# New York S 8828: Relates to transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence models New York S 8828, Relates to transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence models, is a 2025-2026 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Andrew Gounardes (Democratic); status signed, last action 2026-03-27 (SIGNED CHAP.96) (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-S8828-2025 - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: New York S 8828 - State: New York - Session: 2025-2026 Regular Session - Title: Relates to transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence models - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2026-01-08 - Last action: 2026-03-27, SIGNED CHAP.96 - Sponsor: Andrew Gounardes (Democratic) - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: RULES, WAYS AND MEANS - Touches household money: no - Roll calls: 3 (217 yes, 3 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 8 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - AI developers face fines for violations: cost, medium. The Attorney General can sue large frontier developers for listed safety and transparency violations. These include missing required documents, prohibited statements, unreported incidents, and failure to follow their own safety plans. Penalties can reach $1 million for a first violation and $3 mill… - Large AI developers file and pay: cost, low. Large frontier developers must file current disclosures and pay their required share before developing, deploying, or operating covered models in New York. Filings include business names, the main address, every New York office address, ownership details, and three disclosure contacts. Private or c… - AI developers face fast incident deadlines: mixed, low. New York's financial services office must provide an incident-reporting channel for frontier developers and the public. Reports give the incident date, description, why it qualifies, and whether it involved internal model use. Critical incidents include stolen or altered model weights, severe-risk… - AI law limits private lawsuit rights: mixed, low. Individuals and organizations cannot use this law itself as the basis for a private lawsuit over violations. Other legal duties still apply, and rights and remedies under other laws remain available. A drop in the value of an ownership stake does not count as property damage or loss under this law.… - AI releases require truthful public reports: mixed, low. Frontier developers must publish reports before or when they deploy new or substantially changed models. Reports list release dates, supported languages and output types, intended uses, limits, and developer contacts. Large developers must also summarize severe-risk assessments, results, outside ev… - Large AI developers must follow safety plans: mixed, low. Large frontier AI developers must write, publish, carry out, and follow safety plans. Plans must cover severe-risk reviews, deployment choices, outside assessments, cybersecurity, incident response, oversight, and internal model use. Covered risks include expert help creating weapons, unsupervised… - New York sets powerful AI coverage: mixed, low. The law sets January 1, 2027, as its main effective date, subject to coordination with related 2025 legislation. It covers frontier AI models developed, deployed, or operating partly or fully in New York. These are general-purpose models trained using more than 10^26 floating-point operations, incl… - State reviews AI risks with confidentiality: mixed, low. Large frontier developers must send summaries of internal-use severe-risk assessments every three months, unless another reasonable schedule is agreed in writing. The office must provide confidential submissions and take reasonable steps to limit access. These assessments and critical incident repo… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Andrew Gounardes (Democratic), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026-03-11 | House | Assembly floor vote | pass | 140 | 2 | | | 2026-01-28 | Senate | FLOOR Vote | pass | 58 | 1 | | | 2026-01-20 | committee | Rules Committee Vote | pass | 19 | 0 | | ## Actions (11) - 2026-03-27: SIGNED CHAP.96 (Senate) - 2026-03-20: DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR (Senate) - 2026-03-11: RETURNED TO SENATE (House) - 2026-03-11: PASSED ASSEMBLY (House) - 2026-02-25: ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.85 (House) - 2026-02-25: SUBSTITUTED FOR A9449 (House) - 2026-01-28: REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS (House) - 2026-01-28: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY (Senate) - 2026-01-28: PASSED SENATE (Senate) - 2026-01-20: ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.94 (Senate) - 2026-01-08: REFERRED TO RULES (Senate) ## Bill text - Original, 2026-01-08: [PDF](https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828) ## Related bills - S 10643: Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board; repealer (signed) - S 9051: Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are considered unsafe for minors (signed) - A 5175: Requires certain security features and warning labels on baby monitors (signed) - A 11443: Relates to commercial food fish licenses (signed) - A 10343: Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extending effectiveness (signed) - A 10052: Extends the effectiveness of the authority of the town of Red Hook to impose real estate transfer taxes and to deposit revenue from such taxes into a community… (signed) ## Sources - [Original (PDF)](https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828) ## Related - [S 10643: Relates to labor peace agreements and the cannabis industry wage board; repealer](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-S10643-2025) - [S 9051: Prohibits artificial intelligence companions from using features which are cons…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-S9051-2025) - [A 5175: Requires certain security features and warning labels on baby monitors](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-A5175-2025) - [A 11443: Relates to commercial food fish licenses](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-A11443-2025) - [A 10343: Relates to fees and expenses in unemployment insurance proceedings; extending e…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-A10343-2025) - [A 10052: Extends the effectiveness of the authority of the town of Red Hook to impose re…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-A10052-2025) - [New York bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/new-york/bills) - [New York state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/new-york) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/NY-S8828-2025 (as of 2026-10-19).