New York FAIR News Act (Fundamental Artificial Intelligence Requirements in News Act, S.8451-B/A.8962-B)

Properties

jurisdiction: US, New York
level: state
domain: transparency
status: proposed
scope: Requires news media organizations providing news, weather, traffic, sports, or entertainment reports (print, web, television, radio, podcast, or satellite content) that reach a New York audience to conspicuously disclose when published content was substantially created by generative AI, and includes safeguards intended to protect journalists' confidential sources and materials from being accessed by AI systems.
obligations: Any news media content published, broadcast, or otherwise disseminated or accessible within New York that was substantially composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI must conspicuously imprint or verbally orate a disclosure that the content was substantially created by generative AI, subject to an exception for content that would otherwise be copyright-eligible. Would take effect on the sixtieth day after it becomes law, if signed.
penalties: Bill text (Section 1803) sets a civil penalty of $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 for each subsequent offense, enforceable by the New York Attorney General through court injunction; not yet in force pending gubernatorial action.
appliesTo: News media organizations operating in or reaching New York audiences that publish AI-generated news content
officialUrl: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8451/amendment/B
notes: Passed the Senate 53-7 and the Assembly 130-1 in June 2026 and was delivered to Governor Hochul, who has until December 31, 2026 to sign or veto; as of this research date (2026-07-10) no gubernatorial action has been confirmed, so status is recorded as proposed rather than enacted. Passage predates this run's nominal 2026-07-02 discovery-window start, but the bill remains live and undecided (unlike Rhode Island's June 22 chatbot laws, which were already fully enacted before the window and are not proposed here) -- surfacing it because a pending, uncounted bill that could become law any day is more actionable for this catalogue than an already-settled one from outside the window. Also seen but deferred from the same July 2026 New York end-of-session batch: A.6578 (AI Training Data Transparency Act, a state-law parallel to tracked ca-ab2013) and S.9051 (kids AI-chatbot safety bill with a private right of action); both passed the legislature and are also awaiting Hochul's signature, and would be reasonable candidates for a future run under the same pending-bill rationale used here. Distinct from the already-tracked ny-synthetic-performer-disclosure (which governs AI 'synthetic performers' in advertising under GBL 396-b) because this bill targets disclosure of AI-generated news journalism content specifically, under a separate, dedicated FAIR News Act framework.

Properties

jurisdiction

US, New York

level

state

domain

transparency

status

proposed

scope

Requires news media organizations providing news, weather, traffic, sports, or entertainment reports (print, web, television, radio, podcast, or satellite content) that reach a New York audience to conspicuously disclose when published content was substantially created by generative AI, and includes safeguards intended to protect journalists' confidential sources and materials from being accessed by AI systems.

obligations

Any news media content published, broadcast, or otherwise disseminated or accessible within New York that was substantially composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI must conspicuously imprint or verbally orate a disclosure that the content was substantially created by generative AI, subject to an exception for content that would otherwise be copyright-eligible. Would take effect on the sixtieth day after it becomes law, if signed.

penalties

Bill text (Section 1803) sets a civil penalty of $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 for each subsequent offense, enforceable by the New York Attorney General through court injunction; not yet in force pending gubernatorial action.

appliesTo

News media organizations operating in or reaching New York audiences that publish AI-generated news content

officialUrl

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8451/amendment/B

notes

Passed the Senate 53-7 and the Assembly 130-1 in June 2026 and was delivered to Governor Hochul, who has until December 31, 2026 to sign or veto; as of this research date (2026-07-10) no gubernatorial action has been confirmed, so status is recorded as proposed rather than enacted. Passage predates this run's nominal 2026-07-02 discovery-window start, but the bill remains live and undecided (unlike Rhode Island's June 22 chatbot laws, which were already fully enacted before the window and are not proposed here) -- surfacing it because a pending, uncounted bill that could become law any day is more actionable for this catalogue than an already-settled one from outside the window. Also seen but deferred from the same July 2026 New York end-of-session batch: A.6578 (AI Training Data Transparency Act, a state-law parallel to tracked ca-ab2013) and S.9051 (kids AI-chatbot safety bill with a private right of action); both passed the legislature and are also awaiting Hochul's signature, and would be reasonable candidates for a future run under the same pending-bill rationale used here. Distinct from the already-tracked ny-synthetic-performer-disclosure (which governs AI 'synthetic performers' in advertising under GBL 396-b) because this bill targets disclosure of AI-generated news journalism content specifically, under a separate, dedicated FAIR News Act framework.