Wendy Carrillo
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 52
Author
Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, requires certain advertisements to contain specified disclosures. The Fair Political Practices Commission is charged with administering and implementing the act, and may, when it determines a violation has occurred, bring an administrative action and issue an order requiring the violator to cease and desist the violation, file specified documents, or pay a monetary penalty of up to $5,000 per violation. The commission may also, in certain instances, bring a civil action against any person who violates any provision of the act. This bill would require a committee that creates, originally publishes, or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a specified disclosure that the advertisement was generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence, as defined. The bill would prescribe formatting requirements for this disclosure depending on the medium of the qualified political advertisement. The bill would define "qualified political advertisement" to include any advertisement, as specified, that contains any image, audio, or video that is generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence. The bill would specify that any image, audio, video, or other media is generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence if it is entirely created using artificial intelligence and would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be authentic or materially altered by artificial intelligence such that a reasonable person would have a fundamentally different understanding of the altered media when comparing it to an unaltered version. The bill would authorize the commission to enforce a violation of these disclosure requirements by seeking injunctive relief to compel compliance or pursuing any other administrative or civil remedies available to the commission under the act. The bill would specify that a violation of these disclosure requirements does not constitute a misdemeanor. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 260, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.).
Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.).
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A., JUD. and APPR.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 0. Page 5471.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 16).
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 5215.)
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Read second time and amended.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 10).
Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS, P. & C.P. and JUD.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB2355 | HTML |
| 02/12/24 - Introduced | |
| 04/11/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/18/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/11/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/15/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/31/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/17/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 04/08/24- Assembly Elections | |
| 04/21/24- Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection | |
| 04/26/24- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 05/14/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/20/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/14/24- Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments | |
| 06/28/24- Senate Judiciary | |
| 08/02/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/15/24- Senate Appropriations | |
| 08/19/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/28/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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