Something seems wrong about the dates in this article. The article has a byline for today, but the bill was proposed in June 2015, and would have an effective-of date of the first of this year.

nysenate.gov indicates that it's still in committee: http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2015/a8093 ... hopefully dead there.

edit: from the Ars Technica article, it's been reintroduced -- see: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term... . The EFF thinks it'll not get anywhere, though.