New York S 7963: Relates to requiring certain notifications regarding PILOT agreements with industrial development agencies

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S07963 Summary:

BILL NOS07963 

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SAME ASSAME AS A08523

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SPONSORGONZALEZ

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §14-106, El L

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Requires certain political communications to include provenance data for all audios, images or videos used in such communications; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof.

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BILL NOS07963 

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ELECTIONS

02/26/20261ST REPORT CAL.445

03/04/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/05/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7963

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. GONZALEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring certain poli-
 tical communications to include provenance data for all audio, images
 or videos used in such communications; and providing for the repeal of
 certain provisions upon the expiration thereof

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

 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "election
 2 content accountability act".
 3 § 2. Section 14-106 of the election law is amended by adding a new
 4 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 5 8. (a) For purposes of this subdivision:
 6 (i) "Provenance data" means data that records the origin or history of
 7 digital content and is communicated as a content credential pursuant to
 8 the Technical Specification for Content Credentials published by the
 9 Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, and which discloses:
 10 (1) information about the origin or creation of the content; (2) any
 11 subsequent editing or modification to the content or its metadata; and
 12 (3) any use of generative artificial intelligence in generating or modi-
 13 fying the content. "Provenance data" does not include personal informa-
 14 tion as defined in subdivision five of section two hundred two of the
 15 state technology law or a unique device, system, or service information
 16 that is reasonably capable of being associated with a particular user,
 17 including but not limited to an internet protocol address.
 18 (ii) "Generative artificial intelligence system" means a class of AI
 19 model that is self-supervised and emulates the structure and character-
 20 istics of input data in order to generate derived synthetic content,
 21 including, but not limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other
 22 digital content.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07928-04-5

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 1 (iii) "Synthetic content" means audio, images or videos that have been
 2 produced or significantly modified by a generative artificial intelli-
 3 gence system.
 4 (iv) "AI model" means an information system or a component of an
 5 information system that implements artificial intelligence technology
 6 and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learning techniques to
 7 produce outputs from a given set of inputs.
 8 (v) "Generative artificial intelligence provider" means an organiza-
 9 tion or individual that creates, codes, substantially modifies, or
 10 otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence system that is
 11 made publicly available for use by a New York resident, regardless of
 12 whether the terms of such use include compensation.
 13 (b) Commencing with the two thousand thirty election cycle, a campaign
 14 for the office of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, or
 15 comptroller shall apply provenance data, either directly or through the
 16 use of third-party technology, to all political communications distrib-
 17 uted or published by the campaign that are produced as or include images
 18 or videos.
 19 (c) The application of provenance data to political communications, as
 20 required by this subdivision, shall, at a minimum, communicate the
 21 follow