S.Amdt. 1795Senate118th Congress (2023-2025)

To prohibit the use of funds to label speech as disinformation or misinformation or to coerce online platforms to alter, remove, restrict, or suppress speech.

Sponsored by Eric Schmitt
Submitted March 22, 2024

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Roll call votes on amendments in Senate: Amendment SA 1795 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 51. Record Vote Number: 109.

March 23, 2024

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Senate amendment not agreed to: Amendment SA 1795 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 51. Record Vote Number: 109.

March 23, 2024

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Senate amendment proposed (on the floor): Amendment SA 1795 proposed by Senator Schmitt.

March 23, 2024

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Amendment SA 1795 proposed by Senator Schmitt. (consideration: CR S2581-2582) To prohibit the use of funds to label speech as disinformation or misinformation or to coerce online platforms to alter, remove, restrict, or suppress speech.

March 23, 2024

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Amendment SA 1795 not agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 47 - 51. Record Vote Number: 109.

March 23, 2024

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Senate amendment submitted

March 22, 2024

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Senate amendment submitted

March 22, 2024

Text

Submitted

SA 1795. Mr. SCHMITT (for himself and Ms. Ernst) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill H.R. 2882, to
reauthorize the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Trust Fund, and
for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:
Sec. ___. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act
may be used--
(1) by an employee acting under the official authority of
the Federal Government to create a list or database with the
purpose of gathering and labeling any speech of a United
States citizen as disinformation or misinformation;
(2) to provide or transmit a list or database described in
paragraph (1) or a single item of speech to any provider or
operator of a covered platform in order to alter, remove,
restrict, or suppress speech of a United States citizen that
is shared on the covered platform based on a determination,
by an employee acting under the official authority of the
Federal Government, that the views of the speech in the list,
database, or item are disinformation or misinformation; or
(3) to create, or provide funding to a foreign government,
quasi-governmental organization, or nonprofit organization
for the research, development, or maintenance of, any
disinformation or misinformation list or ranking system
relating to news content, regardless of medium.
(b) For purposes of this section, the term ``covered
platform'' means an interactive computer service, as that
term is defined in section 230 of the Communications Act of
1934 (47 U.S.C. 230).
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