Pennsylvania SB 1349: An Act designating the portion of Youngsburg Road-State Road 3043 in South Coatesville Borough, from the intersection of Modena Road to the southern border of South Coatesville Borough, as the Zachariah Walker Memorial Road.

Bill Text

PRINTER'S NO. 1767
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1349
Session of
2026
INTRODUCED BY COLLETT, HAYWOOD, TARTAGLIONE, KEARNEY, COSTA,
KANE, PISCIOTTANO AND CAPPELLETTI, JUNE 4, 2026
REFERRED TO COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY, JUNE 4, 2026
AN ACT
Providing for transparency in use of generative artificial
intelligence; requiring disclosure of synthetic content;
providing for establishment of content verification tools;
imposing duties on the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the
Office of Attorney General; and imposing penalties.
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 Digital
Provenance 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" or "AI." A machine-based system
capable of making, for a given set of human-defined objectives,
predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or
virtual environments that use machine-based and human-based
inputs to perceive real and virtual environments, abstract the
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perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner
and use model inference to formulate options for information or
action. The term includes the class of models that emulate the
structure and characteristics of input data in order to generate
derived synthetic content which includes information such as
images, videos, audio clips and text that has been significantly
modified or generated by algorithms.
"Bureau." The Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of
Attorney General.
"Capture device." A device capable of recording at least 10
photographic, audio or video content instances, including, but
not limited to, video and still photography cameras, mobile
phones with built-in cameras or microphones and voice recorders.
"Covered AI tool provider." A person that creates, codes or
otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence system
that:
(1) has more than 1,000,000 monthly visitors worldwide
or users on average over the preceding 12-month period and is
publicly accessible within the geographic boundaries of this
Commonwealth; and
(2) uses a generative artificial intelligence system to
generate, manipulate or otherwise edit audio, video and image
content.
"Generative artificial intelligence system." An artificial
intelligence system capable of generating synthetic images,
videos, audio content or any combination thereof that emulates
the structure and characteristics of the system's training data.
This definition does not include a system that generates only
text-based content.
"Large online platform." A public-facing social media
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platform, content-sharing platform, messaging platform,
advertising network, stand-alone search engine or web browser
that distributes content to users who did not create or
collaborate in creating the content that exceeded 2,000,000
unique monthly users during the preceding 12 months.
"Person." The term includes a governmental entity.
"Provenance label." A disclosure embedded in image, video or
audio content in a manner that is machine-readable.
"Provenance label reading tool." A software program,
application or other mechanism that reads a provenance label and
allows a person to determine whether an image, video or audio
content was created or altered by a specific covered AI tool
provider's generative artificial intelligence system.
"Synthetic content." Audio or visual content that has been
generated or materially altered by synthetic content creations.
Section 3. Requirements for covered AI tool providers.
(a) Provenance label reading tool.--A covered AI tool
provider shall make available, at no cost to a person, a
provenance label reading tool that:
(1) is publicly accessible through a conspicuous link on
the covered AI tool provider's publicly accessible Internet
website and any corresponding mobile application;
(2) allows a person to do either of the following:
(i) upload an image, video or audio content; or
(ii) provide an apparent Uniform Resource Locator
that links an image, video or audio content;
(3) supports access via an Application Program Interface
that allows a person to programmatically submit content for
assessment without accessing the covered AI tool provider's
publicly accessible Internet website;
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(4) provides a mechanism for a person to submit feedback
regarding the tool's efficacy which the covered AI tool
provider considers and uses to improve the tool; and
(5) does not disclose personal information that may be
contained in the provenance label, unless the disclosure is
required by