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1	1	104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1732 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act Creates the Journalism Preservation Act. Provides that specified online platforms shall track and record, on a monthly basis, the total number of times the online platform's websites link to, display, or present a digital journalism provider's news articles, works of journalism, or other content that are displayed or presented to Illinois residents and remit a journalism usage fee payment to each digital journalism provider who has satisfied specific requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning notice requirements; fee payments; calculation of fees; arbitration; non-retaliation; funding for journalists and support staff; reporting requirements; preservation of rights; and severability. LRB104 09901 SPS 19971 b A BILL FOR 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB1732 Introduced 2/5/2025, by Sen. Steve Stadelman SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: New Act New Act Creates the Journalism Preservation Act. Provides that specified online platforms shall track and record, on a monthly basis, the total number of times the online platform's websites link to, display, or present a digital journalism provider's news articles, works of journalism, or other content that are displayed or presented to Illinois residents and remit a journalism usage fee payment to each digital journalism provider who has satisfied specific requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning notice requirements; fee payments; calculation of fees; arbitration; non-retaliation; funding for journalists and support staff; reporting requirements; preservation of rights; and severability. LRB104 09901 SPS 19971 b LRB104 09901 SPS 19971 b A BILL FOR
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11	11	1 AN ACT concerning business.
12	12	2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
13	13	3 represented in the General Assembly:
14	14	4 Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
15	15	5 Journalism Preservation Act.
16	16	6 Section 5. Findings.
17	17	7 (a) A free and diverse fourth estate was critical in the
18	18	8 founding of our democracy and continues to be the lifeblood
19	19	9 for a functioning democracy.
20	20	10 (b) Every day, journalism plays an essential role in
21	21	11 Illinois and in local communities, and the ability of local
22	22	12 news organizations to continue to provide the public with
23	23	13 critical information about their communities and enabling
24	24	14 publishers to receive fair market value for their content that
25	25	15 is used by others will preserve and ensure the sustainability
26	26	16 of local and diverse news outlets.
27	27	17 (c) Communities without newspapers lose touch with
28	28	18 government, business, education, and neighbors. They operate
29	29	19 without journalists working to keep them informed, uncover
30	30	20 truth, expose corruption, and share common goals and
31	31	21 experiences.
32	32	22 (d) Over the past 10 years, newspaper advertising has
33	33	23 decreased 66%, and newsroom staff has declined 44%.
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68	68	1 (e) Ethnic media has long been a distinctive genre of
69	69	2 journalism and communications, informing, engaging, and
70	70	3 advocating on behalf of communities underserved by both the
71	71	4 for-profit and not-for-profit general media market. It plays a
72	72	5 unique role in upholding the fourth estate in our democracy by
73	73	6 facilitating cross-racial and cross-ethnic communications to
74	74	7 facilitate social integration, promote civic engagement, and
75	75	8 address inequalities among all of the underserved communities.
76	76	9 (f) Given the important role of ethnic media, it is
77	77	10 critical to advance State policy that ensures their publishers
78	78	11 are justly compensated for the content they create and
79	79	12 distribute. An example is the historic preamble, "We Wish to
80	80	13 Plead Our Own Cause," a document penned by the
81	81	14 African-American journalist and abolitionist Samuel Cornish in
82	82	15 1827. It marked a significant milestone in the history of the
83	83	16 Black press as it highlighted the urgent need for African
84	84	17 Americans to have their own platform to voice their
85	85	18 grievances, advocate for their rights, and challenge racial
86	86	19 inequality. This call to action spurred the establishment of
87	87	20 numerous Black-owned newspapers and publications, solidifying
88	88	21 the role of the Black press as a powerful tool for empowerment
89	89	22 and social change, and laid the groundwork in our country for
90	90	23 other ethnic media to plead their own cause.
91	91	24 (g) Quality local journalism is key to sustaining civic
92	92	25 society, strengthening communal ties, and providing
93	93	26 information at a deeper level that national outlets cannot
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104	104	1 match.
105	105	2 (h) When surveyed, 73% of adults in the United States say
106	106	3 they have confidence in their local newspaper.
107	107	4 Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
108	108	5 "Access" means to acquire, to crawl, or to index content.
109	109	6 "Advertising revenue" means revenue generated through the
110	110	7 sale of digital advertising impressions that are served to
111	111	8 customers in this State through an online platform, regardless
112	112	9 of whether those impressions are served on websites or
113	113	10 accessed through online or mobile applications.
114	114	11 "Covered platform" means an online platform that, at any
115	115	12 point during a 12-month period, either:
116	116	13 (1) has at least 50,000,000 United States-based
117	117	14 monthly active users or subscribers on the online
118	118	15 platform; or
119	119	16 (2) is owned or controlled by a person that either
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121	121	18 (A) net annual sales in the United States or a
122	122	19 market capitalization greater than $550,000,000,000,
123	123	20 adjusted annually for inflation on the basis of the
124	124	21 Consumer Price Index published by the United States
125	125	22 Bureau of Labor Statistics; or
126	126	23 (B) at least 1,000,000,000 worldwide monthly
127	127	24 active users on the online platform.
128	128	25 "Covered platform" does not mean an organization exempt
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139	139	1 from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the
140	140	2 Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
141	141	3 "Eligible broadcaster" means a person that:
142	142	4 (1) holds or operates under a license issued by the
143	143	5 Federal Communications Commission under 47 U.S.C. 301 et
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145	145	7 (2) engages professionals to create, edit, produce,
146	146	8 and distribute original content concerning local,
147	147	9 regional, national, or international matters of public
148	148	10 interest through activities, including conducting
149	149	11 interviews, observing current events, analyzing documents
150	150	12 and other information, or fact checking through multiple
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152	152	14 (3) updates its content on at least a weekly basis;
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154	154	16 (4) uses an editorial process for error correction and
155	155	17 clarification, including a transparent process for
156	156	18 reporting errors or complaints to the station.
157	157	19 "Eligible digital journalism provider" means an eligible
158	158	20 publisher or eligible broadcaster that discloses its ownership
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160	160	22 "Eligible publisher" means a person that publishes a
161	161	23 qualifying publication.
162	162	24 "News journalist" means a natural person who:
163	163	25 (1) is employed for an average of at least 30 hours per
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176	176	2 (2) is responsible for gathering, developing,
177	177	3 preparing, directing the recording of, producing,
178	178	4 collecting, photographing, recording, writing, editing,
179	179	5 reporting, designing, presenting, distributing, or
180	180	6 publishing original news or information that concerns
181	181	7 local, regional, national, or international matters of
182	182	8 public interest.
183	183	9 "Notifying eligible digital journalism provider" means an
184	184	10 entity that has provided notice to a covered platform as
185	185	11 described in Section 15 that the entity is an eligible digital
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187	187	13 "Online platform" means a website, online or mobile
188	188	14 application, digital assistant, or online service that:
189	189	15 (1) accesses news articles, works of journalism, or
190	190	16 other content, or portions thereof, generated, created,
191	191	17 produced, or owned by an eligible digital journalism
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193	193	19 (2) aggregates, displays, provides, distributes, or
194	194	20 directs users to content described in paragraph (1) of
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196	196	22 "Qualifying publication" means a website, online or mobile
197	197	23 application, or other digital service that:
198	198	24 (1) does not primarily display, provide, distribute,
199	199	25 or offer content generated, created, produced, or owned by
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211	211	1 (2) provides information to an audience in this State;
212	212	2 (3) performs a public information function comparable
213	213	3 to that traditionally served by newspapers and other
214	214	4 periodical news publications;
215	215	5 (4) engages professionals to create, edit, produce,
216	216	6 and distribute original content concerning local,
217	217	7 regional, national, or international matters of public
218	218	8 interest through activities, including conducting
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220	220	10 and other information, or fact checking through multiple
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222	222	12 (5) updates its content at least 52 weeks in a
223	223	13 calendar year;
224	224	14 (6) has an editorial process for error correction and
225	225	15 clarification, including a transparent process for
226	226	16 reporting errors or complaints to the publication; and
227	227	17 (7) meets any of the following criteria:
228	228	18 (A) generated at least $100,000 in annual revenue
229	229	19 from its editorial content in the previous calendar
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231	231	21 (B) had an International Standard Serial Number
232	232	22 assigned to an affiliated periodical before submitting
233	233	23 notice to a covered platform under Section 15; or
234	234	24 (C) is owned or controlled by an organization
235	235	25 exempt from federal income taxation under Section
236	236	26 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
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247	247	1 (8) has at least 25% of its editorial content
248	248	2 consisting of information about topics of current local,
249	249	3 regional, national, or international public interest; or
250	250	4 (9) is not controlled, or wholly or partially owned
251	251	5 by, an entity that:
252	252	6 (A) is a foreign power or an agent of a foreign
253	253	7 power, as those terms are defined in 50 U.S.C. 1801;
254	254	8 (B) is designated as a foreign terrorist
255	255	9 organization under 8 U.S.C. 1189;
256	256	10 (C) is a terrorist organization, as defined in 8
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258	258	12 (D) is designated as a specially designated global
259	259	13 terrorist organization under federal Executive Order
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261	261	15 (E) is an affiliate of an entity described in
262	262	16 subparagraph (1), (2), (3), or (4); and
263	263	17 (F) has been convicted of violating, or attempting
264	264	18 to violate 18 U.S.C. 2331, 2332b, or 2339A.
265	265	19 "Representative" means a labor organization designated as
266	266	20 the exclusive bargaining representative of news journalists or
267	267	21 support staff for the purposes of collective bargaining in
268	268	22 accordance with State or federal law.
269	269	23 "Support staff" means a natural person who performs
270	270	24 nonexecutive functions, including payroll, human resources,
271	271	25 fundraising and grant support, advertising and sales,
272	272	26 community events and partnerships, technical support,
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283	283	1 sanitation, and security.
284	284	2 Section 15. Notice requirements for journalism usage fee
285	285	3 payments.
286	286	4 (a) On or before January 1, 2025, all eligible digital
287	287	5 journalism providers that want to receive journalism usage fee
288	288	6 payments under this Act shall submit notice to a covered
289	289	7 platform as described in subsection (b). All eligible digital
290	290	8 journalism providers that submit the notice shall receive
291	291	9 journalism usage fee payments from covered platforms as
292	292	10 described in Section 20 beginning no later than 30 days after
293	293	11 the end of the arbitration process described in Section 25.
294	294	12 Digital journalism providers may provide notice to a covered
295	295	13 platform as described in subsection (b) after the initial
296	296	14 arbitration has concluded; however, notice received from an
297	297	15 eligible digital journalism provider after January 1, 2025,
298	298	16 shall not prompt any adjustment to the percentage of
299	299	17 advertising revenue that has previously been determined under
300	300	18 the most recent arbitration proceeding conducted as described
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302	302	20 (b) The notice described in subsection (a) shall:
303	303	21 (1) identifies the eligible digital journalism
304	304	22 provider and the authorized representative of the eligible
305	305	23 digital journalism provider;
306	306	24 (2) certifies, not under penalty of perjury, that the
307	307	25 eligible digital journalism provider reasonably believes
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318	318	1 that it is either an eligible broadcaster or an eligible
319	319	2 publisher; and
320	320	3 (3) identifies the root uniform resource locators for
321	321	4 the websites associated with the eligible digital
322	322	5 journalism provider's digital content.
323	323	6 (c) No later than 30 days after submitting a notice
324	324	7 described in subsection (b), the eligible digital journalism
325	325	8 provider shall distribute a copy of the notice to the news
326	326	9 journalists and support staff that it employs and their
327	327	10 representatives, if any, and publish a copy of the notice
328	328	11 online in a text-searchable format.
329	329	12 (d) No later than 30 days after the deadline described in
330	330	13 subsection (a), or after receiving a notice as described in
331	331	14 subsection (a), the covered platform shall send a reply notice
332	332	15 to the authorized representative identified in subsection (b)
333	333	16 to acknowledge the receipt of the notice.
334	334	17 (e) A covered platform that receives as described in
335	335	18 paragraph (b) may, within 30 days after receiving the notice,
336	336	19 challenge:
337	337	20 (1) the sufficiency of the notice; and
338	338	21 (2) the noticing party's qualification as an eligible
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340	340	23 Section 20. Compensation methods. A covered platform
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342	342	25 (1) annually compensate digital journalism providers
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353	353	1 for accessing the websites of the digital journalism
354	354	2 providers, with the compensation annually adjusted for
355	355	3 increases in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban
356	356	4 Consumers for all items published by the United States
357	357	5 Department of Labor and annually distributed to the
358	358	6 digital journalism providers as follows:
359	359	7 (A) no less than 1% of this amount shall be paid to
360	360	8 digital journalism providers that would receive less
361	361	9 than $25,000 under paragraph (B), to be distributed
362	362	10 annually on a pro rate basis among those digital
363	363	11 journalism providers, in addition to the amount those
364	364	12 digital journalism providers would receive under to
365	365	13 paragraph (B); and
366	366	14 (B) proportionally by the number of news
367	367	15 journalists and, subject to Section 35, freelancers,
368	368	16 who, in the previous calendar year, were employed by
369	369	17 each qualifying publication for the purpose of
370	370	18 producing content in Illinois that was accessed by a
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372	372	20 (2) participate in a final arbitration process as
373	373	21 described in Section 25 and fully pay the arbitration
374	374	22 award, if any, within 30 days after the award.
375	375	23 Section 23. Distributions.
376	376	24 (a) A covered platform shall make distributions as
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388	388	1 (1) selecting an approved claims administrator. In
389	389	2 selecting an approved claims administrator the covered
390	390	3 platform shall ensure that the approved claims
391	391	4 administrator is well-qualified to perform the
392	392	5 distribution and has administered multiple settlements in
393	393	6 the State of Illinois that comply with complex civil
394	394	7 litigation class action settlement guidelines in at least
395	395	8 2 State or federal courts in Illinois. The costs of
396	396	9 selecting an approved claims administrator to administer
397	397	10 the distributions shall be in addition to the amount
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399	399	12 (2) distributing payments to digital journalism
400	400	13 providers itself, the costs of which shall be in addition
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402	402	15 (b) A final arbitration award under Section 25 to a
403	403	16 jointly participating group of digital journalism providers
404	404	17 shall be distributed proportionally by the number of news
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406	406	19 the previous calendar year, were employed by each qualifying
407	407	20 publication for the purpose of producing content in Illinois
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409	409	22 Section 25. Arbitration.
410	410	23 (a) The percentage of the covered platform's advertising
411	411	24 revenue remitted to notifying eligible digital journalism
412	412	25 providers shall be determined as described in this Section.
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423	423	1 Eligible digital journalism providers shall jointly
424	424	2 participate in the final-offer arbitration process described
425	425	3 in this Section with each covered platform to determine a
426	426	4 single percentage of advertising revenue from which the
427	427	5 distributions described in Section 23 will be allotted.
428	428	6 (b) Within 10 days after the receipt of the reply notice
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430	430	8 journalism provider may initiate, under Rule R-4 of the
431	431	9 American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitration
432	432	10 Rules and Mediation Procedures, a final-offer arbitration
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434	434	12 determine the percentage of the covered platform's advertising
435	435	13 revenue remitted to the notifying eligible digital journalism
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437	437	15 (c) The arbitration procedure authorized by this
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439	439	17 reply notice described in subsection (d) of Section 15.
440	440	18 (d) The arbitration procedure authorized by this
441	441	19 subsection shall be decided by a panel of 3 arbitrators under
442	442	20 the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitration
443	443	21 Rules and Mediation Procedures and the American Arbitration
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445	445	23 Offer Arbitration Supplementary Rules, except to the extent
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447	447	25 (e) The covered platform and the eligible digital
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459	459	1 administering the arbitration proceeding, including arbitrator
460	460	2 compensation, expenses, and administrative fees.
461	461	3 (f) The arbitrators shall be appointed in accordance with
462	462	4 the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitration
463	463	5 Rules and Mediation Procedures.
464	464	6 (g) During a final-offer arbitration proceeding under this
465	465	7 Section, all of the following shall apply:
466	466	8 (1) Eligible digital journalism providers and the
467	467	9 covered platform may demand the production of documents
468	468	10 and information that are non-privileged, reasonably
469	469	11 necessary, and reasonably accessible without undue
470	470	12 expense. Documents and information shall be exchanged no
471	471	13 later than 30 days after the date the demand is filed.
472	472	14 (2) Rules regarding the admissibility of evidence
473	473	15 under the American Arbitration Association's Commercial
474	474	16 Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures shall apply.
475	475	17 (3) Eligible digital journalism providers and the
476	476	18 covered platform shall each submit a final-offer proposal
477	477	19 for the remuneration that the eligible digital journalism
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479	479	21 access to the content of the eligible digital journalism
480	480	22 providers during the period under arbitration based on the
481	481	23 value that access provides to the platform. The
482	482	24 final-offer proposals shall include backup materials
483	483	25 sufficient to permit the other party to replicate the
484	484	26 proffered valuation.
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495	495	1 (4) A final-offer proposal under this Section shall
496	496	2 not address whether or how the covered platform or any
497	497	3 eligible digital journalism provider displays, ranks,
498	498	4 distributes, suppresses, promotes, throttles, labels,
499	499	5 filters, or curates the content of the eligible digital
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501	501	7 (h) No later than 60 days after the date proceedings begin
502	502	8 as described in subsection (c), the arbitration panel shall
503	503	9 determine the percentage of the covered platform's advertising
504	504	10 revenue remitted to notifying eligible digital journalism
505	505	11 providers from a final offer from one of the parties without
506	506	12 modification.
507	507	13 (1) In making a determination, the arbitration panel
508	508	14 shall:
509	509	15 (A) refrain from considering any value conferred
510	510	16 upon any eligible digital journalism provider by the
511	511	17 covered platform for distributing or aggregating its
512	512	18 content as an offset to the value created by that
513	513	19 eligible digital journalism provider, unless the
514	514	20 covered platform does not automatically access and
515	515	21 extract information from an eligible digital
516	516	22 journalism provider's website;
517	517	23 (B) consider past incremental revenue
518	518	24 contributions as a guide to the future incremental
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532	532	2 any available, comparable commercial agreements
533	533	3 between parties granting access to digital content,
534	534	4 including pricing, terms, and conditions relating to
535	535	5 price, duration, territory, and the value of data
536	536	6 generated directly or indirectly by the content
537	537	7 accounting for any material disparities in negotiating
538	538	8 power between the parties to those commercial
539	539	9 agreements;
540	540	10 (D) if submitted with a final-offer proposal,
541	541	11 consider the eligible digital journalism provider's
542	542	12 previous compliance with Section 40, if applicable;
543	543	13 and
544	544	14 (E) issue a standard binding arbitration award of
545	545	15 the percentage of the covered platform's advertising
546	546	16 revenue remitted to notifying eligible digital
547	547	17 journalism providers.
548	548	18 (2) Any party to the arbitration proceeding may elect
549	549	19 to appeal the decision of the arbitration panel as
550	550	20 described in subsection (j) on the grounds of a procedural
551	551	21 irregularity.
552	552	22 (i) If the covered platform and any eligible digital
553	553	23 journalism providers have given notice under Section 15 reach
554	554	24 a settlement in lieu of arbitration, the settlement shall not
555	555	25 waive the eligible digital journalism provider's obligations
556	556	26 as described in Section 40 and shall not settle for an amount
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567	567	1 other than the final-offer proposals submitted by the parties
568	568	2 as described in paragraph (3) of subsection (g).
569	569	3 (j) No fewer than 24 months after the end of an arbitration
570	570	4 proceeding, any party to the proceeding may elect to restart
571	571	5 the arbitration process.
572	572	6 Section 30. Non-retaliation.
573	573	7 (a) A covered platform shall not retaliate against an
574	574	8 eligible digital journalism provider for asserting its rights
575	575	9 under this Act by refusing to index content or changing the
576	576	10 ranking, identification, modification, branding, or placement
577	577	11 of the content of the eligible digital journalism provider on
578	578	12 the covered platform.
579	579	13 (b) An eligible digital journalism provider that is
580	580	14 retaliated against may bring a civil action against the
581	581	15 covered platform.
582	582	16 (c) This Section does not prohibit a covered platform
583	583	17 from, and does not impose liability on a covered platform for,
584	584	18 enforcing its terms of service against an eligible journalism
585	585	19 provider.
586	586	20 Section 35. Funding for journalists and support staff.
587	587	21 (a) An eligible digital journalism provider shall spend at
588	588	22 least 70% of funds received under this Act on news journalists
589	589	23 and support staff employed by the eligible digital journalism
590	590	24 provider, except that an eligible digital journalism provider
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601	601	1 with 5 or fewer employees shall spend at least 50% of funds
602	602	2 received under this Act on news journalists and support staff
603	603	3 employed by the eligible digital journalism provider.
604	604	4 (b) No later than 30 days after the end of an arbitration
605	605	5 proceeding described in Section 25 or upon reaching a
606	606	6 settlement in lieu of an arbitration proceeding, the eligible
607	607	7 digital journalism provider shall provide notification in
608	608	8 writing of its plan to comply with subsection (a) to the news
609	609	9 journalists and support staff employed by the eligible digital
610	610	10 journalism provider and any representatives of those news
611	611	11 journalists or support staff.
612	612	12 (c) The eligible digital journalism provider's plan to
613	613	13 comply with subsection (a) shall include a good faith estimate
614	614	14 of the number of news journalists and support staff, if any,
615	615	15 expected to be hired, details regarding proposed compensation
616	616	16 adjustments, if any, and a disclosure if either hiring or
617	617	17 compensation adjustments are not expected.
618	618	18 Section 40. Reporting requirements.
619	619	19 (a) No later than one year after the end of an arbitration
620	620	20 proceeding described in Section 25 or reaching a settlement in
621	621	21 lieu of an arbitration proceeding, and each year thereafter,
622	622	22 the eligible digital journalism provider shall compile a
623	623	23 report that includes:
624	624	24 (1) an attestation as to whether the eligible digital
625	625	25 journalism provider has complied with subsection (a) of
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637	637	2 (2) the text of the digital journalism provider's plan
638	638	3 to comply with subsection (a) of Section 35;
639	639	4 (3) the total number of journalism usage fees received
640	640	5 from covered platforms;
641	641	6 (4) the name of each covered platform paying the
642	642	7 eligible digital journalism provider a journalism usage
643	643	8 fee and a description of how the eligible digital
644	644	9 journalism provider spent the journalism usage fee
645	645	10 payment, including any amount of journalism usage fees
646	646	11 remaining unspent; and
647	647	12 (5) the total number of news journalists and support
648	648	13 staff employed by the eligible digital journalism
649	649	14 provider, including the number of news journalists and
650	650	15 support staff hired or terminated during the previous
651	651	16 year.
652	652	17 (b) No later than one year after the end of an arbitration
653	653	18 proceeding described in Section 25 or reaching a settlement in
654	654	19 lieu of an arbitration proceeding, and each year thereafter,
655	655	20 the eligible digital journalism provider shall publish a copy
656	656	21 of the report described in subsection (a) online in a
657	657	22 text-searchable format and provide a copy to the news
658	658	23 journalists and support staff employed by the eligible digital
659	659	24 journalism provider, any representatives of those news
660	660	25 journalists or support staff, and the covered platforms paying
661	661	26 journalism usage fees to the eligible digital journalism
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673	673	2 Section 45. Preservation of rights.
674	674	3 (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as amending or
675	675	4 repealing the ability of an eligible digital journalism
676	676	5 provider or a covered platform to seek a preliminary or
677	677	6 permanent injunction or any other existing remedy at law or
678	678	7 equity.
679	679	8 (b) This Act does not modify, impair, expand, or in any way
680	680	9 alter rights pertaining to the federal Lanham Act (15 U.S.C.
681	681	10 1051 et seq).
682	682	11 (c) This Act does not abridge or impair rights otherwise
683	683	12 reserved by news journalists, support staff, or their
684	684	13 representatives according to applicable law or existing
685	685	14 collective bargaining agreements.
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