Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Targets AI-generated deceptive content in political campaigns, likely requiring disclosure of synthetic media in election ads and creating remedies against distributing fraudulent AI-generated depictions of candidates. It matters because generative AI makes convincing fake audio and video of politicians cheap to produce.
Model-rated AI relevance 95%.
Sponsored by
Amy KlobucharDemocratMNData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Mar 31, 2025
Reported by committee
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · March 31, 2025
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Warnock calls for a statewide moratorium on AI data center construction unless projects guarantee no utility cost hikes, no NDAs, no tax giveaways, and no pollution.
Source ↗Burlison would bar federal funds for AI-augmented license plate readers and biometric surveillance cameras to protect Fourth Amendment privacy rights.
Source ↗Hawley is investigating AI surveillance camera companies, arguing Congress never authorized these invasive AI-driven networks and that corporate self-policing is an inadequate safeguard.
Source ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.
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 ↗Harrigan backs bipartisan monitoring of self-improving AI through NIST while stressing the bill imposes no new mandates and won't impede innovation.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z