# New York Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act (S.6953-B / A.6453-B, signed December 2025)

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: New York (United States)
- **Instrument type**: Act / statute
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Issuing body**: New York State Legislature
- **Adopted**: 2025-12-19
- **Applies from**: 2027-01-01

## In brief

The New York RAISE Act (frontier model safety) is a binding act of New York (United States), issued by New York State Legislature. It was adopted on 19 December 2025 and applies from 1 January 2027. Large frontier-model developers whose models are available in New York; not deployers of ordinary AI systems.

## Summary

The RAISE Act requires large developers of frontier AI models (defined by training compute and revenue thresholds) to publish and follow a safety and security protocol, report critical safety incidents to the state within a set period, not deploy models that create unreasonable risk of critical harm, and submit to Attorney General enforcement with civil penalties; the chapter amendments create a state oversight office and align definitions with California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act.

## Scope

Large frontier-model developers whose models are available in New York; not deployers of ordinary AI systems.

## Key dates

2025-06-12: passed Legislature; 2025-12-19: signed with agreed chapter amendments; 2027-01-01: reported effective date.

## Notes on dates

Signing and effective dates reported in press coverage; verify against the enrolled chapter text.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0225 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0225; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-raise-act
- **Official source**: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S6953/amendment/B
- **Source document**: New York State Senate: bill S6953
- **Published by**: New York State Senate
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "New York Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act (S.6953-B / A.6453-B, signed December 2025)" [AIPT-POL-0225, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0225 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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