New York · Assembly Bill · 2025-2026 Regular Sessions
AB3327
New York Assembly Bill 3327 — An Act to amend the election law, in relation to political communication utilizing artificial intelligence

Status ● Introduced Effective N/A Passage Likelihood L

WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 1 REQUIREMENT TYPE

How Is This Bill Enforced

Enforcement Authority
Enforcement falls under the existing election law enforcement framework administered by the New York State Board of Elections. No new enforcement mechanism or private right of action is created by this bill.
Private Right of Action
No private right of action. Enforcement is exclusive to the designated authority.
Penalties
The bill does not specify penalties, damages, or remedies. Enforcement and penalties would be governed by the existing penalty provisions of New York Election Law § 14-126 and related enforcement sections.

What This Bill Requires

Verbatim statutory text on the left; plain-language analysis and a per-section checklist on the right. Numbered markers cross-link to the matching checklist row.

Statutory Text
Analysis & Obligations
Election Law § 14-106(5-a)
AI disclosure requirement for political communications
Publisher

(5-a) 1 Any political communication, whether made by phone call, email or other message-based communication, that utilizes an artificial intelligence system to engage in human-like conversation with another shall, by reasonable means, apprise the person of the fact that they are communicating with an artificial intelligence system.

This new subdivision adds a single operative obligation to the existing election law framework governing political communications. Any political communication delivered by phone call, email, or other message-based channel that employs an AI system to conduct human-like conversation must apprise the recipient that they are communicating with an AI system. The obligation is framed broadly — it applies regardless of who makes the communication (candidate, committee, PAC, or any other person) — and the disclosure standard is flexible: the person must be apprised "by reasonable means," without prescribing specific label language, placement, or timing.

The bill does not define artificial intelligence system, political communication, or human-like conversation, leaving those terms to their ordinary meaning and the existing election law context. The absence of definitions creates interpretive latitude — for example, whether a pre-recorded AI-generated robocall that does not adaptively respond constitutes engaging in "human-like conversation" is unclear. The obligation most naturally applies to interactive AI agents that converse in real time with voters.

Compliance actions 1 item
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Any person making a political communication by phone call, email, or other message-based channel that uses an AI system to engage in human-like conversation must, by reasonable means, inform the recipient that they are communicating with an AI system.
T-01.1
§ 2
Effective date

This act shall take effect immediately.

Standard immediate-effect clause. The act takes effect upon enactment with no delayed operative date or staged implementation schedule.

Passage Likelihood

Low
Status Introduced
Chamber No passage
Committee No action
Majority party Yes
Bipartisan No
Prior session None

Legislative History

2025-01-27 referred to election law
2026-01-07 referred to election law

Entry Last Reviewed

2026-05-20
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