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S 8420Relates to requiring advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer

Congress · introduced 2025-06-10

Requires advertisements to disclose the use of a synthetic performer; imposes a $1,000 civil penalty for a first violation and a $5,000 penalty for any subsequent violation.

Latest action: 2025-12-11 SIGNED_BY_GOV

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO RULES
  2. · senate AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO RULES
  3. · senate PRINT NUMBER 8420A
  4. · senate ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2028
  5. · senate PASSED SENATE
  6. · senate DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
  7. · assembly REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
  8. · assembly SUBSTITUTED FOR A8887B
  9. · assembly ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.701
  10. · assembly PASSED ASSEMBLY
  11. · assembly RETURNED TO SENATE
  12. · senate DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
  13. · senate SIGNED CHAP.617

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datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-06-10Michael Gianarissponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Michael Gianaris (, state_upper NY-12)sponsor05

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-06-10 · sponsored by Michael Gianaris (sponsor) · sponsorship

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