S 1854 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Establishes the New York workforce stabilization act requiring certain businesses to conduct artificial intelligence impact assessments on the application and use of such artificial intelligence

Summary
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.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
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Jan 2025
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Governor
Introduced Jan 14, 2025 Last action Jan 7, 2026
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S1854 S1854A · 4 edits
MODERATE
This bill was amended to add Senator Liu as a sponsor and to significantly modify the artificial intelligence surcharge provisions. The most important change is replacing a fixed threshold of 'fifteen employees' with a tiered system based on company size, making the surcharge apply to larger companies with higher employee displacement thresholds. The bill also removed detailed requirements for AI impact assessments that were previously included.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded from applying only to businesses with over 100 employees to a tiered system with different thresholds based on company size (100-250, 251-500, 501-1000, and 1000+ employees).
ELIGIBILITY

Added Senator Liu as a bill sponsor

Changed the AI surcharge threshold from a flat 'fifteen employees' to a tiered system where larger companies face higher displacement thresholds (25-250 employees depending on company size)

REQUIREMENT

Removed detailed requirements for AI impact assessments including algorithm summaries, training data descriptions, and employee displacement estimates

DEFINITION

Updated the surcharge language to reference 'threshold number of employees' instead of a specific number

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Committee
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Amendments
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Jan 7, 2026
Committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
upper
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
PRINT NUMBER 1854A
upper
May 23, 2025
Upper · Passed
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO LABOR
upper
Jan 14, 2025
Committee
REFERRED TO LABOR
upper
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors

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