A09654New York2025 sessionIntroduced
Enacts the New York Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act establishing protections for individual rights with respect to computational algorithms; establishes protections against the use of algorithms involved in consequential decisions, such as those that impact people's rights, civil liberties, and livelihoods, including employment, banking, health care, the criminal justice system, public accommodations, and government services; prohibits developers and deployers from offering, licensing, or using covered algorithms that discriminate based on protected characteristics or that cause a disparate impact; requires developers and deployers of covered algorithms to complete independently audited pre-deployment evaluations and post-deployment impact assessments to identify, evaluate, and mitigate any potential biased use or discriminatory outcomes; requires developers and deployers to mitigate any harms identified by the pre-deployment evaluations and impact assessments and ensure that any covered algorithm performs reasonably well and is consistent with its publicly-advertised purpose; increases transparency around the use of covered algorithms in consequential decisions, including providing individuals a right to appeal an algorithmic decision to a human decision-maker; provides remedies for violations.
Algorithmic discrimination & biasLiability & private right of actionConsumer protection & disclosureAutomated employment decisionsHealthcare AICriminal justice & policing
Plain-language summary
The New York Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act establishes protections against algorithms used in consequential decisions affecting employment, banking, health care, criminal justice, public accommodations, and government services, prohibiting discriminatory or disparate-impact outcomes. It requires developers and deployers of covered algorithms to conduct independently audited pre- and post-deployment assessments, mitigate identified harms, increase transparency, provide a right to appeal to a human decision-maker, and establishes remedies for violations.
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History
Jan 21, 2026
Areferred to science and technology
Progress
IntroducedJan 21, 2026
Engrossed
Enrolled
Passed
Signed into law
Sponsors
MS
Rep. Michaelle Solages (D)Prime sponsor
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