NY S07543: Enacts the legislative oversight of automated decision-making in government act (LOADinG Act) to regulate the use of automated decision-making system…

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New York's S 7543-B, the LOADinG Act (Chapter 674 of 2024), as signed would have barred state agencies from using automated decision-making systems for public benefits or decisions affecting rights or safety without meaningful human review, and required impact assessments. Before those rules took effect, Chapter 96 of 2025 replaced them: each state agency using automated employment decision-making tools must post a list of them by December 30 each year, starting 2025; the Office of Information Technology Services keeps a public AI inventory; and, until July 1, 2028, AI use may not displace state employees. Signed December 21, 2024; effective July 1, 2025.

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What it means for business

No duties for businesses. State agencies must post yearly lists of the automated employment decision tools they use and report AI systems that may directly impact the public for the state's open-data AI inventory. Until July 1, 2028, AI may not displace state employees.

Key provisions

1. 1As signed, State Technology Law Article 4 would have barred state agencies from using or buying automated decision-making systems for public assistance benefits or functions with a material impact on rights, civil liberties, safety or welfare without continued meaningful human review, required impact assessments at least every two years, and required agencies to stop using systems found to produce discriminatory or biased outcomes
2. 2Chapter 96 of 2025 (signed February 14, 2025) repealed §§ 403-404 (impact assessments, submission and publication), rewrote §§ 401-402, repealed the act's short title and its one-time disclosure of existing systems, and moved the effective date to July 1, 2025 (Article 4 was to start one year after signing)
3. 3As amended, Article 4 covers automated employment decision-making tools: software using algorithms, computational models or AI to materially automate or replace employment decisions, such as pay, hiring, recruitment, discipline, promotion and termination; basic tools and internal-management software are excluded
4. 4Each state agency (not the Legislature or judiciary) using such a tool must post on its website a list with each tool's description, start date, and purpose and use, by December 30, 2025 and annually after (§ 402)
5. 5The Office of Information Technology Services keeps an inventory of state agency AI systems that may directly impact the public, posted on the state open data website each December 30; agencies submit data at least 60 days ahead (§ 103-e, added by Chapter 96 of 2025)
6. 6Use of AI systems may not affect collective bargaining rights, cause discharge, displacement or loss of position (including reduced hours, wages or benefits), or transfer state employees' existing duties to AI (Civil Service Law § 80(10), expires July 1, 2028)
7. 7Signed December 21, 2024 (Chapter 674, Approval Memo 97); as amended by Chapter 96 of 2025, effective July 1, 2025

Latest legislative action

Dec 21, 2024. Signed Chapter 674 of 2024 (Approval Memo 97)

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