New York RAISE Act
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New York RAISE Act
New York
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New York RAISE Act
See the dated record below.
See the timeline and source documents below.
Not recorded as a single article-wide date; see the dated source notes.
Overview
The New York RAISE Act is New York frontier AI transparency legislation. Amendments to the law, including S 8828, narrowed developer thresholds and reduced penalties.
The amended framework was signed in March 2026.
September 21, 2026 implementation announcement
Hochul announced November registration for large frontier-AI developers and appointed Marc Gilman to support DIGIT implementation ahead of January 2027 compliance.[1] See September 22 news coverage.
October 28, 2026 expansion proposal (S10731)
S10731 was introduced October 28, 2026 and referred to the Senate Rules Committee. The proposal would amend the RAISE framework; it is not an enacted expansion. Senator Andrew Gounardes announced it October 29.[2]
The bill would reduce the training-compute threshold in the frontier-model definition from 1026 to 1025 operations, with an additional office-designation route subject to capability and risk criteria. It would replace the large-developer revenue threshold with more than $1 billion in specified frontier-model development expenditures across the developer and its affiliates over the preceding 36 months. It would expand incident definitions and oversight of automated AI research and development.[3]
Large developers would retain independent frontier examiners for annual compliance examinations. The bill separately proposes continuous assessments from January 2028, reports every 90 days beginning April 2028, and a licensed-examiner requirement from January 2029. Examiner reports would be submitted to the state and published with permitted redactions; examiners would receive access to relevant information subject to security protections and an office dispute process. The bill would not authorize a civil penalty solely for declining an examiner recommendation without a court order.[3]
The oversight office could adopt rules governing orders limiting training or automated-research computing power to reduce catastrophic risk, prevent a critical safety incident or avert a covered emergency. The attorney general could seek court relief, including restrictions on model deployment or use in the state. Proposed civil penalties could reach $1 million per day for a first violation and $3 million per day for subsequent violations; the bill expressly creates no private right of action. It also proposes minimum safety standards, expanded reporting and employee whistleblower protections.[3]
These dates and powers remain proposed. Section 8 ties commencement to the date and manner of Chapter 699 of the Laws of 2025; the bill's introduction does not establish an enacted commencement date for this expansion.[3]
See New York AI Law, Frontier-model safety and the original November 2 news entry.
Related coverage
References
- ↑ Governor Hochul, September 21, 2026.
- ↑ New York Senate, S10731 status and actions; Gounardes, October 29, 2026 announcement.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 New York Senate, S10731, introduced print (October 28, 2026), sections 1–8; complete 16-page bill reviewed November 2.