Assembly Bill A426

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to procurement requirements for end point device security

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A426 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2671
Law Section:
State Finance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §165, St Fin L (as proposed in S.5615 & A.2833)

2025-A426 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs that state agencies require that procurement of end point devices be consistent with any relevant standards, guidelines, or guidance developed as part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.

2025-A426 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    426
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Science and Technology
 
 AN ACT to amend the  state  finance  law,  in  relation  to  procurement
   requirements for end point device security

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 165 of the state finance  law,  as
 added  by  a  chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the state finance law
 relating to procurement requirements for end point device  security,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5615 and A. 2833, is amended to
 read as follows:
   9. End point device security. (a) For the purposes of this subdivision
 "end  point  device"  shall  mean  personal computing goods that include
 desktops, laptops, all-in-ones, tablets, mobile or cellular  telephones,
 thin  clients,  and monitors of various sizes; printers; and multi-func-
 tional devices that include imaging devices that combine operations such
 as copying, printing, scanning and faxing into one machine.
   (b) The commissioner and all state agencies, when procuring end  point
 devices,  shall  [require those devices, services and solutions to meet]
 BE CONSISTENT WITH  ANY  RELEVANT  STANDARDS,  GUIDELINES,  OR  GUIDANCE
 DEVELOPED  AS PART OF the National Institute of Standards and Technology
 (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.
   [(c) Within one year of adoption of any  amendments  to  the  security
 standards and guidelines referenced in paragraph (b) of this subdivision
 the  commissioner  and  each  state  agency shall update their end point
 device procurement requirements.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the state finance law
 relating to procurement requirements for end point device  security,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5615 and A. 2833, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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