Committee sends AI provenance and disclosure bill to Rules after adopting exclusions and enforcement changes

The Ways and Means Committee moved engrossed second substitute House Bill 1170 — a bill requiring provenance data on AI-created or materially altered images, audio, and video and mandating consumer notification when government entities use AI-generated content — to the Rules Committee with a due-pass recommendation after amendment votes.

Staff briefed the bill’s core provisions: covered AI providers must include provenance data that is hard to remove, and government use of AI in consumer-facing contexts must include notice that the consumer is interacting with AI. The bill allows AGO enforcement as a civil violation and (in some versions) fines up to $100,000 per covered provider for injunctive noncompliance; staff provided a fiscal estimate of roughly $200,000 one-time AGO enforcement costs for planning and initial compliance work.

Committee debate focused on carve-outs and enforcement authority. Senators offered amendments to exclude public entities and tribal nations from the definition of covered providers and to exempt certain interactive experiences such as video games or routine upscaling/compression tasks. An amendment restoring clearer authority for AGO enforcement under the Consumer Protection Act and adding tribal and local-government exemptions was adopted and rolled into a striking amendment.

The committee adopted the rolled-in amendments by voice and moved the amended bill to the Rules Committee with a due-pass recommendation. The transcript records the committee adopting amendment 19 and then voting to forward the bill; the chair announced the due-pass recommendation and noted the amendment package was rolled into a striking amendment.