2025 House Bill 4048

Criminal procedure: sentencing guidelines; guidelines for dissemination of deep fake sexual images; enact.

A bill to amend 1927 PA 175, entitled “The code of criminal procedure,” by amending section 17b of chapter XVII (MCL 777.17b), as added by 2002 PA 28.

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HB 4046, 4047 and 4048 creates the "Protection from Intimate Deep Fakes Act" which allows for a civil action for the creation or dissemination of a deep fake (a video recording, sound recording, electronic image, or photograph so real that a reasonable person could construe this was the actual individual) that is done without the person's consent. The other bills establish sentencing guidelines for violating the act and articulates the process for filing a civil lawsuit.