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NY A05429
Bill
Status
2/14/2025
Primary Sponsor
Harry Bronson
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AI Summary
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Requires employers with over 100 employees to conduct AI impact assessments before using artificial intelligence, with reassessments every two years or before material changes to the system
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Impact assessments must include descriptions of AI objectives, underlying algorithms, training data, personal data usage, and estimates of employees already displaced or expected to be displaced
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Imposes a 2% surcharge on business income for corporations that terminate or substantially reduce hours of threshold numbers of employees due to AI, algorithms, robotic hardware, or automation (thresholds range from 25 employees for smaller firms to 250 for companies with 1,001+ workers)
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Imposes a separate 2% surcharge on corporations using AI for data mining, defined as pattern-based queries, searches, or analyses of electronic databases
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Allows surcharge waivers for businesses experiencing labor shortages, agricultural businesses needing AI for production, or small businesses requiring AI to remain economically viable, with annual reporting to the legislature on waivers granted
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Directs all surcharge revenue to the Department of Labor for worker retraining programs, workforce development, or the unemployment insurance fund, effective January 1, 2026
Legislative Description
Establishes the New York workforce stabilization act; requires certain businesses to conduct artificial intelligence impact assessments on the application and use of such artificial intelligence and to submit such impact assessments to the department of labor prior to the implementation of the artificial intelligence; establishes a surcharge on certain corporations that use artificial intelligence or data mining or have greater than a threshold number of employees displaced by artificial intelligence of a rate of 2% of the corporation's business income base; defines data mining.
Last Action
referred to labor
1/7/2026