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

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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-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Hughes, West 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.
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