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UT HB13: Sexual Extortion Amendments

Effective Feb 27, 2025 Utah · 2025 session

Last verified Oct 12, 2026 · official bill text

HB13 · where it stands

All steps complete
  1. Introduced Complete
  2. Passed first chamber Complete
  3. Passed both chambers Complete
  4. Enacted Complete
  5. Effective Since Feb 27, 2025
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In one paragraph

Utah HB 13 (2025) amends the crime of sexual extortion in Utah Code 76-5b-204 to include threatening to distribute a counterfeit intimate image, the term Utah law uses for computer-generated or manipulated depictions of an identifiable person nude or in sexual conduct. Sextortion using deepfake images is therefore covered. The Legislature's passed-bills list shows it signed and effective February 27, 2025.

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

What it means for business

Deepfake sextortion threats are prosecutable as sexual extortion in Utah.

Key provisions

  1. Utah Code 76-5b-204: sexual extortion includes threatening to distribute a counterfeit intimate image
  2. Counterfeit intimate images include computer-generated, edited, generated or altered depictions of an identifiable person
  3. Signed and effective February 27, 2025

Latest legislative action

Feb 27, 2025. Governor Signed; Laws of Utah 2025, Chapter 12

Topics and industries

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Affected industries

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Same topic in other states

Tennessee SB1346 AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 28 and Title 39, Chapter 17, rel Wyoming HB85 Unlawful dissemination of an intimate image. Oklahoma HB1364 Crimes and punishments; sexual obscenity; making certain acts unlawful; effectiv New Hampshire HB1319 Relative to prohibiting the nonconsensual dissemination of synthetic sexual imag Connecticut HB7287 An Act Concerning the State Budget for the Biennium Ending June 30, 2027, and Ma Montana HB514 Criminalize use of real and digitally fabricated sexually explicit images