Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022
Latest action · Jun 21, 2022 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 21, 2022
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Political Bias In Algorithm Sorting Emails Act of 2022 or the Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022
This bill makes it unlawful for commercial email service providers 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 label.
Cosponsors 36
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 21, 2022 to Aug 12, 2022; 7 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-GA | A. Drew Ferguson IV | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-WA | Cathy McMorris Rodgers | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-NY | Elise M. Stefanik | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-FL | Gus M. Bilirakis | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-CA | Kevin McCarthy | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-LA | Steve Scalise | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-MN | Tom Emmer | Original | Jun 21, 2022 |
| R-NE | Adrian Smith | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-TX | August Pfluger | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-TX | Beth Van Duyne | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-FL | Carlos A. Gimenez | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-LA | Clay Higgins | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-PA | Daniel Meuser | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-CA | Darrell Issa | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-TX | Michael C. Burgess | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-OH | Mike Carey | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-TX | Randy K. Weber, Sr. | Jun 23, 2022 | |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Jun 24, 2022 | |
| R-SC | Jeff Duncan | Jun 24, 2022 | |
| R-PA | John Joyce | Jun 24, 2022 | |
| R-FL | Neal P. Dunn | Jun 24, 2022 | |
| R-PA | Guy Reschenthaler | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-SC | Joe Wilson | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-GA | Rick W. Allen | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-FL | Vern Buchanan | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-FL | W. Gregory Steube | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-NM | Yvette Herrell | Jun 28, 2022 | |
| R-AR | Eric A. "Rick" Crawford | Jul 12, 2022 | |
| R-AR | J. French Hill | Jul 12, 2022 | |
| R-IN | Larry Bucshon | Jul 12, 2022 | |
| R-SC | Ralph Norman | Jul 12, 2022 | |
| R-MN | Michelle Fischbach | Jul 15, 2022 | |
| R-TX | Brian Babin | Jul 18, 2022 | |
| R-TX | Pat Fallon | Jul 21, 2022 | |
| R-IN | Jim Banks | Jul 26, 2022 | |
| R-IA | Randy Feenstra | Aug 12, 2022 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Jun 21, 2022 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jun 21, 2022Introduced in House
- Jun 21, 2022Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 168, no. 105, June 21, 2022, page H5734.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial No. 117-11 | BY THE NUMBERS: HOW DIVERSITY DATA CAN MEASURE COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION274 pages | Financial Services Committee | Mar 18, 2021 |
CRS reports 1
Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.
Cite it 1
Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.
| Product | Title | Kind | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| IN11986 | Campaign Finance Policy and Email Spam Filtering: The Google Advisory Opinion Request Archived | Insight | Aug 12, 2022 |
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 4409 | Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022 | Identical bill | Jun 15, 2022 |
| HR 5495 | Political BIAS Emails Act of 2023 | Reintroduced Bill | Sep 15, 2023 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To prohibit providers of email services from using filtering algorithms to flag emails from political campaigns that consumers have elected to receive as spam.
- Short Title(s) as Introduced
- Political BIAS Emails Act of 2022
- Political Bias In Algorithm Sorting Emails Act of 2022
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Commerce.
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 21, 2022Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
