Panel reviews proposed committee amendments to S.23, the Synthetic Media and Elections bill

The Government Operations & Military Affairs Committee reviewed a set of proposed committee amendments to S.23, the Synthetic Media and Elections bill, after taking testimony. Rick Segal, Office of Legislative Council, presented five suggested changes intended to narrow or clarify disclosure and enforcement provisions in the bill as it passed the Senate.

Segal said the first change would alter the required font-size standard for a disclosure that must accompany "deceptive and fraudulent synthetic media consisting of images and video recordings." He described the existing provision and the proposed adjustment: the bill's Senate-passed text required the disclosure to be "in a size that is easily readable by the average viewer" and also said it be "not smaller than the largest font size of other text appearing in the visual media." Segal said the amendment would put a…