Pennsylvania HB 2534: An Act providing for the disclosure of communicable diseases in certain facilities during disaster emergencies.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 3431
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2534
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY ORTITAY, CIRESI, VENKAT, PICKETT, POWELL, RIVERA,
HOWARD AND SANCHEZ, MAY 26, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY,
MAY 26, 2026
AN ACT
Providing for artificial intelligence transparency, for duties
of covered providers of generative artificial intelligence
systems and for large online platforms and generative
artificial intelligence system hosting platforms; and
imposing a penalty.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Artificial
Intelligence Transparency Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Artificial intelligence." A machine-based system that can,
for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions,
recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual
environments. The term includes:
(1) Systems that use machine and human-based inputs to
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perceive real and virtual environments, abstract perceptions
into models through analysis in an automated manner and use
model inference to formulate options for information or
action.
(2) Generative artificial intelligence.
"Consumer." An individual residing in this Commonwealth.
"Covered provider." An entity that creates, codes or
otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence system
that has more than 1,000,000 monthly active users and is
publicly accessible within this Commonwealth.
"Digital signature." A cryptography-based method that
identifies the user that attests to the information provided in
the signed section.
"Generative artificial intelligence." The class of models
that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data in
order to generate derived synthetic digital content, including
information such as images, videos, audio clips or text, that
has been significantly modified or generated by algorithms,
including by artificial intelligence.
"Generative artificial intelligence system." Artificial
intelligence that incorporates generative artificial
intelligence.
"Generative artificial intelligence system hosting platform."
A publicly accessible Internet website or application that makes
available for download the source code or model weights of a
generative artificial intelligence system to a person in this
Commonwealth, regardless of whether the terms of that use
include compensation.
"Large online platform." The following:
(1) A public-facing social media platform, file sharing
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platform, mass messaging platform or stand-alone search
engine that distributes digital content to users who did not
create or collaborate in creating the digital content that
exceeded 2,000,000 unique monthly users during the preceding
12 months.
(2) The term does not include:
(i) A provider of broadband Internet access service
as defined in 47 CFR 8.1(b) (relating to transparency).
(ii) A provider of telecommunications service as
defined in 47 U.S.C. § 153(53) (relating to definitions).
"Latent disclosure." Information embedded in or linked from
digital content that indicates the origin of the digital content
and the manner in which it was generated or altered by
artificial intelligence.
"Manifest disclosure." A visible disclosure that informs an
individual that the digital content has been created or altered
by artificial intelligence.
"Mass messaging platform." A direct messaging platform that
allows users to distribute digital content to more than 100
users simultaneously.
"Metadata." The structural or descriptive information about
data.
"Personal information." Any information that is linked or
reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual.
"Personal provenance data." Any provenance data that
contains either of the following:
(1) Personal information.
(2) Unique device, system or service information that is
reasonably capable of being associated with a particular
user.
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"Provenance data." Any data that is embedded into digital
content or that is included in the digital content's metadata
for the purpose of verifying the digital content's authenticity,
origin or history of modification.
"System provenance data." Any provenance data that is not
reasonably capable of being associated with a particular user
and that contains either of the following:
(1) Information regarding the type of device, system or
service that was used to generate a piece of digital content.
(2) Information related to digital content authenticity.
Section 3. Covered providers.
(a) Detection tool.--A covered provider sha