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SB 697

Maryland Senate bill in Session 2026.

Status: passed_upper. Latest action: May 15, 2026.

Election Law - Actions to Influence an Election - Social Media Platform Algorithms and Bots Purchased by Foreign Nationals.

Bill ID MD-2026-SB-697
Session 2026
Status passed_upper
Committee Education, Energy, and the Environment; Government, Labor, and Elections
Senate passed_upper 2026-05-15
Elections / Voting Social Media / Online Safety
Summary

Establishing a rebuttable presumption that a social media platform has made an independent expenditure to a certain candidate if the social media platform knowingly and purposefully alters its algorithm to amplify certain political content for the benefit of the candidate; prohibiting a foreign national from using a bot to publish, distribute, or disseminate campaign material or artificially amplify political content to users of an online platform for a certain purpose; etc.

Sponsor
Senator Feldman
Official Source Back to Bills
Actions Timeline
Date Event Detail
0000-00-00 Status passed_upper
2026-02-06 Introduced Bill introduced
2026-05-15 Latest Action In the House - Hearing 4/01 at 1:00 p.m.
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