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GA SB466

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/7/2024

Primary Sponsor

Bo Hatchett

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Georgia Code Section 16-12-100 (sexual exploitation of children) to eliminate the defense that a visual medium was digitally created, adapted, or modified to depict an identifiable minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct
  • Applies to all actions covered under the existing statute, including creation, reproduction, publishing, promotion, selling, distributing, exhibiting, possessing with intent to distribute, importing into the state, or possessing such material
  • Targets AI-generated and digitally manipulated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) by closing a legal loophole that defendants could use to argue the imagery was not real
  • Sponsored by Senators Hatchett (50th), Payne (54th), Still (48th), Echols (49th), Harbin (16th), and others

Legislative Description

Obscenity and Related Offenses; limitations of defense that a sexually exploitive visual medium is digitally altered; provide

Last Action

Senate Read Second Time

2/26/2024

Committee Referrals

Judiciary2/8/2024

Full Bill Text

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