Law / United States / 
Louisiana
Act 806 (HB 459), AI-manipulated electioneering communication disclosure
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Place of effect
- Obligation class
- Content labelling
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Before distributing an electioneering communication that portrays a candidate or an elected official subject to recall and that was created, altered, or digitally manipulated using artificial intelligence in a way that would falsely appear to be an authentic record of that person's actual speech or conduct, give a clear and understandable disclosure that artificial intelligence was used.
- A media entity that broadcasts a paid political communication it had no input into or control over is not liable under this Section.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-07Human-AI Configuration
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI09Human-Agent Trust Exploitation
- MIT mitigations Draft
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If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
Violating this Section with the intent to injure a candidate's or elected official's reputation, or otherwise to deceive a voter, is punishable by a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment with or without hard labor for not more than two years, or both.
Penalty structure
The $2,000 figure is a criminal fine that may accompany imprisonment of up to two years, with or without hard labor, or both; it is not a civil or administrative penalty.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 2,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
The disclosure duty runs to the audience of the electioneering communication itself, at the moment it is distributed. Nothing in subsections (F) through (I) requires the sponsor, the medium, or any other person to keep a log, record, or file of a communication's creation, its AI use, or the disclosure given.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
No person may make or cause to be made an electioneering communication that portrays a candidate for elective office or an elected official subject to recall and that is created, altered, or digitally manipulated using artificial intelligence in a manner that would falsely appear to a reasonable observer to be an authentic record of that person's actual speech or conduct, without a clear and understandable disclosure that it was created using artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence is defined by cross-reference to R.S. 14:73.14. A media entity that broadcasts a paid political communication over which it had no input or control is exempt. Signed by Governor Landry on as Act 806 and in effect since ; a substantially similar bill, SB 97 of the 2024 Regular Session, passed both chambers but was vetoed by the Governor on .
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