Texas 2025 - 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB1108 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 02/05/2025

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                            89R13053 TYPED
 By: Parker S.B. No. 1108




 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to sexually explicit visual material.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1. The heading to Section 21.165, Penal Code, is
 amended to read as follows:
 Sec. 21.165.  UNLAWFUL PRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN
 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT VISUAL MATERIAL [VIDEOS].
 SECTION 2. Sections 21.165 (a) and (b), Penal Code, are
 amended to read as follows:
 (a)  In this section:
 (1)  "Deep fake visual material [video]" means visual
 material [a video], created with the intent to deceive, that
 appears to depict a real person performing an action that did not
 occur in reality.
 (2)  "Intimate parts" and "sexual conduct" have the meanings
 assigned by Section 21.16.
 (3)   "Visual material" has the meaning assigned by Section
 43.26(b)(3), Penal Code.
 (b)  A person commits an offense if, without the effective
 consent of the person appearing to be depicted, the person
 knowingly produces or distributes by electronic means a deep fake
 visual material [video] that appears to depict the person with the
 person's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual conduct.
 SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.