On the recordJune 15, 2022
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S. 4409 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 ``Political Bias In Algorithm Sorting Emails Act of 2022'' or the ``Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022''. SEC. 2. UNFAIR AND DECEPTIVE ACTS AND PRACTICES RELATING TO FILTERING POLITICAL EMAILS THAT A CONSUMER HAS ELECTED TO RECEIVE. (a) Conduct Prohibited.-- (1) In general.--It shall be unlawful for an operator of an email service to use a filtering algorithm to apply a label to an email sent to an email account from a political campaign unless the owner or user of the account took action to apply such a label. (2) Effective date.--The prohibition under subsection (1) shall take effect on the date that is 3 months after the date of enactment of this Act. (b) Quarterly Transparency Report.-- (1) In general.--Beginning with the first year that begins on or after the date that is 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each operator of an email service shall be required to make publicly available, on a quarterly basis, a transparency report that meets the requirements of this subsection.…
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