Protecting Our Children in an AI World Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1283 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1283

 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit child pornography 
                produced using artificial intelligence.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2025

Mr. Bilirakis introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit child pornography 
                produced using artificial intelligence.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Our Children in an AI 
World Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. CHILD PORNOGRAPHY PRODUCED USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

    (a) Elimination of Affirmative Defense.--Section 2252A(c) of title 
18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) paragraph (1), by striking ``; or'' at the end; 
                and
                    (B) by striking paragraph (2); and
            (2) in the matter following subsection (c), by striking 
        ``No affirmative defense under subsection (c)(2) shall be 
        available in any prosecution that involves child pornography as 
        described in section 2256(8)(C).''.
    (b) Definition of Sexually Explicit Conduct.--Section 2256(2)(B) of 
title 18, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii)(III), by striking ``or'' at the end;
            (2) in clause (iii), by adding ``or'' at the end; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(iv) actual or simulated obscene 
                        exhibition of the clothed or unclothed 
                        genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female 
                        nipple;''.
    (c) Severability.--If any provision of this Act, or any amendment 
made by this Act, or the application of such provision to any person, 
entity, government, or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, 
the remainder of this Act, or any amendment made thereby, or the 
application of such provision to all other persons, entities, 
governments, or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
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