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Relative to AI-generated child sexual abuse material

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Senate Bill No. 2633 (Massachusetts, 194th General Court) was reported favorably on 2025-10-16 by the Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity and sent to Senate Ways and Means. It has not been enacted. If enacted, it would add a new Section 29E to Chapter 272 of the General Laws (Section 1). Under it, a person who creates child sexual abuse visual material would be punished, if the person knew or had reason to know the person depicted is a minor and acted with lascivious intent. Penalties would be up to 2½ years in a house of correction, or up to 10 years in state prison, or a fine of $10,000 to $50,000, or both a fine and imprisonment. Section 29E(b) lists ways to show the child is a minor: the child's testimony, testimony of someone who produced the material and knew the child was a minor, testimony of a person who observed the material, or expert medical testimony on age from physical appearance. Section 3 adds a definition of "child sexual abuse visual material" to Section 31 of Chapter 272. It covers photographs, films, videos, pictures or computer-generated images depicting sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or a minor in nudity or partial nudity. The material must be created, adapted, modified or altered, including through digitization, so that it would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be an authentic depiction of a minor. Section 2 adds references to Sections 29D and 29E in Section 31. Section 4 amends Section 29C to include this material. Section 5 amends Section 54B of Chapter 119 to add 29E to the list of cross-referenced sections.

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