New York A 11270: Relates to requiring display of building numbers on all buildings to which numbers have been assigned

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A11270 Summary:

BILL NOA11270 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORValdez

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Add Title L-1 Art 36 §§36.01 - 36.25, Arts & Cul L

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Enacts the "advancing rights for talent, independence, services and tenure (ARTIST) act" in relation to personal services contracts between artists and companies.

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BILL NOA11270 

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05/04/2026referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 11270

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 4, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. VALDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

 AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to enact-
 ing the "advancing rights for talent, independence, services and
 tenure (ARTIST) act"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "advancing rights for talent, independence, services and tenure
 3 (ARTIST) act".
 4 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds and declares that:
 5 (a) New York's music industry contributes nearly twenty-five billion
 6 dollars annually to the state's economy, supports tens of thousands of
 7 jobs across recording, publishing, live performance, and distribution,
 8 and ranks second among all states in music industry gross domestic prod-
 9 uct behind only California. New York is home to one of the nation's
 10 largest concentrations of recording artists, songwriters, composers, and
 11 music producers. The companies that acquire, distribute, and commercial-
 12 ly exploit their recordings and compositions depend entirely on the
 13 creative labor of those individuals for their commercial value. Yet
 14 standard recording and publishing contracts function to transfer
 15 substantially all long-term economic value to companies while leaving
 16 artists to bear the full risk of commercial failure.
 17 (b) The state's arts and cultural affairs law already recognizes the
 18 need to protect artists from long-term exploitation, prohibiting indefi-
 19 nite personal services contracts for performers under the age of eigh-
 20 teen. This act extends those protections to adult artists, closing a
 21 gap in the existing law that has left New York's creative workforce
 22 vulnerable to indefinite and one-sided contractual arrangements.
 23 (c) The mechanisms through which this exploitation occurs include
 24 unilateral option periods that restrict the artist at the company's
 25 discretion; minimum commitment structures that condition the artist's
 26 right to leave on delivery requirements the company controls; and exclu-
 27 sivity provisions that prevent artists from developing alternative

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15397-03-6

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 1 professional relationships. These arrangements are not the product of
 2 arm's-length bargaining. A small number of entities control the distrib-
 3 ution infrastructure through which creative work reaches audiences at
 4 scale.
 5 (d) The legislature therefore finds it necessary to establish reason-
 6 able limits on the length of creative contracts and to provide artists
 7 with fairer terms regarding compensation and ownership of their work.
 8 The purpose of this act is to modernize New York's arts and cultural
 9 affairs law, promote career mobility and strengthen the stability of the
 10 state's creative economy.
 11 § 3. The arts and cultural affairs law is amended by adding a new
 12 title L-1 to read as follows:
 13 TITLE L-1
 14 ADVANCING RIGHTS FOR TALENT, INDEPENDENCE, SERVICES AND TENURE
 15 (ARTIST) ACT
 16 ARTICLE 36
 17 ADVANCING RIGHTS FOR TALENT, INDEPENDENCE, SERVICES AND TENURE
 18 (ARTIST) ACT
 19 Section 36.01. Definitions.
 20 36.03. Exclusions.
 21 36.05. Anti-circumvention.
 22 36.07. Maximum duration.
 23 36.09. Post-termination rights.
 24 36.11. Change in ownership or leadership.
 25 36.13. Effect of no