Florida · Senate Bill 702 · 2025 Regular Session

Provenance of Digital Content

  1. Introduced Feb 13, 2025
  2. In committee Feb 25, 2025
  3. Passed the Senate  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law Jul 1, 2025

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Requiring that certain content created by generative artificial intelligence purporting to depict an electoral candidate include digital provenance data; creating a digital content provenance pilot program within the Division of Emergency Management; requiring the division to include a conspicuous indicator with an encoded link on the digital images and videos it creates after a specified date to allow users to…

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Requiring that certain content created by generative artificial intelligence purporting to depict an electoral candidate include digital provenance data; creating a digital content provenance pilot program within the Division of Emergency Management; requiring the division to include a conspicuous indicator with an encoded link on the digital images and videos it creates after a specified date to allow users to access provenance data; requiring a provider of a generative artificial intelligence tool to apply provenance data, either directly or through a third-party technology, to synthetic content wholly generated by the provider’s generative artificial intelligence tool, etc.

Every action

12 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. SenateFiled
  2. CommitteeReferred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  3. SenateIntroduced
  4. CommitteeOn Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 03/10/25, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  5. CommitteeCS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 · Senate Commerce and Tourism7–1 vote
  6. SenatePending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
  7. SenateOriginal reference(s) removed: Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
  8. SenateRemaining references corrected to Ethics and Elections; Fiscal Policy
  9. CommitteeNow in Ethics and Elections · Senate Ethics and Elections
  10. CommitteeCS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time · Senate Commerce and Tourism
  11. SenateIndefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  12. CommitteeDied in Ethics and Elections · Senate Ethics and Elections

Roll calls

1 recorded vote: 0 on the floor, 1 in committee. Each shows how every member voted.

Committee votes

DateWhereQuestionResult
Mar 10, 2025 Senate committee CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 7 NAYS 1 Passed 7–1

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

  • Danny BurgessR Primary sponsor · District 23
  • Ca Commerce and Tourism Sponsoring committee

From Florida's official records (leg.state.fl.us; flhouse.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.