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KS HB2537: An Act concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sexual extortion; requiring the attorney general to prepare and provide educ…

Enacted Kansas · 2025–2026 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB2537 · where it stands

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An Act concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating to sexual extortion; requiring the attorney general to prepare and provide educational materials and information concerning such crime; increasing the penalties for such crime when an offender is 18 years of age or older and the victim is less than 18 years of age or a dependent adult; creating the crimes of aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm and aggravated sexual extortion causing death; amending K.S.A. 21-5515 and repealing the existing section.

In one paragraph

Kansas HB 2537 (L. 2026, ch. 45, "Caleb's Law") rewrites the sexual extortion statute, K.S.A. 21-5515. The "image, video or other recording" used in a threat now expressly includes material created, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to depict a person, whether or not that person was involved in the original. Penalties rise when an adult targets a minor or dependent adult, and new crimes of aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm or death are created. The Attorney General must prepare educational materials.

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

What it means for business

Using AI-generated or AI-altered sexual images to extort someone is prosecuted the same as using real images; online platforms may see related law-enforcement requests.

Key provisions

  1. K.S.A. 21-5515(h)(2): "image, video or other recording" includes items created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to depict a person
  2. Sexual extortion is a severity level 7 or level 4 person felony depending on the conduct, one level higher when an offender 18 or older targets a minor or dependent adult
  3. New aggravated sexual extortion causing great bodily harm (severity level 3) and causing death (severity level 1)
  4. The Attorney General must prepare and provide educational materials on sexual extortion
  5. In force on publication in the statute book; no separate effective date stated

Latest legislative action

Apr 6, 2026. Approved by Governor April 6, 2026 (L. 2026, ch. 45)

Topics and industries

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Affected industries

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