[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 414 Engrossed in Senate (ES)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 414

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
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.--Subject to subsection (e), not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this section and annually thereafter, a 
covered digital advertising platform shall submit to the Commission a 
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 and behavioral health care 
        resources.
            (4) The number of such public service advertisements that 
        promote free mental or behavioral health care resources.
            (5) A description of how such advertisements meet the 
        definition of a public service advertisement as described in 
        subsection (c)(2).
    (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 
                electronically serves to a user over the internet for 
                free and without receiving any payment or other 
                consideration in exchange;
                    (B) promotes mental or behavioral health care 
                resources that--
                            (i) raise awareness of community events to 
                        address social isolation; or
                            (ii) promote 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 similar 
                                matters that cause harm to physical and 
                                mental health;
                                    (II) patterns of behavioral 
                                addiction; 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, public-facing website, online service, online 
        application, or mobile application that--
                    (A) derives revenue from advertising;
                    (B) as its primary function provides a community 
                forum for user-generated content, including messages, 
                videos, and audio files among users where such content 
                is primarily intended for viewing, resharing, or 
                platform-enabled distributed social endorsement or 
                comment; and
                    (C) has more than 100,000,000 unique monthly users 
                or visitors.
            (4) User.--The term ``user'' means, with respect to a 
        covered digital advertising platform, an individual who 
        registers an account or creates a profile on such platform.
    (d) Relationship to Other Laws.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
construed to supersede any applicable privacy or data security laws.
    (e) Sunset.--This Act and all requirements, responsibilities, and 
obligations under this Act shall terminate on the date that is 5 years 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.

            Passed the Senate December 9, 2025.

            Attest:

                                                             Secretary.
119th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 414

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

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