Overview
- Lawmakers adjourned for the year on June 5 after a compressed end‑of‑session that produced dozens of late‑night floor votes and confirmations of new judges.
- The One Fair Price Act passed, barring businesses from using consumers’ personal data to charge different customers different prices for the same product or service.
- Legislators approved new limits on AI for children that ban companions that pose as real people, bar flattering or self‑harm‑promoting chatbots, and impose a five‑year moratorium on some toy‑embedded chatbots.
- A constitutional amendment to change redistricting timing and shift ballot‑explanation authority to the legislature cleared one round but must be passed again next year and then approved by voters.
- Lawmakers tightened PFAS drinking‑water limits, granted New York City a two‑year delay on class‑size mandates, increased penalties for buyers of minors, and left high‑profile measures like punitive damages for trafficking victims and packaging‑reduction rules to be revisited next year.