S06953 / S8828 – Responsible AI Safety and Education (RAISE) Act

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Date Passed

12/19/2025

Effective Date

3/19/2026

Summary

Requires large frontier-model developers to create and publish safety plans, run risk assessments, report significant safety incidents, and comply with state oversight. S8828 operates as a chapter amendment to the RAISE Act, including updates to developer transparency and threshold provisions.

Healthcare Implications

Indirect but meaningful for health AI: establishes baseline safety, transparency, incident-reporting, and oversight expectations for large frontier models that may underlie clinical, biomedical, and health-adjacent tools. Health systems and vendors should treat this as upstream model-governance due diligence rather than a direct healthcare-provider rule.

Operational Implications

  • Large frontier developers must publish safety frameworks covering risk assessment, mitigation, and update processes.
  • Transparency reports with catastrophic-risk summaries; critical safety incident reporting to DFS and DHSES.
  • S8828 chapter amendment updates developer transparency/threshold provisions and supports DFS oversight of frontier model governance.

Impact Level

Low

Keywords

Safety & Risk; Transparency & Governance

Stakeholders

Providers & Health Systems; Developers & Vendors; Regulators & Government