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Senate Judiciary advances bills on deepfakes, insanity defense, treatment courts and cat-holding rules
Summary
During May 5 work sessions the Senate Judiciary Committee moved multiple bills to the Senate floor with due-pass recommendations, advancing proposals on deepfakes and intimate-image crimes, the insanity verdict standard, treatment-court oversight, and animal-holding rules for cats.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary used its May 5 work sessions to advance several bills to the Senate floor with due pass recommendations and to reschedule two others.
House Bill 2299A: Committee counsel Jules summarized the measure, which would add "digitally created, manipulated, or altered depictions that are reasonably realistic" to the statutory definition of "image" in the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image, a Class A misdemeanor. Senator Thatcher moved HB 2299A to the floor with a due-pass recommendation and the motion carried.
House Bill 2471A: The committee considered amendments to the "guilty except for insanity" standard. Jules described the amended test as…
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