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

Texas Senate Bill 751 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

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

Download: Texas-2019-SB751-Enrolled.html



	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.


	______________________________
	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.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor