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      A10715

2025-2026 Legislative Session Prohibits distribution or publishing any political communication that was produced by or includes materially deceptive media

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Current Committee: Assembly Codes Law Section: Election Law Laws Affected: Amd §14-106, El L

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Prohibits distribution or publishing any political communication that was produced by or includes materially deceptive media.

2025-A10715

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      - Bill Text [download pdf](https://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/a10715)

S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K

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                               10715

                       I N  A S S E M B L Y

                          March 27, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law

AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the use of non-consen-
sual materially deceptive media prior to an election

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 14-106 of the election law, as
added by section 1 of subpart B of part MM of chapter 58 of the laws of
2024 and paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of 2024, is
amended to read as follows:
5. (a) For purposes of this subdivision:
(i) "Materially deceptive media" means any image, video, audio, text,
or any technological representation of speech or conduct fully or
partially created or modified that:
(1) exhibits a high level of authenticity or convincing appearance
that is visually or audibly indistinguishable from reality to a reason-
able person;
(2) depicts a scenario that did not actually occur or that has been
altered in a significant way from how [they] IT actually occurred; and
(3) is created by or with software, machine learning, artificial
intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means,
including adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering a realistic
depiction.
(ii) "Information content provider" means any person or entity that is
responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of
information provided through the Internet or any other interactive
computer service.
(b) (i) A person, firm, association, corporation, campaign, committee,
or organization that distributes or publishes any political communi-
cation that was produced by or includes materially deceptive media and
has actual knowledge that it is materially deceptive shall be required
to disclose this use.
(ii) (1) For visual media the disclosure shall be printed or typed in
a legible font size easily readable by the average viewer that is no

EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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