HB161 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Parker Moore Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

Crimes & offenses, prohibits a person from creating a private image without consent

Description

This bill would provide that it is unlawful for any person to knowingly create, record, or alter a private image when the depicted individual has not consented to the creation, recording, or alteration and the depicted individual had a reasonable expectation of privacy against the creation, recording, or alteration of the private image.

Under existing law, a private image includes a recording that has been edited, altered, or otherwise manipulated from its original form.

This bill would provide that a private image also includes an image or recording that a reasonable person would believe actually depicts an identifiable individual, regardless of whether any portion of the image or recording depicts another individual or is artificially generated.

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 HB161 INTRODUCED vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the section. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the section.

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Subjects

Crimes & Offenses