New York · Assembly Bill · 2023–2024 Regular Session
AB—9103
New York Assembly Bill 9103 — An Act to amend the election law, in relation to political communication utilizing artificial intelligence
Status ● Failed Effective N/A Passage Likelihood N/A

WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 1 REQUIREMENT TYPE

T-01 AI IDENTITY DISCLOSURE
1 OBLIGATION T-01.1

How Is This Bill Enforced

Enforcement Authority
Enforcement would be governed by the existing enforcement mechanisms of New York Election Law § 14-106. No new enforcement authority 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 or remedies. Enforcement and penalties would be governed by the existing penalty provisions of New York Election Law Article 14.

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)
AI disclosure requirement for political communications
Publisher

(5) 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 obligation to the existing political communication framework of Election Law § 14-106: any political communication that uses an AI system to engage in human-like conversation must inform the recipient of the AI's involvement. The duty is framed broadly — it applies across phone calls, email, and other message-based communications — and the compliance standard is flexible: disclosure must be made "by reasonable means." The bill does not define what constitutes an artificial intelligence system, a political communication, or reasonable means, leaving those terms to existing statutory context and enforcement interpretation.

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

This act shall take effect immediately.

Standard immediate-effect clause. The act would take effect immediately upon becoming law.

Passage Likelihood

Failed
Status Failed
Final action referred to election law

Legislative History

2024-02-07 referred to election law

Sources

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Entry Last Reviewed

2026-05-16
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