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Committee advances AI bill to ban nonconsensual intimate deepfakes, require provenance metadata

Senate Transportation, Public Utilities, Energy and Technology Committee · February 26, 2026
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Summary

The committee unanimously moved House Bill 276 (first substitute, as amended) to the floor; the bill creates a private right of action for victims of nonconsensual deepfakes, requires platforms to disclose content‑provenance metadata, and directs state IT to pilot provenance disclosure on government sites. Stakeholders urged technical clarifications and a delayed implementation date.

Representatives and the Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy introduced House Bill 276 (first substitute), which would do three primary things: require platforms to obtain consent before publishing deep‑faked intimate images, require disclosure of content provenance metadata so users can see whether an image or video has been altered, and direct the director of the Department of Technology Services to work toward disclosing provenance data on government websites.

Director Zach Boyd (Office of Artificial…

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