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

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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-Introduced.html

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By: Hughes S.B. No. 751

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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 artificial intelligence that, with the intent to deceive,
appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not
occur in reality.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.