Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act)

Record US-NY-01 · Chapter 699 of the Laws of 2025 (S6953-B/A6453-B), as amended by Chapter 96 of the Laws of 2026 (S8828/A9449)

Issued by: New York State Legislature; signed by Governor Kathy Hochul
Jurisdiction: New York (US)
Level · region: Sub-national · North America
Country: United States
Published / adopted: 2025-12-19
In force: 2027-01-01
Last updated: 2026-03-27
Language: English
Official identifier: Chapter 699 of the Laws of 2025 (S6953-B/A6453-B), as amended by Chapter 96 of the Laws of 2026 (S8828/A9449)

Summary

Requires frontier developers (of foundation models trained with over 10^26 operations) to publish a transparency report before deploying a new or substantially modified model, and large frontier developers (revenue above USD 500 million) to publish and follow a frontier AI framework for managing catastrophic risks, publish risk-assessment summaries and file disclosure statements. Critical safety incidents must be reported within 72 hours, or within 24 hours to an appropriate authority if death or serious injury is imminent. An office in the Department of Financial Services oversees compliance; the Attorney General can seek penalties of up to USD 1 million, or 3 million for later violations.

Safety topics

general-purpose / frontier AItransparency & labellingincident reportingcatastrophic riskaccountability & liability

Status notes

Both houses passed S6953-B (same as A6453-B) on 12 Jun 2025; it was delivered to the Governor on 9 Dec 2025 and signed on 19 Dec 2025 as Chapter 699 of 2025, with approval memo 76, the Governor announcing agreed chapter amendments. The chapter amendment S8828 (same as A9449) passed the Senate on 28 Jan 2026 and the Assembly on 11 Mar 2026 and was signed on 27 Mar 2026 as Chapter 96 of 2026. It repealed and replaced Article 44-B of the General Business Law as first enacted: a revenue test of over USD 500 million replaced the test of over USD 100 million in compute costs, the ban on deploying a frontier model that would create an unreasonable risk of critical harm was dropped, maximum penalties fell from USD 10 million and 30 million to 1 million and 3 million, and the effective date moved from the ninetieth day after enactment to 1 Jan 2027. Large frontier developers must also send the office summaries of catastrophic-risk assessments of internal use every three months and pay assessments to fund it. The office's annual reports begin on 1 Jan 2028. Accredited colleges and universities doing academic research and the Empire AI consortium are exempt, and there is no private right of action. The Governor described the law as building on California's recently adopted framework.

Sources

Open the official source https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6953/amendment/B

Secondary source: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8828

Local copy

Download failed. The official source could not be downloaded: HTTP 403 Forbidden. The secondary source could not be downloaded (HTTP 403 Forbidden). The browser retry also failed (Browser could not load the page: Page.goto: Timeout 45000ms exceeded.). Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:08:44 UTC

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026: nysenate.gov refused the archiver (HTTP 403) on 11, 16 and 17 Oct 2026, so the record now rests on the Assembly's bill pages for A6453 (same as S6953-B) and A9449 (same as S8828) and on the Governor's press release of 19 Dec 2025, stored from nyassembly.gov and governor.ny.gov on 17 Oct 2026. The A6453 page gives the actions of both houses, 'SIGNED CHAP.699' and 'APPROVAL MEMO.76' on 12/19/2025, and the text as signed. The A9449 page gives the actions, including 'SIGNED CHAP.96' on 03/27/2026, and the Assembly print of the chapter amendment with the new Article 44-B and the effective date of 1 Jan 2027; the Senate print S8828 that was signed was not stored, and the page lists the two as the same bill. The release confirms the signature, 72-hour reporting, the oversight office in the Department of Financial Services and the penalties.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 8 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18related: [{"slug": "ca-sb-53", "id": "US-CA-05"}, {"slug": "us-eo-14365", "id": "US-20"}, → [{"slug": "ca-sb-53", "id": "US-CA-05"}, {"slug": "us-eo-14365", "id": "US-20"}, — two-way link added: US-CT-01 link(s) to US-NY-012026-10-18-fix-related-links · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18notes: Passed June 2025 and signed 19 Dec 2025 as Chapter 699 of 2025 (approval memo 76 → Both houses passed S6953-B (same as A6453-B) on 12 Jun 2025; it was delivered to — rewritten from the Assembly pages: passage and delivery dates added, what Chapter 96 changed (the dropped deployment ban added), quarterly internal-use summaries and assessments, exemptions; the sentence on a federal legal challenge, EO 14365 and the FRONTIER Act removed, as it is not about the instrument and no stored file supports it; the Governor's own comparison with California kept as his statement2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Frontier-AI safety law modelled on, but stricter than, California SB 53. Develop → Requires frontier developers (of foundation models trained with over 10^26 opera — rewritten from the stored text of the chapter amendment: the evaluative opening ('modelled on, but stricter than, California SB 53') removed; the transparency report applies to all frontier developers and the frontier AI framework only to large frontier developers; the 24-hour notice goes to an appropriate authority2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

Related records

California SB 53 (TFAIA) California (US) · In force

EO 14365 (state AI law preemption order) United States · In force

FRONTIER Act United States · Draft / proposed

Illinois AI Safety Measures Act (SB 315) Illinois (US) · Adopted, not yet in force

Connecticut Public Act 26-15 (SB 5, AI and online safety) Connecticut (US) · Partially in force

Citation

New York State Legislature; signed by Governor Kathy Hochul. Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act) [Chapter 699 of the Laws of 2025 (S6953-B/A6453-B), as amended by Chapter 96 of the Laws of 2026 (S8828/A9449)]. 2025-12-19. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6953/amendment/B. Status: Adopted, not yet in force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-NY-01.

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