Utah legislation · 2026 General Session
Utah HB504: Political Advertising Modifications
Status: Failed, March 6, 2026
This bill addresses the use of artificial intelligence in printed political advertisements.
What the bill says
From the introduced text, February 5, 2026:
0 Political Advertising Modifications 2026 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH Chief Sponsor: Rosalba Dominguez Senate Sponsor: LONG TITLE General Description: This bill addresses the use of artificial intelligence in printed political advertisements. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: - requires a printed political advertisement that includes AI-generated content to include a clear disclosure indicating the use of AI; and - makes technical and conforming changes. Money Appropriated in this Bill: None Other Special Clauses: None Utah Code Sections Affected: AMENDS: 20A-11-1104 , as enacted by Laws of Utah 2024, Chapter 172 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah: Section 1. Section 20A-11-1104 is amended to read: 20A-11-1104 . Disclosure of synthetic media. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. (b) (i) "Creator" means a person that uses artificial intelligence to generate synthetic media. (ii) "Creator" does not include a person that solely provides the technology used in the creation of the synthetic media. (c) "Digital content provenance" means purely factual information that: (i) details a digital resource's creator, origin, context, history, and editing process; and (ii) conforms to an open industry technical standard. (d) "Generative artificial intelligence" means artificial intelligence technology that is …
Sponsors
- Dominguez, Rosalba (D, 35) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : House/ filed
- : House/ strike enacting clause
- : House/ comm rpt/ sent to Rules
- : House Comm - Recommends Returned to Rules
- : House Comm - Held
- : House/ to standing committee
- : House/ received fiscal note from Fiscal Analyst
- : LFA/ fiscal note publicly available for HB0504
- : LFA/ fiscal note sent to sponsor for HB0504
- : House/ 1st reading (Introduced)
Votes
- House Comm - Held (February 13, 2026): 10 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Government Operations (State Issues), Technology, Election Administration, Political Parties, Elected Official, Administrative Rulemaking and Procedures, Administrative Rulemaking
Common questions
- What is HB504?
- HB504 is a bill in the Utah Legislature (2026 General Session): Political Advertising Modifications.
- What does HB504 do?
- This bill addresses the use of artificial intelligence in printed political advertisements.
- What is the status of HB504?
- Failed as of March 6, 2026. Latest action: House/ filed (March 6, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB504?
- Dominguez, Rosalba (D, 35).
- Where is the official record for HB504?
- On the Utah Legislature website: https://le.utah.gov/~2026/bills/static/HB0504.html
Source: official Utah record. Tracked by Delilah, AI for legislation across all 50 states and Congress.