Part TT); authorizes the New York state energy research and development authority to finance a portion of its research, development and demonstration, policy and planning, Fuel NY program, climate change related expenses of the department of environmental conservation from an assessment on gas and electric corporations (Part VV); relates to utility and cable television assessments that provide funds to the department of health from cable television assessment revenues and to the department of agriculture and markets, department of state, the office of parks, recreation and historic preservation, and the department of environmental conservation from utility assessment revenues; requires accountings be submitted of such funds (Part XX); increases and redirects civil penalties for failing to comply with the department of public service's prescribed rules and regulations established for the protection of underground facilities; amends the effectiveness of certain provisions relating to establishing the underground facilities safety training account (Part YY); authorizes the department of taxation and finance to disclose certain information to the department of environmental conservation or the New York state energy research and development authority for the purpose of implementing the New York state climate leadership and community protection act (Part ZZ); establishes a commission to replace the statue of Robert R. Livingston in the National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol with a statue of Harriet Tubman; provides that such commission shall consist of the governor or a designee, the temporary president of the senate or a designee, the speaker of the assembly or a designee, the executive director of the council on the arts or a designee, and the commissioner of the office of general services or a designee (Part BBB); extends certain rebates to municipalities for clean vehicle projects (Part CCC); relates to appointments to the cannabis board, removes provisions of law deeming a person acting as chairperson of the cannabis control board as a state officer; relates to agreements of such board with the New York state Indian nations and tribes (Part DDD); relates to a special license fee for a licensee allowed to engage in the cultivation, processing, distribution and retail of both medical cannabis and adult use cannabis; makes a conforming technical change; and provides for the repeal of certain provisions of the cannabis law (Part EEE).
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Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the state public protection and general government budget for the 2025-2026 state fiscal year; extends provisions of law relating to criminal justice including the psychological testing of candidates, expanding the geographic area of employment of certain police officers, prisoner furloughs in certain cases and the crime of absconding therefrom, correctional facilities, incarcerated individual work release, furlough and leave, certain provisions which impact upon expenditure of certain appropriations made by chapter 50 of the laws of 1994 enacting the state operations budget, taxes, surcharges, fees and funding, prison and jail housing and alternatives to detention and incarceration programs, taxes, expiration of the mandatory surcharge and victim assistance fee, the ignition interlock device program, the merit provisions, prisoner litigation reform and the incarcerated individual filing fee provisions of the civil practice law and rules and general filing fee provision and incarcerated individual property claims exhaustion requirement of the court of claims act of such chapter, the family protection and domestic violence intervention act of 1994, certain provisions requiring the arrest of certain persons engaged in family violence, the use of closed-circuit television and other protective measures for certain child witnesses, the counties, the interstate compact for adult offender supervision, limiting the closing of certain correctional facilities, the custody by the department of correctional services of incarcerated individual serving definite sentences, custody of federal prisoners, the closing of certain correctional facilities, military funds of the organized militia, providing for community treatment facilities and establishing the crime of absconding from the community treatment facility; relates to the pre-criminal proceeding settlements in the city of New York (Part A); expands eligibility for who may hold correction and police officer positions (Part C); expands support services for victims of financial abuse and homicide (Part G); expands protections and services to survivors of sexual assault for itemized charges related to exams for such survivors (Part H); improves access to public assistance for survivors of gender-based violence; repeals provisions relating thereto (Part I); requires certain employers to implement a model gender-based violence and the workplace policy (Part J); prohibits artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material (Part L); extends provisions of law relating to liquidator's permits and temporary retail permits (Part Q); increases the bond limit for the New York city transitional finance authority (Part R); modifies the industrial and commercial abatement program (Part S); extends the civil service examination fee waiver for certain persons (Part V); provides for an optional payment election for certain employees (Part W); authorizes construction manager as constructor contracts as an alternative delivery method for authorized projects; defines construction manager as constructor contracts (Part Y); allows certain residents or fellows to render medical care in cases of workers' compensation injuries (Part AA); provides for temporary payment of compensation for medical treatment and care, including prescription drugs (Part CC); establishes a body-worn cameras program within the department of corrections and community supervision to increase accountability (Part GG); relates to the functions, powers and duties of the state commission on correction (Part HH); extends the time the New York State community commission on reparations remedies has to submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the legislature and the governor (Part JJ); establishes the "Oak Orchard wastewater project design-build act" for the wastewater treatment plant in the town of Clay, county of Onondaga (Part KK); increases the amount of allowance that trial and grand jurors are entitled to in each court of the unified court system (Part LL); establishes the New York state office of gun violence prevention (Part MM); provides for ten additional judges for the New York city civil court and five additional judges for the court of claims (Part NN); relates to public campaign financing; changes certain thresholds and procedures; repeals certain provisions of chapter 58 of 2020 relating to severability (Part OO); delays implementing certain restrictions on outside earned income by members of the legislature until January 1, 2027 (Part PP); requires that candidates for the offices of governor and lieutenant governor are designated jointly; provides that ballots shall reflect that that offices of governor and lieutenant governor are voted for jointly (Part QQ); relates to civil enforcement actions initiated by the attorney-general (Part RR); restores 20 year service retirement for New York city police officers (Part SS); establishes a twenty-five year retirement plan for firefighters employed by the division of military and naval affairs (Part TT); removes eligibility or receipt of primary social security disability benefits as a condition for ordinary disability retirement for New York city enhanced plan members in active service who are not eligible for a normal retirement benefit and have completed five years or more of service (Part UU); extends the retiree earnings limitation waiver for school employees until June 30, 2027 (Part VV); authorizes courts to dispense with the personal appearance of a party or the defendant and conduct such appearance electronically; repeals provisions relating to appearances in court; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part WW); relates to promotions of police detectives, sergeants, and lieutenants for retirement purposes (Part XX); establishes alternative twenty and twenty-five year plans for certain law enforcement members or officers; provides for accidental disability retirement allowance for certain members (Part YY); lowers the minimum hiring age for correction officers to eighteen (Part ZZ); extends provisions related to the operation and administration of the legislature (Part AAA); relates to authorizing the department of corrections and community supervision to close up to three correctional facilities in the 2025--2026 state fiscal year; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part BBB).
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