Arkansas legislation · 95th General Assembly (2025 Regular)
Arkansas HB1823: TO ESTABLISH THE DISRUPT EXPLICIT FORGED IMAGES AND NONCONSENSUAL EDITS ACT OF 2025; AND TO CLARIFY THE RIGHTS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AFFECTED BY NONCONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES INVOLVING INTIMATE DIGITAL FORGERIES
Status: Failed, May 5, 2025
What the bill says
An act to be entitled an act to establish the disrupt explicit forged images and nonconsensual edits act of 2025; to clarify the rights for an individual affected by nonconsensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries; and for other purposes. subtitle to establish the disrupt explicit forged images and nonconsensual edits act of 2025; and to clarify the rights for an individual affected by nonconsensual activities involving intimate digital forgeries.
From the introduced text:
An Act To Be Entitled AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE DISRUPT EXPLICIT FORGED IMAGES AND NONCONSENSUAL EDITS ACT OF 2025; TO CLARIFY THE RIGHTS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AFFECTED BY NONCONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES INVOLVING INTIMATE DIGITAL FORGERIES; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. Subtitle TO ESTABLISH THE DISRUPT EXPLICIT FORGED IMAGES AND NONCONSENSUAL EDITS ACT OF 2025; AND TO CLARIFY THE RIGHTS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL AFFECTED BY NONCONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES INVOLVING INTIMATE DIGITAL FORGERIES. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS: SECTION 1. Arkansas Code Title 4, is amended to add an additional chapter to read as follows: CHAPTER DISRUPT EXPLICIT FORGED IMAGES AND NONCONSENSUAL EDITS ACT OF 2025 4-120-101. Title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Nonconsensual Edits Act of 2025". 4-120-102. Definitions. *ANS408* 03/18/2025 10:15:56 AM ANS408 HB1823 As used in this chapter: (1) "Commercial pornographic content" means any material that is subject to the record keeping requirements under 18 U.S.C. § 2257, as it existed on January 1, 2025; (2) "Consent" means an affirmative, conscious, competent, and voluntary authorization made by an individual free from force, fraud, misrepresentation, or coercion; (3) "Digital forgery" means an intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or …