An Act enhancing disclosure requirements for synthetic media in political advertising
Filed by Bradley H. Jones, Jr. · 4 cosponsors · 194th General Court · the legislature's own page
H846 · Bill · docket HD3373
10 actions
In the order the legislature recorded them.
| Date | Branch | Action |
|---|
| 2025-02-27 | House | Referred to the committee on Election Laws |
| 2025-02-27 | Senate | Senate concurred |
| 2025-06-27 | Joint | Hearing scheduled for 07/08/2025 from 01:00 PM-04:00 PM in B-1 |
| 2025-09-02 | House | Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 2026-02-11 | House | Committee recommended bill ought to pass and referred to the committee on House Ways and Means |
| 2026-02-11 | House | Committee recommended ought to pass with an amendment, substituting therefor a bill with the same title, see H5094 |
| 2026-02-11 | House | Referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling with the amendment pending |
| 2026-02-11 | House | Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting for a second reading with the amendment pending |
| 2026-02-11 | House | Read second, amended (as recommended by the committee on House Ways and Means) |
| 2026-02-11 | House | New draft substituted, see H5094 |
1 amendments filed
1 adopted
| No. | Title | Moved by | Outcome |
|---|
| House 1 | An Act enhancing disclosure requirements for synthetic media in political advertising | House Committee on Ways and Means | Adopted |
2 committee votes
Election Laws (J) · 2025-08-13 15:40 · Poll/Vote
Ways and Means (H) · 2026-02-10 10:45 · H.846“An Act enhancing disclosure requirements for synthetic media in political advertising” as amended
Positions are the four the committee itself records. Reserving a right is not an abstention and no action is not an absence.
Public hearing
House Rule 27 counts its reporting deadline from the day a bill is heard.
| Date | Committee | Where | Status |
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| 2025-07-08 | Election Laws (J) | B-1, 24 Beacon Street, Boston | Completed |
Committee actions
Cosponsors
In the order filed.
Every action here is as the legislature published it. A bill that drew no recorded vote is the ordinary case: the House records roughly 150 a year.