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Senate Bill S10456

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks

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2025-S10456 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Internet And Technology
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §1430, Gen Bus L

2025-S10456 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires an office within the department of financial services to establish minimum standards for large frontier developers' frontier AI frameworks to prevent unreasonable levels of catastrophic risk.

2025-S10456 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10456
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring mini-
   mum standards for large frontier developer's frontier AI frameworks
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 1430 to read as follows:
   § 1430. MINIMUM STANDARDS. 1. THE OFFICE SHALL  ADOPT  REGULATIONS  NO
 LATER THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO
 OF  THE  STATE  ADMINISTRATIVE  PROCEDURE  ACT TO REQUIRE LARGE FRONTIER
 DEVELOPERS' FRONTIER AI FRAMEWORKS TO MEET MINIMUM STANDARDS IN ORDER TO
 PREVENT UNREASONABLE LEVELS OF CATASTROPHIC RISK.
   2. IN DEVELOPING REGULATIONS PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,  THE  OFFICE
 SHALL CONSIDER INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAN-
 DARDS, AND LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN OTHER STATES AND JURISDICTIONS.
   3.  THE  OFFICE  SHALL  SOLICIT  FEEDBACK FROM ACADEMIA, THE EMPIRE AI
 RESEARCH INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE  OF
 THE  ECONOMIC  DEVELOPMENT  LAW,  THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MEMBERS OF CIVIL
 SOCIETY, FRONTIER MODEL DEVELOPERS, AND FOUNDATION MODEL  DEVELOPERS  IN
 DRAFTING SUCH REGULATIONS.
   4.  THE  OFFICE  SHALL  REVIEW  THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED UNDER THIS
 SECTION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. WHERE THE OFFICE DEEMS NECESSARY, THE OFFICE
 SHALL UPDATE SUCH REGULATIONS  TO  ACCOUNT  FOR  CHANGES  IN  SCIENTIFIC
 UNDERSTANDING  OF  CATASTROPHIC RISK, TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN FRONTIER
 MODELS, CRITICAL SAFETY INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED, AND/OR  IDENTIFIED
 GAPS IN EXISTING REGULATIONS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that if article 44-B of the gener-
 al business law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 2026,  shall  not
 have taken effect on or before such date then this act shall take effect
 thirty days after such article takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15886-01-6

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