By: Hughes S.B. No. 751
(In the Senate - Filed February 11, 2019; March 1, 2019,
read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
April 8, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 9,
Nays 0; April 8, 2019, sent to printer.)
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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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