AI Labeling Act of 2026 (S. 4915)

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jurisdiction: US-Federal
level: federal
domain: transparency
status: proposed
scope: Federal bill requiring providers of generative AI systems to attach both a visible disclosure and a machine-readable disclosure to AI-generated audio, video, and image content, and requiring large online platforms to flag such content and refrain from stripping out disclosures.
obligations: Requires generative AI providers to attach a visible disclosure and a machine-readable disclosure (recording the system used and creation time) to AI-generated audio, video, or image content; requires large online platforms (reported by secondary sources, not independently verified against bill text by this agent, as platforms with at least 10 million monthly US users or more than 1.5 billion USD in annual revenue) to flag AI-generated content and prohibits them from stripping out disclosures; directs NIST to convene a working group to set technical standards for labeling and detecting AI-generated content, including future study of other formats such as text; FTC enforcement.
penalties: Not confirmed from sources reviewed; leaving unknown rather than guessing.
appliesTo: Providers of generative AI systems that produce audio, video, or image content; large online platforms hosting such content
officialUrl: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119s4915is
notes: Introduced by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), with Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Warner (D-VA) as cosponsors, on June 24, 2026 (confirmed via GovInfo's official bill-status record, BILLS-119s4915, S. 4915, 119th Congress), roughly five weeks before this run's nominal 2026-07-28 discovery-window start. Surfacing anyway because it is untracked, real, and in scope: a federal, cross-platform AI-content-labeling mandate, referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Distinct from ca-sb942 (California AI Transparency Act, which requires a provider-side free detection tool and manifest/latent disclosures under California law only) and from ny-synthetic-performer-disclosure (New York, advertising-specific synthetic-performer disclosure): this is a federal bill covering AI-generated audio, video, or image content broadly, not limited to advertising or to a single state. A prior version of this bill (also called the AI Labeling Act) was first introduced by Sens. Schatz and Kennedy in 2023 and did not become law; this is treated as a materially re-introduced 2026 bill, not the same tracked entity, because it is not currently in the baseline at all. The large-online-platform monthly-user/revenue threshold and FTC-enforcement details in the obligations field are drawn from secondary reporting; this agent's fetch tools returned only the bill-status summary and sponsor press releases, not the full bill text, so those specifics remain unconfirmed against primary text.

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jurisdiction

US-Federal

level

federal

domain

transparency

status

proposed

scope

Federal bill requiring providers of generative AI systems to attach both a visible disclosure and a machine-readable disclosure to AI-generated audio, video, and image content, and requiring large online platforms to flag such content and refrain from stripping out disclosures.

obligations

Requires generative AI providers to attach a visible disclosure and a machine-readable disclosure (recording the system used and creation time) to AI-generated audio, video, or image content; requires large online platforms (reported by secondary sources, not independently verified against bill text by this agent, as platforms with at least 10 million monthly US users or more than 1.5 billion USD in annual revenue) to flag AI-generated content and prohibits them from stripping out disclosures; directs NIST to convene a working group to set technical standards for labeling and detecting AI-generated content, including future study of other formats such as text; FTC enforcement.

penalties

Not confirmed from sources reviewed; leaving unknown rather than guessing.

appliesTo

Providers of generative AI systems that produce audio, video, or image content; large online platforms hosting such content

officialUrl

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/BILLS-119s4915is

notes

Introduced by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), with Sens. John Curtis (R-UT) and Mark Warner (D-VA) as cosponsors, on June 24, 2026 (confirmed via GovInfo's official bill-status record, BILLS-119s4915, S. 4915, 119th Congress), roughly five weeks before this run's nominal 2026-07-28 discovery-window start. Surfacing anyway because it is untracked, real, and in scope: a federal, cross-platform AI-content-labeling mandate, referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Distinct from ca-sb942 (California AI Transparency Act, which requires a provider-side free detection tool and manifest/latent disclosures under California law only) and from ny-synthetic-performer-disclosure (New York, advertising-specific synthetic-performer disclosure): this is a federal bill covering AI-generated audio, video, or image content broadly, not limited to advertising or to a single state. A prior version of this bill (also called the AI Labeling Act) was first introduced by Sens. Schatz and Kennedy in 2023 and did not become law; this is treated as a materially re-introduced 2026 bill, not the same tracked entity, because it is not currently in the baseline at all. The large-online-platform monthly-user/revenue threshold and FTC-enforcement details in the obligations field are drawn from secondary reporting; this agent's fetch tools returned only the bill-status summary and sponsor press releases, not the full bill text, so those specifics remain unconfirmed against primary text.