NO FAKES Act of 2026
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
The NO FAKES Act creates a federal intellectual property right over unauthorized digital replicas of a person's voice and visual likeness, including content made with generative AI. It sets up civil liability, First Amendment-related exemptions such as news and satire, a notice-and-takedown and counter-notice process, and preempts most state digital replica laws.
Model-rated AI relevance 95%: It directly regulates generative AI-produced likeness and voice replicas as a new federal right. (claude-opus-5, Sep 9, 2026)
Sponsored by
Christopher CoonsDemocratDEData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
May 20, 2026
Reported by committee
Jun 18, 2026
Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · June 24, 2026
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 446.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Landsman's Doctors Not AI Act would keep licensed clinicians, not algorithms, in charge of medical-necessity decisions with transparency for patients.
Source ↗Schrier's Doctors Not AI Act would require doctors rather than AI systems to make health coverage decisions, with oversight and disclosure.
Source ↗Jacobs introduces bipartisan legislation creating a DoD-wide AI incident and vulnerability reporting program to make military AI safer and more accountable.
Source ↗Magaziner introduces the AI Advertising Disclosure Act to require AI chatbots and generative search engines to disclose paid commercial influence, enforced by the FTC, state AGs, and a private right of action.
Source ↗Schiff calls for new federal guardrails via his AI Ads Act and PAID Act to bar fraudulent AI-generated campaign ads and require paid-influencer disclosure while protecting parody and political speech.
Source ↗Warner demands Meta account for AI-generated CSAM/NCII ads and touts his SAFE AI Act to ban such AI systems and give survivors a private right of action.
Source ↗Mullin and 17 colleagues press Meta to explain how it will guard against AI-generated election disinformation after rolling back fact-checking and integrity safeguards.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z