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KS HB2479: AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to release of persons prior to trial; authorizing electronic monitoring with vi…

Enacted Kansas · 2025–2026 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB2479 · where it stands

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AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to release of persons prior to trial; authorizing electronic monitoring with victim notification; modifying the culpable mental state required to commit the crime of breach of privacy; modifying the elements of the crime of blackmail related to threatened dissemination of any image, video or other recording of another identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity; and related matters (L. 2026, ch. 114).

In one paragraph

Kansas HB 2479 (L. 2026, ch. 114) is a criminal-law bill with an AI provision. Blackmail (K.S.A. 21-5428) now covers threatening to disseminate an image, video or other recording of an identifiable person who is nude or engaged in sexual activity, expressly including recordings created, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means, whether or not the person took part in the original. The breach-of-privacy offense keeps its AI-altered intimate image language. Other parts deal with pretrial electronic monitoring and are not about AI.

Plain-English summary, written with AI assistance. The official text controls.

What it means for business

Threats to release AI-generated nude or sexual images are now blackmail in Kansas; no new duties for businesses.

Key provisions

  1. K.S.A. 21-5428: threatening to disseminate a nude or sexual recording of an identifiable person, including one created or altered by artificial intelligence or any digital means, is blackmail (severity level 4 person felony)
  2. Defines the covered recordings to include a digital or computer-generated image or picture
  3. K.S.A. 21-6101: breach of privacy continues to cover intimate images altered or modified by artificial intelligence; the act modifies the required mental state
  4. Non-AI provisions: pretrial electronic monitoring with victim notification and other criminal-code changes
  5. In force on publication in the statute book; no separate effective date stated

Latest legislative action

Apr 9, 2026. Approved by Governor on 04-09-2026

Topics and industries

Related topics

AI Intimate Images

Affected industries

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