Bill > H0846

Introduced Session

This bill proposes to define “high- traffic online platform,” to require high-traffic online platforms to block the posting of materially deceptive content related to elections in Vermont during specified periods before and after an election, and to require these platforms to appropriately label inauthentic, synthetic, or false content during specified periods before and after an election in Vermont. This bill also proposes to prohibit a person, committee, or other entity from knowingly distributing an advertisement or other election communication that contains materially deceptive content with malice within 120 days before an election in Vermont. This bill also proposes to authorize a recipient of materially deceptive content, H.846 elections official, or candidate or committee participating in the election to file a civil action to enjoin the distribution of the deceptive media and to seek damages against the person, committee, or other entity that distributed it. This bill also proposes to require a committee that creates, publishes, or distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a specified disclosure whenever the advertisement was generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence.

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Brian Cina (D)*,  Angela Arsenault (D),  Elizabeth Burrows (D),  Wendy Critchlow (D),  Gina Galfetti (R),  Kate Logan (D),  Jubilee McGill (D),  Woody Page (R),  Phil Pouech (D),  Monique Priestley (D),  Barbara Rachelson (D),  Laura Sibilia (I), 

Read first time and referred to the Committee on Government Operations and Military Affairs (on 01/30/2026)

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