Bill Details
HR.1283 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-02-13 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced Date
2025-02-13
Policy Area
Crime and Law Enforcement
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This bill would update federal child pornography laws to make it clear that images or videos created with artificial intelligence are covered too. It would remove a legal defense that some defendants could use in cases involving child pornography made this way. It also expands the legal definition of sexually explicit conduct so it includes certain obscene images of clothed or unclothed intimate body parts, whether the image is real or generated. The goal is to help law enforcement and prosecutors treat AI-made child sexual abuse material the same as other illegal child pornography.
- It removes an existing defense that could be used in prosecutions involving child pornography described as being created with AI.
- It broadens the definition of sexually explicit conduct to include the obscene exhibition of the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female nipple, even when the person is clothed.
- It includes a severability rule, which means if one part of the law is struck down, the rest would still stay in effect.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1283 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1283
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit child pornography
produced using artificial intelligence.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 13, 2025
Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit child pornography
produced using artificial intelligence.
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 ``Protecting Our Children in an AI
World Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PRODUCED USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(a) Elimination of Affirmative Defense.--Section 2252A(c) of title
18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)--
(A) paragraph (1), by striking ``; or'' at the end;
and
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and
(2) in the matter following subsection (c), by striking
``No affirmative defense under subsection (c)(2) shall be
available in any prosecution that involves child pornography as
described in section 2256(8)(C).''.
(b) Definition of Sexually Explicit Conduct.--Section 2256(2)(B) of
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in clause (ii)(III), by striking ``or'' at the end;
(2) in clause (iii), by adding ``or'' at the end; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(iv) actual or simulated obscene
exhibition of the clothed or unclothed
genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female
nipple;''.
(c) Severability.--If any provision of this Act, or any amendment
made by this Act, or the application of such provision to any person,
entity, government, or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional,
the remainder of this Act, or any amendment made thereby, or the
application of such provision to all other persons, entities,
governments, or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
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