Steve Lynch: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 54, insert after line 14 the following: Subtitle C--Prohibiting Use of Deepfakes in Election Campaigns SEC. 321. PROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALLY DECEPTIVE AUDIO OR VISUAL MEDIA PRIOR TO ELECTION. (a) In General.--Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.), as amended by section 203, is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``SEC. 325. PROHIBITION ON DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALLY DECEPTIVE MEDIA PRIOR TO ELECTION. ``(a) In General.--Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), a person, political committee, or other entity shall not, within 60 days of a election for Federal office at which a candidate for elective office will appear on the ballot, distribute, with actual malice, materially deceptive audio or visual media of the candidate with the intent to injure the candidate's reputation or to deceive a voter into voting for or against the candidate. ``(b) Exception.-- ``(1) Required language.--The prohibition in subsection (a) does not apply if the audio or visual media includes-- ``(A) a disclosure stating: ``This _____ has been manipulated.''; and ``(B) filled in the blank in the disclosure under subparagraph (A), the term `image', `video', or `audio', as most accurately describes the media.…”