# S. 8420--A (New York) — effective the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law

For S. 8420--A (New York), effective date is the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; what it applies to is any person engaged in the business of dealing in any property or service who for any commercial purpose produces or creates an advertisement, who must conspicuously disclose in that advertisement that a synthetic performer is in it where the person has actual knowledge; a violation carries a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for a first violation and five thousand dollars for any subsequent violation, recorded from its source on 2026-09-14.

- **Jurisdiction:** New York _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Instrument:** S. 8420--A _(verified: appears in its own passage below)_
- **Effective date:** the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **What it applies to:** any person engaged in the business of dealing in any property or service who for any commercial purpose produces or creates an advertisement, who must conspicuously disclose in that advertisement that a synthetic performer is in it where the person has actual knowledge; a violation carries a civil penalty of one thousand dollars for a first violation and five thousand dollars for any subsequent violation _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.

## Where each value comes from

This source states these in separate places, so each value is shown with the passage that states it.

### Instrument

> S. 8420--A

## Source

- https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8420/amendment/A

Last verified: 2026-09-14. Review by: 2026-10-29.
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