Kansas · Legislation

Kansas HB2183

Kansas HB2183 has been enacted.

This bill updates Kansas criminal law to ban the creation and distribution of AI-generated or digitally altered sexual images of children, even when no real child was directly involved in making them. It also prohibits sharing realistic fake explicit images of identifiable real people without their consent.

Recorded sponsor: Judiciary.

Official title

Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy to prohibit certain acts related to visual depictions in which the person depicted is indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement, provide an exception for cable services in the crime of breach of privacy and prohibit dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person.

Bill details

Stage
Enacted
Policy area
Deepfakes
Sponsor
Judiciary
Last updated

Focus areas

Topics this bill touches, used to group it with related legislation.

  • Deepfake Regulation
  • Child Safety
  • Data Privacy

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What would Kansas HB2183 do, and who would it affect?

Records current as of . The bill text and legislative history are linked below.