Florida House Bill 919

• Authority: Florida
• Parent authority: State governments
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. state and local documents
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-04-26

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• False or misleading information
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document primarily addresses risks related to malicious actors using AI for disinformation and fraud (subdomains 4.1 and 4.3), with minimal coverage of misinformation risks (3.1). The focus is narrowly on generative AI use in political advertising to deceive voters or injure candidates.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation primarily governs the Information sector (specifically political advertising and communications) and Public Administration excluding National Security (electoral processes and political campaigns). The regulation applies to entities creating and distributing political advertisements using generative AI.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute with mandatory compliance requirements, criminal penalties (first-degree misdemeanor), civil enforcement mechanisms through the Florida Elections Commission, and expedited hearing procedures.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Florida Legislature
• Summary: The document is a legislative act enacted by the Florida Legislature, as indicated by the standard legislative language 'Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida.'

Target

• Entity Types: AI_User, Affected_Stakeholder
• Summary: The targets are persons who pay for, sponsor, or approve political advertisements, electioneering communications, or other miscellaneous advertisements that use generative AI. These are political actors and advertisers using AI in political campaigns.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Florida Elections Commission; Division of Administrative Hearings
• Summary: The Florida Elections Commission is designated as the enforcement body with authority to receive complaints and conduct expedited hearings. The Division of Administrative Hearings provides administrative law judges for certain cases.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Florida Elections Commission
• Summary: The Florida Elections Commission monitors compliance through its complaint process and expedited hearing procedures, allowing any person to file complaints alleging violations.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document focuses exclusively on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, requiring disclaimers when generative AI content is deployed in political advertisements and establishing monitoring mechanisms through complaint procedures.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly defines and covers generative AI, focusing specifically on machine-based systems that generate synthetic content including images, videos, audio, text, and other digital content. It does not mention AI models, AI systems, frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.