New York · Senate Bill · 2025-2026 Regular Sessions
SB8459
New York Senate Bill 8459 — An Act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting transcripts being made from video conference meetings by artificial intelligence without conspicuous disclosure during such meeting

Status ● Introduced Effective N/A Passage Likelihood L

WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 1 REQUIREMENT TYPE

How Is This Bill Enforced

Enforcement Authority
No enforcement mechanism, penalties, or private right of action specified in the bill text. The provision amends the Civil Rights Law, which may provide existing enforcement pathways under New York law.
Private Right of Action
No private right of action. Enforcement is exclusive to the designated authority.
Penalties
The bill specifies no penalties, damages, or remedies. Placement in Article 5 of the Civil Rights Law (alongside §§ 50–52, which govern right of privacy) may allow enforcement under the existing remedies framework for Civil Rights Law violations, but no express remedy is created by this bill.

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
Civil Rights Law § 50-h
Right to privacy; AI transcription disclosure requirement
Deployer

1 § 50-h. Right to privacy; transcription. No person shall permit a video conference meeting to be transcribed by artificial intelligence without such meeting having a conspicuous disclosure during such meeting that every person who attended such meeting may have their words from such meeting transcribed by artificial intelligence.

This section creates a single operative obligation: no person may permit a video conference meeting to be transcribed by artificial intelligence unless a conspicuous disclosure is provided during the meeting informing all attendees that their words may be transcribed by AI. The duty falls on whoever permits the AI transcription — typically the meeting host or organizer — rather than on the AI tool vendor or the transcription service itself.

The bill does not define "artificial intelligence," "video conference meeting," "conspicuous disclosure," or "person." It does not specify the form, timing, or duration of the required disclosure beyond requiring it to be "conspicuous" and to occur "during" the meeting. No enforcement mechanism or penalty is included in the bill itself, though placement in Article 5 of the Civil Rights Law may implicate existing remedies available under that article.

Compliance actions 1 item
1
Any person who permits a video conference meeting to be transcribed by AI must provide a conspicuous disclosure during the meeting informing all attendees that their words may be transcribed by artificial intelligence.
T-01.1
NY SB 8459 § 2
Effective date

This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law.

Standard effective-date provision specifying that the act takes effect on the thirtieth day after it becomes law. No staged implementation or delayed compliance timeline.

Passage Likelihood

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

Legislative History

2025-07-16 REFERRED TO RULES
2026-01-07 REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY

Entry Last Reviewed

2026-05-20
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