S 1260
114th Congress
Senate
Science, Technology, Communications
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Government information and archives
Marketing and advertising
Sunshine in Sponsorship Identification Act
Introduced: May 7, 2015
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Became law
May 7, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
May 7, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Sunshine in Sponsorship Identification Act
Directs the Federal Communications Commission to update its sponsorship identification rules for commercial and political advertising to: (1) reflect current technologies and practices, (2) ensure that political broadcasts include more detailed disclosures about the identity of the true sponsors, and (3) require more detailed sponsorship identification information to be placed online or in another form more readily accessible to the public.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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