S 8952 — Relates to disclosures by sellers of digital goods
Congress · introduced 2026-01-21
Prohibits a seller of a digital good from advertising or offering for sale a digital good to a purchaser with the terms "buy," "purchase," or any other term which a reasonable person would understand to confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good, or alongside an option for a time-limited rental, unless the seller receives at the time of each transaction an affirmative acknowledgment from the purchaser, or the seller provides to the consumer before executing each transaction a clear and conspicuous statement.
Latest action: 2026-01-21 — IN_SENATE_COMM
Sponsors
- Patricia Fahy (—, NY-46) — sponsor · 2026-01-21
Action timeline
- · senate — REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
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Inbound (1)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-21 | Patricia Fahy | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
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.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patricia Fahy (—, state_upper NY-46) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
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
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- 2026-01-21 · sponsored by Patricia Fahy (sponsor) · sponsorship