AB 73 — Establishes requirements for certain communications relating to an election. (BDR 24-487)

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73–COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE OPERATIONS AND E LECTIONS (ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF S TATE) PREFILED N OVEMBER 20, 2024 ____________ Referred to Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections SUMMARY—Establishes requirements for certain communications relating to an election.

(BDR 24-487) FISCAL NOTE:

Effect on Local Government:

No.

Effect on the State:

Yes.

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Existing law requires that certain statements and communications relating to an election contain disclosures to provide the public with certain information relating to the source or purpose of the statement or communication.

(1) requires that any communication made or paid for by a person, candidate, personal campaign committee of a candidate, committee for political action or committee sponsored by a political party that is in support of or opposition to a candidate, group of candidates or political partyparty, or that includesprovides anyinformation formabout ofpolitical syntheticor mediasocial inissues with the communicationintent mustto discloseinfluence the outcome of an election or that thehatsolicits image,contributions videofor a candidate, group of candidates or audiopolitical hasparty beenthat includes any form of synthetic manipulated;

and (2) authorizes a candidate who is depicted in any such has been communication that fails to include such a disclosure to seek an injunction or equitable relief in a district court against certain parties that made or paid for the communication.

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THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Any communication made or paid for by a person, organization, candidate, personal campaign committee of a candidate, committee for political action or committee sponsored by a political party that is made in support of or opposition to a candidate, group of candidates or political partyparty, that provides information about political or social issues with the intent to influence the outcome of an election or that solicits contributions for a candidate, group of candidates or political party and includes any form of synthetic media in the communication must disclose on the communication in a clear and conspicuous manner:

2.- 83rd Session (2025) – 2 – provided in accordance with the following requirements:

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(a) For a communication made using visual media that is a video, the disclosure must appear for the entire duration of the video;

includes3. synthetic media and which communication fails to that include the disclosure required pursuant to subsection 1 may seek an injunction or other equitable relief in district court against the person, candidate, personal campaign committee of a candidate, committee for political action or committee sponsored by a political party who made or paid for the communication.

Any candidate who is depicted in any communication that includes synthetic media and which communication fails to include the disclosure required pursuant to subsection 1 may seek person, candidate, personal campaign committee of a candidate,nst the committee for political action or committee sponsored by a political party who made or paid for the communication.

(a) Any streaming service, interactive computer service provider, cloud service provider or internet service provider;

- *AB73_R1* – 3 – (c) Any programmer or producer of radio or television broadcasting content;

(a) “Artificial intelligence” means a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers from the input it receives how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments.

(c) “Generative artificial intelligence” means a technology of artificial intelligence that is capable of creating content such as - 83rd Session (2025) – 3 – text, audio, image or video based on patterns learned from large volumes of data rather than being explicitly programmed with rules.

(d) “Interactive computer service” has the meaning ascribed to it in(e) 47“Synthetic U.S.C.media” means an image, audio recording or video recording of the appearance, speech or conduct of a person that has been intentionally manipulated with the use of generative adversarial network techniques, artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence to create a realistic but false image, audio recording or video recording that produces:

§ 230(f)(2).

(e) “Synthetic media” means an image, audio recording or video recording of the appearance, speech or conduct of a person that has been intentionally manipulated with the use of generative adversarial network techniques, artificial intelligence or generative artificial intelligence to create a realistic but false image, audio recording or video recording that produces:

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