Enacts the "options for search listing act" to require the optional use of artificial intelligence when using a search engine.

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11626

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 29, 2026
                                       ___________

        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.
                                                                   LBD16075-02-6