Enacts the "compulsory artificial narrative disclosure for official rhetoric (CANDOR) act" in relation to requiring any member of the senate or assembly that rises to speak, read a statement, or enter comments into the official legislative record to verbally state a standard disclosure prior to delivering such remarks if such remarks were drafted in whole or in part by artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11684
IN ASSEMBLY
September 2, 2026
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Pirozzolo)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the disclosure of
artificial intelligence use in floor statements and debate by members
of the legislature
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 as the "compulsory
2 artificial narrative disclosure for official rhetoric (CANDOR) act".
3 § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 7-h to
4 read as follows:
5 § 7-h. Disclosure of artificial intelligence or generative artificial
6 intelligence-generated speech. 1. As used in this section, the following
7 terms shall have the following meanings:
8 (a) "Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can,
9 for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommen-
10 dations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments, and that
11 uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual envi-
12 ronments, abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an
13 automated manner, and use model inference to formulate options for
14 information or action. This definition includes but is not limited to
15 systems that use machine learning, large language model, natural
16 language processing, and computer vision technologies, including genera-
17 tive artificial intelligence.
18 (b) "Generative artificial intelligence" means a class of artificial
19 intelligence models that are self-supervised and emulate the structure
20 and characteristics of input data to generate derived synthetic content,
21 including, but not limited to, images, videos, audio, text, and other
22 digital content.
23 2. Any member of the state senate or state assembly that rises to
24 speak, read a statement, or enter comments into the official legislative
25 record, where such remarks were drafted in whole or in part by artifi-
26 cial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence, shall, prior to
27 delivering said remarks, verbally state a standard disclosure.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. The verbal disclosure required under subdivision two of this
2 section shall be delivered clearly and prominently and shall conform
3 substantially to the following format: "The following remarks contain
4 approximately (insert percentage) percent of artificial intelligence or
5 generative artificial intelligence generated text. I hereby announce
6 that these upcoming words are not the product of my own organic intel-
7 lect, independent thought, or cognitive labor, but are instead derived
8 from artificial intelligence sources."
9 4. Failure to comply with the disclosure requirements of this section
10 shall result in an immediate point of order, and the non-compliant
11 member's remarks shall be marked in the official record with a permanent
12 digital watermark reading: "WARNING: High Probability of Automated
13 Plagiarism; Content Lacks Proven Human Origin."
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
