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WyomingWyomingHB 102
Protecting kids from deepfakes and exploitative images
Creates protections and penalties for deepfakes and other digitally created exploitative sexual images of minors.
Deepfakes
203 on file · 142 became law · 23 still moving · 3 moved in 30 days
WyomingVermontVermontS.23
Use of synthetic media in elections (Act 75 of 2026)
Requires disclosure of synthetic media, including AI-generated deepfakes, in election-related communications within a set period before an election.
CaliforniaCaliforniaSB 11
Artificial Intelligence Technology: Digital Replicas
Would have clarified that false impersonation and right of publicity laws cover AI digital replicas and required AI tools that create them to display a consumer warning about unlawful use.
IndiaIndiaG.S.R. 120(E)
IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026
Amends India's IT Rules 2021 to define synthetically generated information and require intermediaries to label AI-generated content, embed provenance metadata and act faster on unlawful deepfakes.
MassachusettsMassachusettsH 5093
An Act to protect against election misinformation
Would regulate deceptive synthetic media and misinformation about candidates and elections.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 1370
Deep fake election and nonconsensual sexual deep fake law
Creates a crime for disseminating deep fakes to influence an election, a crime for nonconsensual dissemination of sexual deep fakes, and a civil cause of action for victims of nonconsensual sexual deep fakes.
United KingdomUnited Kingdom2025 c. 18
Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
Reforms UK data protection law, creates frameworks for digital verification services and smart data, restructures the Information Commissioner's Office, adds an offence of creating or requesting intimate images of adults without consent, and requires government reports on copyright and AI.
KansasKansasHB 2183
AI-generated child sexual abuse material and deepfake dissemination
Extends child sexual exploitation crimes to images that are morphed from or indistinguishable from a real child or generated without any actual child, and bars disseminating items that purport to depict an identifiable person.
GeorgiaGeorgiaSB 9
Ensuring Accountability for Illegal AI Activities Act
Would have created crimes and enhanced penalties for illegal activities carried out using artificial intelligence, including AI-generated obscene material and deceptive election content.
KazakhstanLaw on Artificial Intelligence
Sets principles, a three-level risk classification, prohibited practices and machine-readable labeling of synthetic content for AI systems in Kazakhstan, and addresses copyright in AI-generated works.
United States (federal)United States (federal)S. 1837
DEFIANCE Act of 2025
Would create a federal civil remedy for people depicted in sexually explicit deepfakes made or shared without consent.
GeorgiaGeorgiaHB 171
Obscenity: AI-Generated Obscene Material Depicting Children
Would have replaced Georgia's obscene material involving children statute to cover computer-generated images.
TexasTexasHB 149
Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA)
Bans developing or deploying AI systems for certain intentional harms such as behavioral manipulation toward self-harm, unlawful discrimination, government social scoring and sexual deepfakes of minors, requires state agencies to disclose AI use to consumers, and creates an AI regulatory sandbox and the Texas Artificial Intelligence Council, enforced by the attorney general.
NevadaNevadaAB 73
Disclosure of synthetic media in election communications
Requires election communications that include synthetic media to disclose that the image, video or audio has been manipulated and lets depicted candidates seek an injunction.
MontanaMontanaHB 513
Property right in use of names, voices and likenesses
Creates a property right in an individual's name, voice and visual likeness, including digital depictions, and sets penalties for unauthorized use.
New YorkNew YorkS 8391 / A 8882
Post-mortem Right of Publicity (digital replicas of deceased performers)
Requires prior consent before a deceased performer's digital replica is used in audiovisual works, sound recordings or live performances.
New YorkNew YorkS 8420-A / A 8887-B
Synthetic Performer Disclosure in Advertising
Requires advertisements to conspicuously disclose when they include an AI-generated synthetic performer, with civil penalties for violations.
District of ColumbiaDistrict of ColumbiaB26-0524
Distribution of False Sexual Imagery Prohibition Amendment Act of 2025
Would create misdemeanor and felony offenses for nonconsensual distribution of sexually explicit images, video or audio created or altered with digital technology, including AI.
CaliforniaCaliforniaSB 942
California AI Transparency Act
Requires large generative AI providers to offer a free AI detection tool and to embed disclosures in AI-generated image, video and audio content.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 853
California AI Transparency Act: Delay and Provenance
Delays the California AI Transparency Act to August 2, 2026 and adds content provenance duties for large online platforms from 2027 and capture device makers from 2028.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 621
Deepfake Pornography
Expands civil liability for digitized sexually explicit material, including material depicting minors, and for services that knowingly enable deepfake pornography services to operate.
MontanaMontanaHB 514
Criminalize real and digitally fabricated sexually explicit images
Makes it a crime to create or distribute real or digitally fabricated sexually explicit images of a person without consent.
MontanaMontanaSB 25
Disclosure of AI deepfakes in election communications
Regulates deepfakes of candidates and parties in election and electioneering communications by requiring a disclosure and allowing injunctive relief and penalties.
NevadaNevadaSB 263
Expanded prohibitions on pornography involving minors
Expands prohibitions relating to pornography involving minors and revises the penalties for those crimes.
CaliforniaCaliforniaAB 2839
Elections: Deceptive Media in Advertisements
Prohibits knowingly distributing materially deceptive AI-generated or digitally altered election content about candidates, officials and election workers within set periods around elections.
District of ColumbiaDistrict of ColumbiaB26-0329
Campaign Finance Modernization Amendment Act of 2025
Campaign finance overhaul bill that Public Citizen tracks for its provisions on deepfakes in political communications.
ChinaChinaGuo Xin Ban Tong Zi (2025) No. 2
Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content
Requires providers of AI generation services and content distribution platforms to add explicit visible labels and implicit metadata labels to AI-generated text, audio, images, video and virtual scenes, and bars removing or forging those labels.
TexasTexasHB 581
Age verification for AI nudify tools
Requires commercial websites and apps that offer tools to create artificial sexual material using real people's likenesses to verify users are adults, with civil penalties.
TexasTexasSB 20
AI-generated obscene depictions of children
Creates a criminal offense for possessing, promoting or producing obscene visual material that appears to depict a child, including AI-generated or animated images.
TexasTexasSB 1621
Computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Expands child sexual abuse material offenses to cover computer-generated and AI-altered images depicting children, including recognizable real children.
ChinaChinaGB 45438-2025
Cybersecurity Technology: Labeling Method for AI-Generated Synthetic Content
Sets the mandatory national technical standard for how explicit and implicit labels, including metadata, must be applied to AI-generated text, images, audio, video and virtual scenes under China's labeling measures.
TexasTexasSB 441
Deepfake sexual media and artificial intimate visual material
Creates civil liability and expands criminal offenses for producing or distributing nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake media and artificial intimate visual material, with an affirmative defense for AI application providers that prohibit and take steps to prevent such content.
TexasTexasSB 2373
Financial exploitation using AI-generated media
Creates criminal and civil liability for financial exploitation or abuse carried out with artificially generated media or phishing communications.
TexasTexasHB 3133
User reports of explicit deepfake material on social media
Requires social media platforms to provide a way for users to report explicit deepfake material and to respond to and act on such reports on set timelines.
United States (federal)United States (federal)No. 2:24-cv-02527
Kohls v. Bonta (California election deepfake laws)
The court permanently enjoined California's AB 2655, which required platforms to block or label deceptive election deepfakes, as preempted by Section 230, and permanently enjoined AB 2839 against the plaintiffs.
MichiganMichiganHB 4047
Intimate deepfakes act (Public Act 11 of 2025)
Creates criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for creating or distributing AI-generated sexual images that falsely depict an identifiable person without consent.
MississippiMississippiHB 1126
Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act
Requires digital service providers to register users' ages, obtain parental consent for minors, limit collection of minors' data and mitigate harms to minors, and adds morphed images of children to the child exploitation crime.
West VirginiaWest VirginiaSB 198
Fabricated intimate images and computer-generated child sexual abuse material
Expands the crime of nonconsensual disclosure of intimate images to include fabricated images and defines computer-generated child sexual abuse material as a crime.
MinnesotaMinnesotaHF 2432
2025 judiciary and public safety omnibus (AI-generated child sexual abuse material)
Public safety omnibus that expanded the definition of child sexual abuse material to include obscene images of individuals indistinguishable from actual minors created with generative artificial intelligence.
United KingdomUnited Kingdom2023 c. 50
Online Safety Act 2023
Imposes duties on user-to-user and search services to tackle illegal content and protect children, enforced by Ofcom through codes of practice, age assurance requirements and penalties.
PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaSB 649
Digital forgery offense (Act 35 of 2025)
Creates the crime of digital forgery for creating or spreading AI-generated or otherwise forged digital likenesses of a person with intent to defraud or injure.
Rhode IslandRhode IslandH 5872
Deceptive and fraudulent synthetic media in election communications
Bars distributing deceptive synthetic media of candidates in election communications within a set period before an election unless it carries a disclosure, and lets affected candidates seek relief.
Rhode IslandRhode IslandS 816
Deceptive and fraudulent synthetic media in election communications (Senate bill)
Senate companion regulating deceptive synthetic media of candidates in election communications, with a disclosure safe harbor and a private right of action.
PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaHB 811
Deepfakes in campaign advertising
Would make people liable for knowingly distributing campaign ads containing undisclosed deepfakes of candidates in the days before an election.
TexasTexasHB 449
Sexually explicit deepfake media
Would have broadened the offense of producing or distributing sexually explicit deepfakes from videos to any deepfake media, including images.
FloridaFloridaHB 369
Provenance of Digital Content
Would have required certain generative AI developers to embed provenance data in AI content and offer provenance readers.
FloridaFloridaHB 1161
Brooke's Law (Removal of Altered Sexual Depictions Posted without Consent)
Requires covered online platforms to set up a process to remove altered sexual depictions, including deepfakes, within 48 hours of a valid request from the depicted person.
OregonOregonHB 2299
Digitally altered intimate images crime
Expands the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image to cover digitally created, manipulated or altered images such as deepfakes.
ColoradoColoradoSB 25-288
Intimate Digital Depictions Criminal and Civil Actions
Creates civil and criminal remedies for the nonconsensual disclosure of AI-generated or digitally altered intimate depictions of identifiable people.
NevadaNevadaAB 35
Child sexual abuse material, including depictions of purported children
Revises terminology for materials depicting minors in sexual conduct and prohibits possessing or distributing obscene material depicting a purported child, reaching computer-generated images.