# Michelle Hinchey
Public lawmaker profile for the Negotiate The Future policy tracker.
Profile URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/lawmakers/22254
Party: D
Role: Sen
District: SD-041
States: NY
Tracked bills: 5
Latest activity: 2026-01-15
Summary: Michelle Hinchey is a tracked D Sen in NY with 5 public bills. Focus areas include 5 AI bills. Latest tracked bill: S08706 Requires covered businesses to annually report to the department of labor regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use for the previous year; requires the department of labor to file an annual report on the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use in the state; establishes penalties for covered business that fail to submit such reports..
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- Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/Michelle_Hinchey
- Vote Smart: https://votesmart.org/candidate/191970/bio
- FollowTheMoney: https://www.followthemoney.org/entity-details?eid=49831875

## Tracked bills (5)
### S08706 — Requires covered businesses to annually report to the department of labor regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use for the previous year; requires the department of labor to file an annual report on the impact of artificial intelligence on hiring and the nature of artificial intelligence use in the state; establishes penalties for covered business that fail to submit such reports.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S08706
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-01-15
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 as well as a private right of action.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S01169
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Engrossed
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-01-07
Text available: yes

### S01854 — Establishes the New York workforce stabilization act; requires certain businesses to conduct artificial intelligence impact assessments on the application and use of such artificial intelligence and to submit such impact assessments to the department of labor prior to the implementation of the artificial intelligence; establishes a surcharge on certain corporations that use artificial intelligence or data mining or have greater than a threshold number of employees displaced by artificial intelligence of a rate of 2% of the corporation's business income base; defines data mining.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S01854
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
Updated: 2026-01-07
Text available: yes

### S08451 — Enacts the "New York fundamental artificial intelligence requirements in (FAIR) news act"; provides requirements for fairness in disclosures to news media workers, news media consumers, oversight of AI systems, and workplace protections for news media workers.
URL: https://negotiatethefuture.org/policy-tracker/NY/2025/S08451
Jurisdiction: NY
Session year: 2025
Status: Introduced
Categories: AI
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