New York A 6545: Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals
Status: REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES (as of 2026-05-28)
State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: A 6545
Sponsors: John Zaccaro Jr., Alec Brook-Krasny, Alicia Hyndman, Brian Cunningham, Brian D. Miller, Brian Manktelow, Carrie Woerner, Dana Levenberg, Daniel Norber, David McDonough, Deborah Glick, Edward Ra, Emerita Torres, Jeff Gallahan, Jen Lunsford, John T. McDonald III, Jonathan Jacobson, Jordan Wright, Joseph Sempolinski, Judy Griffin, Kalman Yeger, Karen McMahon, Karines Reyes, Keith Brown, Marianne Buttenschon
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Bill Search and Legislative Information | New York State Assembly • • • • • • • • Skip to main content New York State Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie --> --> --> • Assembly Members • Legislative Info • Public Hearings • Speaker's Press • Assembly Reports • Committees & More • Bill Search Home • Laws • Legislative Calendar • Public Hearing Schedule • Assembly Calendars • Assembly Committee Agenda Javascript must be enabled to properly view this page. Bill No.: • Summary • Actions • Committee Votes • Floor Votes • Memo • Text • LFIN • Chamber Video/Transcript A06545 Summary: BILL NOA06545C   SAME ASSAME AS S07263-A   SPONSORZaccaro   COSPNSRTapia, Raga, McDonough, Novakhov, Steck, Davila, Jacobson, Glick, Woerner, Miller, Brown K, Gallahan, Hyndman, Cunningham, Reyes, Yeger, Kassay, Shimsky, Pirozzolo, McDonald, Torres, Buttenschon, Sempolinski, Ra, Levenberg, Griffin, Gray, Manktelow, Chludzinski, Cook, Brook-Krasny, Norber, Wright, Forrest, McMahon, Lunsford   MLTSPNSR   Add §390-f, Gen Bus L   Imposes liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals. Go to top A06545 Actions: BILL NOA06545C   03/06/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection 04/07/2025amend (t) and recommit to consumer affairs and protection 04/07/2025print number 6545a 01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection 03/05/2026reference changed to science and technology 05/04/2026amend and recommit to science and technology 05/04/2026print number 6545b 05/13/2026reported referred to codes 05/14/2026amend and recommit to codes 05/14/2026print number 6545c 05/28/2026reported referred to rules 06/01/2026reported 06/01/2026rules report cal.294 06/01/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.294 Go to topA06545 Committee Votes: Committee:SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Chair:Otis DATE:05/13/2026AYE/NAY:7/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes OtisAyeBlumencranzAye VanelAyeDursoAye BurkeAye ConradAye GibbsExcused BoresExcused HooksAye Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz DATE:05/28/2026AYE/NAY:18/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye CookExcusedReillyAye LavineAyeMikulinExcused WeprinAyeTannousisAye HevesiAyeAngelinoAye SeawrightAyeMolitorAye RosenthalAye WalkerAye VanelAbsent CruzAye BoresExcused ReyesAye CunninghamAye RomeroAye AlvarezAye TaylorAye Committee:RULES Chair:Glick DATE:06/01/2026AYE/NAY:28/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye PretlowAyeHawleyAye CookExcusedBlankenbushAye GlickAyeBrabenecAye DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye ColtonAyeReillyAye MagnarelliAyeSmithAye PaulinAyeJensenAye Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye BenedettoAye LavineAye LupardoAye BraunsteinAye DavilaExcused HyndmanAye RozicAye BronsonAye HevesiAye HunterAye TaylorAye CruzAye VanelAye Go to topA06545 Floor Votes: There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session. Go to topA06545 Text: STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6545--C 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ZACCARO, TAPIA, RAGA, McDONOUGH, NOVAKHOV, STECK, DAVILA, JACOBSON, GLICK, WOERNER, MILLER, K. BROWN, GALLAHAN, HYNDMAN, CUNNINGHAM, REYES, YEGER, KASSAY, SHIMSKY, PIROZZOLO, McDONALD, TORRES, BUTTENSCHON, SEMPOLINSKI, RA, LEVENBERG, GRIFFIN, GRAY, MANK- TELOW, CHLUDZINSKI, COOK, BROOK-KRASNY, NORBER, WRIGHT, FORREST, McMA- HON, LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reference changed to the Committee on Science and Technology -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to imposing liability for damages caused by a chatbot impersonating certain licensed professionals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 390-f to read as follows: 3 § 390-f. Liability for chatbot responses. 1. As used in this section, 4 the following terms shall have the following meanings: 5 (a) "Artificial intelligence" shall have the same meaning as defined 6 by section seventeen hundred of this chapter. 7 (b) "Generative artificial intelligence" shall have the same meaning 8 as defined by section seventeen hundred of this chapter. 9 (c) "Chatbot" shall mean an artificial intelligence system
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