New York Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act / S6953B)

Properties

jurisdiction: US, New York
level: state
domain: safety
status: enacted-pending
scope: Requires large frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks, report critical safety incidents to the state within 72 hours, and submit to oversight by a new office within the New York Department of Financial Services. Applies to companies with annual revenue exceeding $500 million that develop frontier models trained using more than 10^26 FLOPs.
obligations: Large frontier developers must: create and publish detailed plans describing how they handle safety standards, risk assessment, risk-mitigation techniques, third-party catastrophic-risk evaluation, cybersecurity to prevent model theft, safety-incident response, and best-practices frameworks; report safety incidents to the State within 72 hours of determining an incident occurred.
effectiveDate: 2027-01-01
enactedDate: 2025-12-19
penalties: New York Attorney General may bring civil actions; penalties up to $1,000,000 for first violation and $3,000,000 for subsequent violations for failure to report or false statements.
appliesTo: large frontier developers: companies with annual revenue exceeding $500 million that develop frontier models (training compute greater than 10^26 FLOPs)
officialUrl: https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-nation-leading-legislation-require-ai-frameworks-ai-frontier-models
notes: Signed December 19, 2025 by Governor Hochul; chapter amendment signed March 27, 2026. Second US frontier AI safety law after California SB 53. Creates oversight office within the Department of Financial Services. Effective January 1, 2027.

Properties

jurisdiction

US, New York

level

state

domain

safety

status

enacted-pending

scope

Requires large frontier AI developers to publish safety frameworks, report critical safety incidents to the state within 72 hours, and submit to oversight by a new office within the New York Department of Financial Services. Applies to companies with annual revenue exceeding $500 million that develop frontier models trained using more than 10^26 FLOPs.

obligations

Large frontier developers must: create and publish detailed plans describing how they handle safety standards, risk assessment, risk-mitigation techniques, third-party catastrophic-risk evaluation, cybersecurity to prevent model theft, safety-incident response, and best-practices frameworks; report safety incidents to the State within 72 hours of determining an incident occurred.

effectiveDate

2027-01-01

enactedDate

2025-12-19

penalties

New York Attorney General may bring civil actions; penalties up to $1,000,000 for first violation and $3,000,000 for subsequent violations for failure to report or false statements.

appliesTo

large frontier developers: companies with annual revenue exceeding $500 million that develop frontier models (training compute greater than 10^26 FLOPs)

officialUrl

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-nation-leading-legislation-require-ai-frameworks-ai-frontier-models

notes

Signed December 19, 2025 by Governor Hochul; chapter amendment signed March 27, 2026. Second US frontier AI safety law after California SB 53. Creates oversight office within the Department of Financial Services. Effective January 1, 2027.