Enacts the "compulsory artificial narrative disclosure for official rhetoric (CANDOR) act" in relation to requiring any member of the senate or assembly that rises to speak, read a statement, or enter comments into the official legislative record to verbally state a standard disclosure prior to delivering such remarks if such remarks were drafted in whole or in part by artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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11684
I N A S S E M B L Y
September 2, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pirozzolo)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the disclosure of
artificial intelligence use in floor statements and debate by members
of the legislature
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known as the "compulsory
artificial narrative disclosure for official rhetoric (CANDOR) act".
§ 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 7-h to
read as follows:
§ 7-H. DISCLOSURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED SPEECH. 1. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING
TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
(A) "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" MEANS A MACHINE-BASED SYSTEM THAT CAN,
FOR A GIVEN SET OF HUMAN-DEFINED OBJECTIVES, MAKE PREDICTIONS, RECOMMEN-
DATIONS, OR DECISIONS INFLUENCING REAL OR VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS, AND THAT
USES MACHINE- AND HUMAN-BASED INPUTS TO PERCEIVE REAL AND VIRTUAL ENVI-
RONMENTS, ABSTRACT SUCH PERCEPTIONS INTO MODELS THROUGH ANALYSIS IN AN
AUTOMATED MANNER, AND USE MODEL INFERENCE TO FORMULATE OPTIONS FOR
INFORMATION OR ACTION. THIS DEFINITION INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO
SYSTEMS THAT USE MACHINE LEARNING, LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL, NATURAL
LANGUAGE PROCESSING, AND COMPUTER VISION TECHNOLOGIES, INCLUDING GENERA-
TIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(B) "GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" MEANS A CLASS OF ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE MODELS THAT ARE SELF-SUPERVISED AND EMULATE THE STRUCTURE
AND CHARACTERISTICS OF INPUT DATA TO GENERATE DERIVED SYNTHETIC CONTENT,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMAGES, VIDEOS, AUDIO, TEXT, AND OTHER
DIGITAL CONTENT.
2. ANY MEMBER OF THE STATE SENATE OR STATE ASSEMBLY THAT RISES TO
SPEAK, READ A STATEMENT, OR ENTER COMMENTS INTO THE OFFICIAL LEGISLATIVE
RECORD, WHERE SUCH REMARKS WERE DRAFTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY ARTIFI-
CIAL INTELLIGENCE OR GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, SHALL, PRIOR TO
DELIVERING SAID REMARKS, VERBALLY STATE A STANDARD DISCLOSURE.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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