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Senate Bill S8102A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category

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2025-S8102 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 45-B §§1540 - 1547, amd §899-ii, Gen Bus L

2025-S8102 - Summary

Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).

2025-S8102 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8102 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8102
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to device-level
   age assurance
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 45-A to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 45-A
                        DEVICE-LEVEL AGE ASSURANCE
 
 SECTION 1509. DEFINITIONS.
         1510. AGE ASSURANCE REQUIRED.
         1511. NONDISCRIMINATION.
         1512. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY.
         1513. SCOPE.
         1514. ENFORCEMENT.
   §  1509.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE" OR "API" SHALL  MEAN  A  SYSTEM
 THAT  ALLOWS  TWO  OR  MORE SOFTWARE SYSTEMS TO COMMUNICATE AND EXCHANGE
 INFORMATION, FEATURES, AND FUNCTIONALITY.
   2. "APPLICATION STORE" SHALL MEAN A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE WEBSITE,  SOFT-
 WARE  APPLICATION,  OR ONLINE SERVICE THAT DISTRIBUTES THIRD PARTY PLAT-
 FORMS' SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS TO AN INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICE.
   3. "COVERED MANUFACTURER" SHALL MEAN A MANUFACTURER OF AN INTERNET-EN-
 ABLED DEVICE, AN OPERATING SYSTEM PROVIDER, OR AN APPLICATION STORE.
   4. "COVERED MINOR" SHALL MEAN A USER OF AN INTERNET-ENABLED DEVICE WHO
 A COVERED MANUFACTURER HAS  DETERMINED  VIA  ONE  OR  MORE  COMMERCIALLY
 REASONABLE AGE ASSURANCE METHODS TO BE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13065-02-5
 S. 8102                             2
              

2025-S8102A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 45-B §§1540 - 1547, amd §899-ii, Gen Bus L

2025-S8102A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires manufacturers of internet-enabled devices to conduct age assurance to determine a user's age category and provide all websites, online services, online applications and mobile applications on such user's internet-enabled device and/or application store manufactured by the covered manufacturer with a digital signal that such user is a covered minor as well as the age category of such covered minor via a real-time application programming interface (API).

2025-S8102A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8102A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8102--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Consumer Protection --
   recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with
   Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to device-level
   age assurance
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 45-B to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 45-B
                        DEVICE-LEVEL AGE ASSURANCE
 
 SECTION 1540. DEFINITIONS.
         1541. OBLIGATIONS FOR COVERED MANUFACTURERS.
         1542. OBLIGATIONS FOR COVERED DEVELOPERS.
         1543. NONDISCRIMINATION.
         1544. DATA SECURITY.
         1545. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY.
         1546. SCOPE.
         1547. ENFORCEMENT.
   §  1540.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   1. "AGE ASSURANCE" SHALL MEAN ANY METHOD TO REASONABLY  DETERMINE  THE
 AGE  CATEGORY  OF  A USER, USING METHODS THAT REASONABLY PREVENT AGAINST
 CIRCUMVENTION. SUCH METHOD MAY INCLUDE A METHOD THAT MEETS THE  REQUIRE-
 MENTS  OF ARTICLE FORTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, OR MAY BE A METHOD THAT IS
 IDENTIFIED PURSUANT TO  NEW  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED  BY  THE  ATTORNEY
 GENERAL CONSISTENT WITH SECTION FIFTEEN HUNDRED FORTY-FIVE OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13065-07-6
              

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