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Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimers Act

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require a disclaimer for certain communications paid for by a political committee, and for other purposes.

Introduced Jul 27, 2026

Latest action (Jul 27, 2026) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Referred to
Rules and Administration Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Technology & Privacy

Summary
  • Political committees must include clear disclaimers when paying people to post content on social media or digital platforms, stating the communication was paid for by the political committee.
  • Disclaimers must be readily legible for text and visual communications, or clearly audible for audio communications.
  • Political committees must notify people being paid about the disclaimer requirement at the time of payment.
  • The requirement does not apply to content posted on a political committee's own website or to compensated employees posting on their own social media, unless that employee's main job is posting such content.
  • The Federal Election Commission must create implementing regulations by January 1, 2027, with the rules taking effect that same date.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)

Actions (2)
  1. Jul 27, 2026 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. · senate
  2. Jul 27, 2026 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 9110 — Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimers Act · Introduced Jun 2, 2026 · Cong. 119 88%
  • HR 6571 — REAL Act · Introduced Dec 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 3991 — DISCLOSE Act of 2026 · Introduced Mar 4, 2026 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 9922 — AI Transparency in Elections Act of 2026 · Introduced Jul 23, 2026 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 8720 — Campaign Finance Transparency Act · Introduced Jul 13, 2026 · Cong. 119 62%
  • S 2912 — Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 61%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in Senate · Jul 27, 2026

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

July 27, 2026

Mr. Schiff introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

A BILL

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require a disclaimer for certain communications paid for by a political committee, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Promoting Authenticity with Influencer Disclaimers Act”.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING DISCLAIMERS ON CERTAIN COMMUNICATIONS.

(a) Requirement.—Section 318 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30120) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(e) Special Disclaimer for Certain Communications.—

“(1) Requirement.—Whenever a political committee makes a disbursement for the purpose of financing any communication by a person to post content on an internet website, web application, or digital application, such communication shall state in a clear and conspicuous manner that the communication has been paid for by such political committee.

“(2) Clear and conspicuous manner.—A statement required under this subsection shall be considered to be made in a clear and conspicuous manner if the statement meets the following requirements:

“(A) Audiovisual, text, or graphic communication.—In the case of an audiovisual, text, or graphic communication, the statement is readily legible to an average viewer.

“(B) Audio only communications.—In the case of an audio communication, the statement is spoken in a clearly audible and intelligible manner.

“(3) Notification requirement.—A political committee described under paragraph (1) shall notify the person to whom the disbursement is made of the requirement under paragraph (1) at the time such disbursement is made for the communication.

“(4) Exception.—

“(A) In general.—This subsection shall not apply to—

“(i) content posted on a political committee’s own website; or

“(ii) content posted by a compensated employee of a committee on the employee’s own social media page or account where the only expense or cost of the communication is compensated staff time.

“(B) Special rule.—This exception shall not apply if the compensated employee’s principal duties are to post content on their own social media page or account.

“(5) Regulations.—Not later than January 1, 2027, the Commission shall promulgate regulations to carry out this subsection.”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to communications made on or after January 1, 2027, and shall take effect without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated regulations to carry out such amendments. <all>

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