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Suspending Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b), and 42(e), Uniform Rules of the Alaska State Legislature, concerning House Bill No. 358, relating to defamation claims based on the use of deepfakes; and relating to the use of deepfakes in electioneering communications.
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Not adopted. SCR 28 was a procedural resolution from the Alaska Senate Judiciary Committee to suspend the Legislature's Uniform Rules so that HB 358, the deepfake defamation and election bill, could take a new title after the committee rewrote it. It was read once and held on the Senate Secretary's desk on May 13, 2024, and neither it nor HB 358 passed before the session ended. It has no substantive provisions of its own.
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What it means for business
None: a procedural resolution that was never adopted.
Key provisions
- Suspends Uniform Rules 24(c), 35, 41(b) and 42(e) for HB 358, allowing its title change
- Needed because the Senate Judiciary Committee's substitute retitled HB 358 to cover 'synthetic media' and add an effective date
- No substantive provisions of its own
- Read the first time and held on the Senate Secretary's desk May 13, 2024; not adopted before the 2024 session ended
Latest legislative action
May 13, 2024. READ THE FIRST TIME - HELD ON SECY'S DESK; no further action before the 2024 session ended
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