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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9581

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2026
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  requiring  covered  busi-
          nesses  to  submit annual reports on the impact of artificial intelli-
          gence on hiring and business practices

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 201-j to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 201-j. Artificial intelligence impact  assessments.  1.  Definition.
     4  For  purposes  of this section, "covered business" shall mean a business
     5  entity that is resident in the state and:  (a)  employs  more  than  one
     6  hundred people; or (b) is a publicly traded entity.
     7    2.  Reporting  requirement.  On or before March first of every year, a
     8  covered business shall report to the department regarding the impact  of
     9  artificial  intelligence  on  its  hiring  and business practices in the
    10  calendar year ending the preceding December  thirty-first.  Such  report
    11  shall include:
    12    (a) Employment data, including but not limited to:
    13    (i)  An  estimate of the number of employees displaced, or whose hours
    14  have been reduced, due in full or in part to increased use of artificial
    15  intelligence;
    16    (ii) An estimate of the number of employees hired, or whose hours have
    17  been increased, due in full or in part to increased  use  of  artificial
    18  intelligence; and
    19    (iii)  An  estimate  of the number of positions previously filled that
    20  the covered business has decided not to fill due in full or in  part  to
    21  use of artificial intelligence; and
    22    (b)  Information  on  the  nature  of  artificial  intelligence usage,
    23  including but not limited to:
    24    (i) Descriptions of the objectives of the use of  artificial  intelli-
    25  gence;
    26    (ii)  Information regarding any human oversight of artificial intelli-
    27  gence;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iii) Information on the frequency and length  of  use  of  artificial
     2  intelligence;
     3    (iv)  Information on any use of artificial intelligence in relation to
     4  sensitive  personal  data,  including  storage  and  access  protections
     5  related  to  use of artificial intelligence in relation to such personal
     6  data; and
     7    (v)  Measures  in  place  for  oversight,  risk  reduction,  or  other
     8  protections related to use of artificial intelligence.
     9    3.  Responsibilities  of  the department. The department shall develop
    10  standard reporting forms and processes for covered businesses to  submit
    11  the  reports  required  pursuant to subdivision two of this section. The
    12  department may develop additional reporting requirements related to  the
    13  hiring and business impacts of utilization of artificial intelligence by
    14  covered businesses.
    15    4.  Annual report. (a) The department shall review the reports submit-
    16  ted by covered businesses pursuant to subdivision two  of  this  section
    17  and  shall prepare an annual report on the impact of artificial intelli-
    18  gence on hiring and business practices in the state based on the depart-
    19  ment's review of such reports submitted pursuant to subdivision  two  of
    20  this section.
    21    (b)  The department shall submit the report required pursuant to para-
    22  graph (a) of this subdivision to the governor, the  temporary  president
    23  of  the  senate,  the  minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the
    24  assembly, and the minority leader of the  assembly  within  one  hundred
    25  twenty  days  of  the  covered  business  reporting deadline established
    26  pursuant to subdivision two of this section. Such report shall  be  made
    27  publicly  available on the department's website at the same time as such
    28  report is submitted to the governor and legislature.
    29    (c) The report required pursuant to paragraph (a) of this  subdivision
    30  shall  include,  but  not  be limited to, presentation of aggregate data
    31  regarding employment impacts, objectives, and implementation of  artifi-
    32  cial  intelligence  by  covered  businesses,  including analysis of such
    33  impacts by employment sector, geographic location, and business size.
    34    5. Enforcement. A covered business who fails to report pursuant to the
    35  requirements of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of  not
    36  more  than  five  hundred  dollars  for  each  day such covered business
    37  remains in violation of such reporting requirements; provided,  however,
    38  that  the commissioner may, in the commissioner's discretion, reduce the
    39  amount of the penalty if a covered business proves to  the  satisfaction
    40  of the commissioner that the failure to report was in good faith.
    41    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.