{"id":203351,"date":"2026-04-08T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-on-campaign-robocalls\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T21:05:10","slug":"louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-on-campaign-robocalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-on-campaign-robocalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana lawmakers advance bill requiring AI disclosure on campaign robocalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-campaign-robocalls\/\">Louisiana lawmakers advance bill requiring AI disclosure on campaign robocalls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-campaign-robocalls\/\">https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-campaign-robocalls\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-08 16:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kplctv.com\">www.kplctv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a bill requiring AI-generated campaign robocalls to disclose that they were created using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Supporters say this measure aims to protect voters and candidates as AI becomes more prevalent in politics and harder to detect.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>House Bill 639 would mandate a \u201cclear and understandable disclosure\u201d at the start of AI-generated campaign phone calls.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The bill also would require disclosures on paid political materials created with AI. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Violations regarding AI-generated campaign calls could result in civil fines of up to $2,500 for the first offense and $5,000 for repeat violations.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>There are additional criminal penalties for other AI-related campaign ad violations, including up to two years in prison and a $2,000 fine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The bill cleared committee and now moves to the full House.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lawmakers are expressing concern that AI tools are becoming sophisticated, which raises the potential for AI to mimic candidates or officials in campaign messaging ahead of the 2027 election cycle.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana lawmakers advance bill requiring AI disclosure on campaign robocalls https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/04\/08\/louisiana-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-ai-disclosure-campaign-robocalls\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-08 16:54:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-kplc-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/4H32XTA7X5BRBIECWA4K5NW4TE.jpg?auth=b71cf9affc2f747d97163d2c2714e722e133f8cdf7781d03a5262a14319cd0b4&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203353,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203351\/revisions\/203353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}