Big social media companies must report mental health ads yearly
S. 414 — ADS for Mental Health Services Act · Filed by Dan Sullivan (R-AK) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Feb 5, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
Large social media platforms must report to the Federal Trade Commission each year. They must say how many mental health ads they ran. They must report the ads' value. They must report how many ads promoted free or local mental health resources. The FTC tells Congress what it learned. This rule ends after 5 years.
Who it affects
Large social media and digital ad platforms with over 100 million monthly users must report. Congress and the public learn about mental health advertising.
One thing to notice
The rule ends after 5 years unless Congress votes to keep it going.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Feb 5, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in Senate”
- Feb 5, 2025 — Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation · Congress.gov: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation”
- Mar 12, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of…”
- Dec 9, 2025 — Passed the Senate · Congress.gov: “Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8581-8582; text: CR S8581-8582)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 3 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $110,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Dan Sullivan, who sponsored the bill, received $2,114,700 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Google Client Services — $90,000 in 2 reports
- National Alliance on Mental Illness — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Federal Trade Commission — The government agency that watches over business practices and protects consumers.
- ends after 5 years — The rule stops working unless Congress votes to keep it going.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (3,413 characters) on Aug 20, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,342 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-18.
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