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KS SB186
Bill
AI Summary
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Expands sexual exploitation of a child laws to include AI-generated imagery, criminalizing possession of "artificially generated visual depictions" that are obscene and appear to show minors in sexually explicit conduct, including images indistinguishable from real children, morphed from real children's images, or generated without actual child involvement (severity level 5 person felony)
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Adds "identifiable" requirement to unlawful transmission laws for visual depictions of minors and extends breach of privacy crimes to cover AI-created or digitally altered intimate images that appear to depict identifiable persons without consent, with intent to harass, threaten, or intimidate
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Requires search warrant applications to be made by law enforcement officers rather than "any person" and mandates that probable cause affidavits be made available to law enforcement agencies prior to warrant execution
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Establishes minimum $750,000 cash or surety bond with mandatory house arrest and no-contact conditions for defendants charged with rape, criminal sodomy, aggravated sexual battery, or indecent liberties who have prior sexually violent crime convictions
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Modifies bond forfeiture procedures to allow forfeiture to be set aside if a surety proves the defendant was deported prior to judgment of default, requires courts to provide failure-to-appear warrants to compensated sureties upon request, and prohibits bail agents from providing loans for the required minimum 50% upfront premium payment
Legislative Description
Modifying elements in the crimes of sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission of a visual depiction of a child and breach of privacy, prohibiting 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, prohibiting dissemination of certain items that appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable person, requiring affidavits or sworn testimony in support of probable cause to be made available to law enforcement, requiring the statement of facts sufficient to show probable cause justifying a search warrant to be made by a law enforcement officer, requiring that certain prior convictions be considered when bond is being set for certain sex offenses and specifying minimum requirements and conditions for such bond; relating to appearance bonds, requiring warrants for failure to appear to be given to sureties, allowing bond forfeiture to be set aside in certain circumstances and requiring remission in certain circumstances and prohibiting a compensated surety from making a loan for certain portions of the minimum appearance bond premium required.
Last Action
Senate Approved by Governor on Thursday, April 24, 2025
4/11/2025