# New York — AI Law & Policy Updates

> Source: <https://ai-law-tracker.com/laws/new-york>
> Published: 2026-07-16 00:00:00+00:00

NYC Local Law 144 — automated employment decision tools · RAISE Act — frontier-AI safety (S6953B, signed Dec 2025) — **Status: Partially In Effect**

NYC Local Law 144 requires annual independent bias audits for automated employment decision tools. Separately, the RAISE Act — signed December 2025, effective January 1, 2027 — imposes safety-protocol, incident-reporting, and oversight duties on large frontier-AI developers.

**Recent developments:**