S10456 • 2025

Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks

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Sponsor: Andrew Gounardes
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks

Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks Requires an office within the department of financial services to establish minimum standards for large frontier developers' frontier AI frameworks to prevent unreasonable levels of catastrophic risk.

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Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks Requires an office within the department of financial services to establish minimum standards for large frontier developers' frontier AI frameworks to prevent unreasonable levels of catastrophic risk.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

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Relates to minimum standards for large frontier developer frontier AI frameworks
Requires an office within the department of financial services to establish minimum standards for large frontier developers' frontier AI frameworks to prevent unreasonable levels of catastrophic risk.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10456

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2026
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        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring mini-
          mum standards for large frontier developer's frontier AI frameworks

          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  1430 to read as follows:
     3    § 1430. MINIMUM STANDARDS. 1. THE OFFICE SHALL  ADOPT  REGULATIONS  NO
     4  LATER THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-EIGHT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO
     5  OF  THE  STATE  ADMINISTRATIVE  PROCEDURE  ACT TO REQUIRE LARGE FRONTIER
     6  DEVELOPERS' FRONTIER AI FRAMEWORKS TO MEET MINIMUM STANDARDS IN ORDER TO
     7  PREVENT UNREASONABLE LEVELS OF CATASTROPHIC RISK.
     8    2. IN DEVELOPING REGULATIONS PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,  THE  OFFICE
     9  SHALL CONSIDER INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICES, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL STAN-
    10  DARDS, AND LAWS AND REGULATIONS IN OTHER STATES AND JURISDICTIONS.
    11    3.  THE  OFFICE  SHALL  SOLICIT  FEEDBACK FROM ACADEMIA, THE EMPIRE AI
    12  RESEARCH INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE  OF
    13  THE  ECONOMIC  DEVELOPMENT  LAW,  THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, MEMBERS OF CIVIL
    14  SOCIETY, FRONTIER MODEL DEVELOPERS, AND FOUNDATION MODEL  DEVELOPERS  IN
    15  DRAFTING SUCH REGULATIONS.
    16    4.  THE  OFFICE  SHALL  REVIEW  THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED UNDER THIS
    17  SECTION ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. WHERE THE OFFICE DEEMS NECESSARY, THE OFFICE
    18  SHALL UPDATE SUCH REGULATIONS  TO  ACCOUNT  FOR  CHANGES  IN  SCIENTIFIC
    19  UNDERSTANDING  OF  CATASTROPHIC RISK, TECHNICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN FRONTIER
    20  MODELS, CRITICAL SAFETY INCIDENTS THAT HAVE OCCURRED, AND/OR  IDENTIFIED
    21  GAPS IN EXISTING REGULATIONS.
    22    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law; provided, however, that if article 44-B of the gener-
    24  al business law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 2026,  shall  not
    25  have taken effect on or before such date then this act shall take effect
    26  thirty days after such article takes effect.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15886-01-6