# 119-hr-8479: Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

119-hr-8479, Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4] (D-NC); status introduced; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-09-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-8479
- Congress: 119
- Title: Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2026-04-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4] (D-NC)
- Cosponsors: 3
- Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
- Touches household money: yes
- Last recorded action: 2026-09-21

## Summary

**Creates technical standards and mandatory disclosures to identify AI-generated or AI-modified content.** It directs NIST to lead multi‑stakeholder task forces to develop interoperable provenance, watermarking, fingerprinting, and labeling guidelines, and it requires providers and large platforms to attach machine-readable disclosures and metadata to generated content. - Developers of generative AI must include machine-readable disclosures on AI-created or substantially modified audio and visual content, add metadata like app and model name and creation time, and take steps to prevent tampering. - Large online platforms that meet $50 million in annual revenue or 25 million monthly users must clearly show disclosure information to users and are barred from removing those disclosures. - Consumers will see clearer labels and access provenance metadata, while task forces must provide privacy-preserving guidance on when and how provenance data is stored or shared. - NIST task forces will recommend technical standards to private standards bodies and the Federal Trade Commission can write and enforce regulations, with a safe harbor for approved self-regulatory guidelines.

## Cosponsors (3)

- Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8] (D-VA), 2026-04-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large] (R-GU), 2026-04-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1] (R-PA), 2026-05-12T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- NIST task forces on AI provenance: benefit, medium. This bill would require NIST to set up task forces within 90 days to develop technical standards and guidance for provenance metadata, watermarking, and digital fingerprinting for audio, visual, and text content. Each task force would give recommendations to the NIST Director within 270 days and re…
- FTC rules and safe harbors: mixed, high. This bill would require the Federal Trade Commission to write implementing rules within two years, consulting with NIST and the task forces. Violations of the disclosure or platform rules would be treated as violations of the FTC Act and subject to the Commission's enforcement powers and penalties.…
- Labels for AI audio and video: mixed, high. This bill would require makers of generative AI apps to add machine-readable disclosures to audio and video they create or substantially modify. Disclosures would include the app name, model name and version, creation or modification date and time, and which part of the content was created or chang…
- Which big platforms are covered: mixed, high. This bill would define a "covered online platform" as any U.S.-available website or app that either makes at least $50,000,000 in annual revenue or had at least 25,000,000 monthly active users in at least 3 of the last 12 months. That definition would decide which services must display AI disclosur…

## Related bills

- 119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025
- 119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act
- 119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025
- 119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025
- 119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025
- 119-hres-23: Proxy Voting for New Parents Resolution

## Sources
- [119-hr-8479 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8479)

## Related
- [119-hr-4669: FEMA Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4669)
- [119-hr-7977: Energy Bills Relief Act](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-7977)
- [119-hr-4206: CONNECT for Health Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-4206)
- [119-hr-3151: SHIPS for America Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-3151)
- [119-hr-1065: Protect Our Letter Carriers Act of 2025](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-1065)
- [119-hres-23: Proxy Voting for New Parents Resolution](https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hres-23)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-8479 (as of 2026-09-21).