Illinois House Bill 4763 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on January 7 2025 - 100% progression
Action: 2025-01-07 - Session Sine Die
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creates the Digital Forgeries Act. Provides that an individual depicted in a digital forgery has a cause of action against any person who, without the consent of the depicted individual, knowingly distributes a digital forgery, creates a digital forgery with intent to distribute, or solicits the creation of a digital forgery with the intent to distribute: (i) in order to harass, extort, threaten, or cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to an individual falsely depicted; (ii) with reckless disregard for whether such a creation, distribution, reproduction, or manipulation will cause physical, emotional, reputational, or economic harm to an individual falsely depicted; or (iii) in order to incite violence or interfere with an official proceeding. Provides that the Act does not apply to a digital forgery that is clearly and conspicuously identified to make clear to a reasonable person that the audiovisual material was created through the use of artificial intelligence, or is not an authentic record of an act, a statement, or the conduct, absence, or presence of an individual, such as parody or satire, unless the material appears to be a sexual image as defined in the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act. Provides that a depicted individual's consent to the creation of a digital forgery shall not alone establish consent to the distribution of that digital forgery, nor shall consent to previous disclosure of a digital forgery alone establish that the depicted individual consented to subsequent disclosures. Allows a prevailing plaintiff to be awarded damages, costs, and additional relief. Allows the court to grant injunctive relief maintaining the confidentiality of a plaintiff using a pseudonym.

DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT

Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-07	House	Session Sine Die
2024-04-05	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-04-05	House	Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
2024-03-20	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Judiciary - Civil Committee
2024-03-18	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
2024-03-18	House	House Committee Amendment No. 1 Filed with Clerk by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
2024-02-14	House	Assigned to Judiciary - Civil Committee
2024-02-06	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-02-06	House	First Reading
2024-02-05	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=4763&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB4763.htm
Amendment	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB4763ham001.htm