# Patricia Fahy
Public lawmaker profile for the Negotiate The Future policy tracker.
Profile URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/lawmakers/14205
Party: D
Role: Sen
District: SD-046
States: NY
Tracked bills: 7
Latest activity: 2026-06-05
Summary: Patricia Fahy is a tracked D Sen in NY with 7 public bills. Focus areas include 5 AI, 2 Energy bills. Latest tracked bill: S08451 Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI..
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Source links:
- Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Patricia_Fahy
- Vote Smart: https://votesmart.org/candidate/143189/bio
- FollowTheMoney: https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=15666227

## Tracked bills (7)
### S08451 — Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides transparency requirements for news media content composed, authored, or otherwise created through generative AI.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S08451
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-06-05
Text available: yes

### S01169 — Regulates the development and use of certain artificial intelligence systems to prevent algorithmic discrimination; requires independent audits of high risk AI systems; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S01169
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-06-03
Text available: yes

### S10049 — Updates the definition of cyberbullying in the dignity for all students act to include intentionally using artificial intelligence to mimic or alter a person's likeness or voice without their consent.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S10049
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-05-28
Text available: yes

### S10473 — Authorizes the use of fully autonomous vehicles in Albany and Rensselaer counties until July 1, 2028; provides for operation, licensing, insurance, duties following crashes, on-demand autonomous vehicle networks, registration and titles, operation by human drivers, and related provisions.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S10473
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-05-15
Text available: yes

### S10487 — Enacts the "data center water stewardship and reuse act" to reduce reliance on potable public water supply systems and increase use of recycled or reclaimed water; provides for data center water use management into the state's environmental conservation framework, ensuring sustainability, watershed protection, and technological innovation; establishes the data center water stewardship fund.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S10487
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: Energy
Updated: 2026-05-15
Text available: yes

### S08546 — Requires the public service commission establish a grid modernization surcharge imposed on utilities for the energy use of data centers and high-intensity data centers which meet a specified threshold of electricity or information-technology load; establishes the grid modernization fund to finance investments in system reliability, capacity expansion, and integration of clean energy resources.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S08546
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: Energy
Updated: 2026-01-07
Text available: yes

### S06953 — Relates to the training and use of artificial intelligence frontier models; defines terms; establishes remedies for violations.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S06953
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Passed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2025-12-19
Text available: yes