Bill > HB1689

This bill modifies Missouri state law to expand definitions related to child pornography and explicit sexual material by explicitly including "artificially generated visual depictions" of minors. The bill adds a new definition for "artificially generated visual depiction" that encompasses computer-generated images that are obscene, indistinguishable from real minors, morphed from a real minor's image, or generated without any actual minor involvement. The legislation updates several sections of criminal code to encompass these artificially generated images within existing legal frameworks around child pornography and explicit sexual material, effectively treating computer-generated images that appear to depict minors in sexually explicit scenarios as equivalent to actual photographs of minors. The bill maintains existing penalties, such as classifying the provision of such material to students as a class A misdemeanor, but broadens the scope of what can be considered illegal visual content. This expansion appears designed to address emerging technologies that can create highly realistic, sexually explicit digital images of minors without using actual children, closing potential legal loopholes in existing child exploitation statutes.

https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB1689&year=2026&code=R