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NY S08217
Bill
Status
5/21/2025
Primary Sponsor
Michelle Hinchey
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AI Summary
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Requires operators of online platforms with at least one million monthly users that allow minors to create profiles and post content to establish a 24-hour staffed hotline for law enforcement to submit search warrant questions and receive status updates
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Mandates platforms acknowledge receipt of search warrants within 8 hours and fully comply with warrants within 72 hours when the warrant targets user account information controlled by the platform
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Courts may extend the 72-hour compliance deadline upon written finding that the operator showed good cause and the extension would not cause adverse results such as danger to life, flight from prosecution, evidence destruction, witness intimidation, or investigation jeopardy
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Authorizes the Attorney General to bring enforcement actions against violators, seeking injunctions, restitution, disgorgement of profits, damages, and civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation
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Exempts platforms with fewer than one million discrete monthly users from all requirements
Legislative Description
Requires an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users to ensure that its covered platform provides a process to allow law enforcement agencies to contact such covered platform, which shall provide continuous availability of such process; provides that an operator of a covered platform with at least one million users shall comply with a search warrant within seventy-two hours of receipt under certain circumstances; provides that a court may extend the time for compliance with a search warrant under certain circumstances.
Last Action
PRINT NUMBER 8217B
1/16/2026