S 9008

As amended 3/9/2026: - Requires synthetic content creation system providers to include content provenance verification. (Part X) - Requires every online platform to conduct age assurance to reasonably determine whether a user is a covered minor, requires parental controls, and prohibits certain features. (Part Y) - Prohibits advertising former prices unless such former price is the actual, bona fide price of the product for which the retail seller offered to the public. (Part Z) - Requires data brokers to register with the state and creates a centralized mechanism for consumers to request the deletion of their personal information. (Part AA) - Places limitations on damages resulting from motor vehicle accidents , including that no liability for non-economic loss shall be fixed unless and until the trier of fact has determined the existence of a serious injury. (Part EE) - Establishes the food retail establishment subsidization for healthy communities act (FRESH Communities) to provide loans, loan guarantees, interest subsidies and grants to businesses, municipalities, not-for-profit corporations or local development corporations for the purpose of attracting, maintaining or permitting the expansion of food retail establishments in underserved areas. (Part KK) ++Chemical++ - Requires the Department of Environmental Conservation, in consultation with the Department of Health, to promulgate rules and regulations which add PFAS as a parameter of concern for analysis under existing rules governing permit application requirements for land application facilities. (Part XX) - Requires the regulations to establish a protocol to incentivize farmers to, among other things, apply to the department for the department to perform PFAS soil testing on land where Class A biosolids or Class B biosolids have been applied. (Part XX) - Requires the Department of Agriculture and Markets to establish a PFAS agricultural response program to assist farms found to have levels of PFAS contamination which exceed established regulatory standards. (Part XX) - Requires the Department of Environmental Conservation to establish a PFAS removal treatment installation grant program, and a PFAS removal treatment maintenance rebate program. (Part YY) - Specifies that a 5 year moratorium shall be established on selling, offering for sale, distributing, or otherwise providing biosolids, including products containing biosolids, in the state for use as fertilizer, soil amendment, topsoil replacement, mulch, or for other similar purposes. (Part XX) ++Energy++ - Requires electric utilities and gas corporations seeking rate increases to disclose executives' compensation and CEO pay ratio. Limits rate increases to not more than inflation rate. Requires utilities to file multi-year rate plans. Prohibits ratepayer recovery of utilities' lobbying expense. (Part N) - Requires electric and gas utilities to annually, and as part of ratemaking hearings, submit an affordability index showing the energy burden on residential customers. (Part P) - Create a heat pump rebate program. Eligible heat pumps must meet or exceed the consortium for energy efficiency highest efficiency tier, not including any advanced tier, in effect at the beginning of the year in which the heat pump is installed at the eligible applicant's primary residence. The rebate is the lesser of 30% of cost or $2,000. (Part GGG) ++Environment++ - Establishes the Office of Resilience and requires the office to develop a strategic statewide resilience plan. (Part QQ) - Establishes that qualifying actions with respect to the construction of a new multiple dwelling or more than one contiguous multiple dwellings, including building permits, variances, subdivision approvals, site plan approvals, and zoning text amendments, that meet specified thresholds shall be automatically be determined not to have a significant impact on the environment and shall be exempt from any environmental review requirements. (Part R) - Specifies that to be determined as a "qualifying action," a multiple dwelling shall, among other things, complete a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment in accordance with CERCLA and complete testing for lead water and paint, asbestos, and radon, the results of which shall be submitted by the proposed developer of such multiple dwelling to the local agency responsible for approving or denying the application for such multiple dwelling. (Part R) - Clarifies that if the Phase I Environmental Site Assessment identifies conditions indicative of releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, the proposed developer shall conduct such physical sampling and testing as is necessary to ascertain the presence of hazardous substances. (Part R) ++Healthcare++ - Mandates that the Superintendent of Insurance publish in the annual consumer insurance guide: - the number of approvals and adverse determinations of each health insurer, - the number of prior authorization requests, approvals and denials, - the number of prior authorization appeals, appeals upheld, and appeals overturned. (Subpart A) ++Recreation++ - Repeals language limiting the use of work zone speed cameras to controlled access highways. (Part G) - Establishes a pilot program requiring the installation of intelligent speed assistance devices for repeated violations of maximum speed limits. (Part D) ++Retail++ - Prohibits advertising former prices unless such former price is the actual, bona fide price of the product for which the retail seller offered to the public. (Part Y) - Establishes that violations of such prohibited advertising of former prices shall constitute a deceptive act or deceptive practice. (Part Y) ++Financial Services++ - Directs the department of financial services to conduct a study on the banking development district program and to make recommendations to improve such program. (Part UU) ++Tax++ - Extends provisions that allow a city to create a tax increment financing district to fund a mass transportation project (Part H). ++Sections removed in amendment++ - Allowing for-hire autonomous vehicles outside of New York City. - Limitations on damages resulting from motor vehicle accidents.