West Virginia · 2026
HB 4496
To force any media/internet creator providing artificial intelligence created videos to have an identifying marker that allows viewers to know that the video is not real.
Bill record: Open States bulk CSV (bills/votes) CC0-1.0
Summary AI-generated
West Virginia HB 4496 proposes to require media and internet creators who produce artificial intelligence-generated videos to include an identifying marker. This marker would serve to inform viewers that the video content is not real.
Software-generated, grounded only in the bill's own fields (it does not invent outcomes, amounts, or dates). Provenance: Open States bulk CSV (bills/votes) CC0-1.0 GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
Issue tags AI-classified
Classified by a local model from the bill's text; confidence shown. GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
Sponsors + 8 cosponsors
- Bill Flanigan lead
- Bill Roop Republican
- Eric Brooks Republican
- J.B. Akers Republican
- Jim Butler Republican
- Joe Funkhouser Republican
- Jordan Maynor Republican
- Mike Hornby Republican
- Phil Mallow Republican