Bill Text: IL SB3687 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person commits a Class A misdemeanor if the person, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, creates a deep fake video (a video created with the intent to deceive that appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality) and causes the deep fake video to be published or distributed within 30 days of an election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3687 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-SB3687-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 SB3687 Introduced 1/21/2022, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/29-21 new
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person commits a Class A misdemeanor if the person, with intent to injure a candidate or influence the result of an election, creates a deep fake video (a video created with the intent to deceive that appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not occur in reality) and causes the deep fake video to be published or distributed within 30 days of an election.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section
29-21 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/29-21 new)
Sec. 29-21. Deep fake videos.
(a) As used 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.
(b) A person commits a Class A misdemeanor 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.