S 8850 — Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user

Congress · introduced 2026-01-09

Establishes the NY digital choice act requiring social media companies to provide covered users with a copy of the covered user's social graph at the request of the covered user; defines terms; provides requirements for the interoperability of covered users' data; grants the attorney general the authority to promulgate rules and regulations and enforce such provisions.

Latest action: 2026-04-13 — IN_SENATE_COMM

Action timeline

2026-01-09 · senate — REFERRED TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
2026-04-13 · senate — AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY
2026-04-13 · senate — PRINT NUMBER 8850A

Text versions

Introduced · 2026-01-09 — HTML · Text
Amendment A · 2026-04-13 — HTML · Text

Connected on the graph

Inbound (3)

date	from	type	amount	role	source
2026-01-09	Shelley Mayer	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-09	Andrew Gounardes	sponsor_of_bill	—	sponsor	sponsorship
2026-01-09	Zellnor Myrie	cosponsor_of_bill	—	cosponsor	sponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#	Member	Role	Voted	Score
1	Andrew Gounardes (—, state_upper NY-26)	sponsor	—	5
2	Shelley Mayer (—, state_upper NY-37)	cosponsor	—	1
3	Zellnor Myrie (—, state_upper NY-20)	cosponsor	—	1

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

2026-01-09 · cosponsored by Zellnor Myrie (cosponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-09 · sponsored by Andrew Gounardes (sponsor) · sponsorship
2026-01-09 · cosponsored by Shelley Mayer (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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