[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2423 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2423

To require covered digital advertising platforms to report their public 
                        service advertisements.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 20, 2023

  Mr. Sullivan (for himself and Mr. Peters) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                                 A BILL


 
To require covered digital advertising platforms to report their public 
                        service advertisements.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Advancing Digital Support for Mental 
Health Services Act'' or the ``ADS for Mental Health Services Act''.

SEC. 2. DIGITAL ADVERTISING PLATFORMS PUBLIC SERVICE ADVERTISING 
              REPORTING.

    (a) In General.--A covered digital advertising platform shall 
submit to the Commission an annual report that includes the following:
            (1) The number and percentage of total advertisements on 
        the platform during the previous 12-month period that were 
        public service advertisements.
            (2) The estimated dollar value of such public service 
        advertisements.
            (3) The number of such public service advertisements that 
        focus on local or regional mental, behavioral, and physical 
        health resources.
            (4) The number of such public service advertisements that 
        promote free mental, behavioral, or physical health care 
        resources.
            (5) A description of how such advertisements meet the 
        definition of a public service advertisement as described in 
        subsection (c)(3).
    (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 180 days after receiving 
the reports required under subsection (a), and annually thereafter, the 
Commission shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
of the House of Representatives a publicly available report summarizing 
the information reported under such subsection.
    (c) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Commission.--The term ``Commission'' means the Federal 
        Trade Commission.
            (2) Public service advertisement.--The term ``public 
        service advertisement'' means an advertisement that--
                    (A) a covered digital advertising platform displays 
                for free and without receiving any payment or other 
                consideration in exchange;
                    (B) promotes mental, behavioral, or physical health 
                care resources, and may include advertisements that--
                            (i) raise awareness of community events to 
                        address social isolation; or
                            (ii) promote State, local, or regional 
                        mental health care resources that are approved 
                        by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health 
                        Services Administration that mitigate--
                                    (I) self-harm, suicide, eating 
                                disorders, substance abuse, and other 
                                matters that pose a risk to physical 
                                and mental health;
                                    (II) patterns of addiction-like 
                                behaviors; or
                                    (III) social isolation; and
                    (C) is relevant and accessible to targeted 
                audiences.
            (3) Covered digital advertising platform.--The term 
        ``covered digital advertising platform'' means a social media 
        platform, search engine, or other public-facing website, online 
        service, or application that--
                    (A) sells digital advertising space; and
                    (B) has more than 100,000,000 unique monthly users.
    (d) Relationship to Other Laws.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
construed to supersede any applicable privacy or data security laws.
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