New York S3008-C
From State AI laws: enacted, with proof: Which US states have enacted laws about AI systems, when do they start, who enforces them, and what is the penalty?
State: New York
The state whose legislature passed the law.
The People of the State of New York
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A3008C. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Law: Article 47 Artificial Intelligence Companion Models
The act's name, or its bill and chapter, as the state's own text gives it.
ARTICLE 47 Artificial Intelligence Companion Models
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260915143929/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1701. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Subject: AI companion
A short label, in the text's own words, for what the law regulates.
"AI companion" means a system using artificial intelligence
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260911183428/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1700. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Signed: May 09, 2025
The date the governor signed, as the official record writes it. Dates are left in the form the source uses.
May 09, 2025 signed chap.58
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260201014939/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S3008/amendment/C. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Takes effect: November 5th, 2025
When the law says its duties begin, in its own words. Some laws start in stages, and the quote shows which duty the date belongs to. Blank if the text gives no date and no official page states one.
Effective November 5th , 2025, companies providing companion AI bots must
Source: https://www.governor.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2025-11/Companion_AI_Letter.pdf. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Applies to: any person, partnership, association, firm, or business entity
Who has duties, in the law's own words. A law with several parts shows the part named in its quote.
"Operator" means any person, partnership, association, firm, or business entity, or any member, affiliate, subsidiary or beneficial owner of any partnership, association, firm, or business entity who operates for or provides an AI companion to a user
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260911183428/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1700. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Enforced by: the attorney general
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Whenever the attorney general shall believe from evidence satisfactory to them that an operator has engaged in
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124165044/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1703. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Maximum penalty: fifteen thousand dollars per day
The highest civil penalty stated, in the law's words. Blank if the text names no amount. Damages in a private suit and penalties set by another act don't count.
may seek civil penalties of up to fifteen thousand dollars per day
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20251124165044/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/GBS/1703. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Private right of action: Not stated
Yes or no only where the text says so plainly. Blank otherwise, including where a law just points to a consumer protection act.
No source we could use stated this. A blank never means no.
Latest change: Not stated
The newest amendment, delay, repeal or replacement found in an official source. Blank with the places we looked if none was found, which doesn't prove there is none.
No source we could use stated this. A blank never means no.