Missouri SB 1506: SB 1506 - This act establishes the offense of generating, soliciting, or promoting or possessing with the intent to promote an altered sexual depiction, as defined in the act, of an identifiable person. A person commits such offense if the person: • Generates any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent; • Solicits any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent and knows or reasonable should know that the depiction is an altered sexual depiction; or • Willfully and maliciously promotes, or possesses with the intent to maliciously promote, any altered sexual depiction of an identifiable person without the person's consent and knows or reasonably should know that the depiction is an altered sexual depiction. A violation of this act is committed within Missouri if any conduct that is an element of the offense, or any harm to the depicted person resulting from the offense, occurs within Missouri. The offense shall be a class C felony. Each act shall constitute a separate offense. Furthermore, a disclaimer that a depicted individual did not consent to the generation or promotion of the material or that the depicted individual did not perform the actions portrayed shall not be a defense. This act additionally provides that an aggrieved person may bring a civil action against a person who generates or who, with knowledge that a visual depiction is an altered sexual depiction, willfully and maliciously promotes, or possesses with the intent to maliciously promote, any altered sexual depiction of a depicted individual without the person's consent. A person may be entitled to injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and monetary damages of $10,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. This act defines a covered platform as a website, online service, online application, or mobile application that serves the public and that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content or for which in the regular course of business the entity publishes, curates, hosts, or makes available nonconsensual altered sexual depictions. Covered platforms shall not include an information or telecommunications service, email, and certain online services, applications, or websites that consist primarily of content that is not user generated but preselected by the provider and for which any chat, comment, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content. No later than December 31, 2026, covered platforms shall establish a process where an identifiable person or an authorized person for such identifiable person may notify the covered platform of an altered sexual depiction published on the covered platform. The identifiable person or authorized person may submit a written request, as provided in the act, that the covered platform remove such altered sexual depiction. No later than 48 hours after receiving such request, a covered platform shall remove the altered sexual depiction and make reasonable efforts to identify and remove any known identical copies of such altered sexual depiction. Additionally, covered platforms shall provide a notice of the notification and removal process. Failure to comply with the notice and removal requirements of this act shall be an unlawful practice under Missouri Merchandising Practices Act. However, a covered platform shall not be liable for any claim based on the covered platform's good faith removal of or access to the nonconsensual altered sexual depiction based on facts or circumstances from which the publishing of an altered sexual depiction is apparent. The criminal and civil liability shall not apply to the following: • Providers of an interactive computer service, information service, or communications service that provides the transmission, storage, or caching of other's electronic communications or messages; • Providers of another related telecommunications or commercial mobile radio service; • Providers of content provided by another person; • Law enforcement officers or any local, state, federal, or military law enforcement agencies engaged in the performance of duties as a law enforcement officer or the duties of the law enforcement agency; • Persons reporting unlawful activity; or • Persons participating in hearings, trials, or other legal proceedings. This act is substantially similar to HB 2361 (2026). KATIE O'BRIEN

Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION 
SENATE BILL NO. 1506 
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR HUDSON. 
6400S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary 
 
AN ACT 
To amend chapter 537, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to altered sexual 
depictions, with penalty provisions. 
 
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: 
     Section A.  Chapter 537, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1 
one new section, to be known as section 537.585, to read as 2 
follows:3 
     537.585.  1.  As used in this section, the following  1 
terms mean: 2 
     (1)  "Altered sexual depiction", any visual depiction  3 
that, as a result of any type of digital, electronic,  4 
mechanical, or other modification, alteration, or  5 
adaptation, depicts a realistic version of an identifiable  6 
person: 7 
     (a)  With the nude body parts of another person as the  8 
nude body parts of the identifiable person; 9 
     (b)  With computer-generated nude body parts as the  10 
nude body parts of the identifiable person; or 11 
     (c)  Engaging in sexual conduct in which the  12 
identifiable person did not engage; 13 
     (2)  "Communication services", the transmission,  14 
conveyance, or routing of voice, data, audio, video, or any  15 
other information or signals, including video services, to a  16 
point, or between or among points, by or through any  17 

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electronic, radio, satellite, cable, optical, microwave, or  18 
other medium or method now in existence or hereafter  19 
devised, regardless of the protocol used for such  20 
transmission or conveyance.  The term "communication  21 
services" includes such transmission, conveyance, or routing  22 
for which computer processing applications are used to act  23 
on the form, code, or protocol of the content for purposes  24 
of transmission, conveyance, or routing without regard to  25 
whether such service is referred to as voice over internet  26 
protocol services or is classified by the Federal  27 
Communications Commission as enhanced or value-added.  The  28 
term "communication services" shall not include: 29 
     (a)  Information services; 30 
     (b)  Installation or maintenance of wiring or equipment  31 
on a customer's premises; 32 
     (c)  The sale or rental of tangible personal property; 33 
     (d)  The sale of advertising including, but not limited  34 
to, directory advertising; 35 
     (e)  Bad check charges; 36 
     (f)  Late payment charges; 37 
     (g)  Billing and collection services; or 38 
     (h)  Internet access service, email service, electronic  39 
bulletin board service, or similar online computer services; 40 
     (3)  "Covered platform", a website, online service,  41 
online application, or mobile application that serves the  42 
public and: 43 
     (a)  That primarily provides a forum for user-generated  44 
content, including messages, videos, images, games, and  45 
audio files; or 46 
     (b)  For which it is in the regular course of trade or  47 
business of the website, online service, online application,  48 

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or mobile application to publish, curate, host, or make  49 
available content of nonconsensual altered sexual depictions; 50 
     (4)  "Generate", to create, alter, adapt, or modify any  51 
image by electronic, mechanical, or other computer-generated  52 
means to portray an identifiable person or to offer or agree  53 
to do the same; 54 
     (5)  "Identifiable person", a person who is  55 
recognizable as an actual person by the person's face,  56 
likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic, such as a  57 
unique birthmark, or other recognizable feature; 58 
     (6)  "Nude body parts", the human male or female  59 
genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than fully  60 
opaque covering; or the female breast with less than a fully  61 
opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the  62 
nipple; or the depiction of covered male genitals in a  63 
discernibly turgid state.  The term "nude body parts" does  64 
not include a breast-feeding mother; 65 
     (7)  "Promote", to issue, sell, give, provide, lend,  66 
mail, deliver, transfer, transmit, transmute, publish,  67 
distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, send,  68 
post, share, or advertise or to offer or agree to do the  69 
same; 70 
     (8)  "Visual depiction", includes, but is not limited  71 
to, a photograph, picture, image, motion picture, film,  72 
video, or other visual representation. 73 
     2.  A person commits the offense of generating,  74 
soliciting, or promoting or possessing with the intent to  75 
promote an altered sexual depiction of an identifiable  76 
person if the person: 77 
     (1)  Generates any altered sexual depiction of an  78 
identifiable person without the consent of the identifiable  79 
person; 80 

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     (2)  Solicits any altered sexual depiction of an  81 
identifiable person without the consent of the identif