Bill Text: TX SB751 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an election.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [SB751 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-SB751-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 751

AN ACT
relating to the creation of a criminal offense for fabricating a
deceptive video with intent to influence the outcome of an
election.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 255.004, Election Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) A person commits an offense if the person, with intent
to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election:
(1) creates a deep fake video; and
(2) causes the deep fake video to be published or
distributed within 30 days of an election.
(e) In this section, "deep fake video" means a video,
created with the intent to deceive, that appears to depict a real
person performing an action that did not occur in reality.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 751 passed the Senate on
April 17, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 25, 2019, by the
following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 751 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 141,
Nays 3, two present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor