New York S6953-B
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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/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Law: Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act
The act's name, or its bill and chapter, as the state's own text gives it.
ARTICLE 44-B 28 RESPONSIBLE AI SAFETY AND EDUCATION (RAISE) ACT
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Subject: artificial intelligence frontier models
A short label, in the text's own words, for what the law regulates.
transparency and safety requirements for developers of artificial intelligence frontier models
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Signed: Dec 19, 2025
The date the governor signed, as the official record writes it. Dates are left in the form the source uses.
Dec 19, 2025 approval memo.76 signed chap.699
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20261017081017/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6953/amendment/B. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Takes effect: January 1, 2027
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This act shall take effect [on the ninetieth day after it shall 32 ] .have become a law January 1, 2027
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Applies to: large frontier developer: annual gross revenues in excess of five hundred million dollars
Who has duties, in the law's own words. A law with several parts shows the part named in its quote.
"Large frontier developer" means a frontier developer that togeth- 54 er with its affiliates collectively had annual gross revenues in excess 55 of five hundred million dollars
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Enforced by: the attorney general
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The attorney general may bring a civil action 8 to recover a civil penalty
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Maximum penalty: three million dollars per subsequent violation
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.
in an amount not to exceed three 10 million dollars per subsequent violation
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Private right of action: No
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Nothing in this article shall be construed to establish, authorize 18 or create a private right of action
Source: https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.
Latest change: Mar 27, 2026 signed chap.96
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.
Mar 27, 2026 signed chap.96
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20261018224610/https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8828. Read 2026-11-01. Checked by a second reader.