STATE OF NEW YORK
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11626
IN ASSEMBLY
July 29, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Shrestha) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Science and Technology
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the utilization
of artificial intelligence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "options for search listing act".
3 § 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 399-
4 ss to read as follows:
5 § 399-ss. Artificial intelligence option. 1. As used in this section
6 the following terms shall have the following meanings:
7 (a) "Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can,
8 for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommen-
9 dations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that
10 uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual envi-
11 ronments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an
12 automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for
13 information or action.
14 (b) "Search engine" means a website, software program, or system that
15 allows users to find indexed information on the internet.
16 (c) "AI search engine operator" means any person, partnership, associ-
17 ation, firm, or business entity, or any member, affiliate, subsidiary or
18 beneficial owner of any partnership, association, firm, or business
19 entity who operates for or provides a search engine with output gener-
20 ated at least partially by artificial intelligence.
21 2. AI search engine operators shall provide search engine users the
22 option to turn off any display of information which is generated by
23 artificial intelligence.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
25 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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