Connecticut SB 483: AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CRIME OF DIGITAL DEFRAUDING.

Bill Text

Substitute Senate Bill No. 483 
 
Public Act No. 26-119 
 
 
AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CRIME OF DIGITAL DEFRAUDING. 
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section  1.  Section  53a-119  of  the  general  statutes  is  amended  by 
adding subdivision (19) as follows (Effective October 1, 2026): 
(NEW) (19) Digital defrauding. (A) A  person is guilty of digital 
defrauding when such person, with intent to cause financial injury to 
another person, creates and disseminates a visual representation or 
audio recording that such person knows or should have known is a 
digitally  forged  likeness.  (B) For  purposes  of  this  subdivision,  (i) 
"disseminate"  means  to  sell,  give,  provide,  lend,  trade,  mail,  deliver, 
transfer,  publish,  distribute,  circulate,  present,  exhibit,  advertise  or 
otherwise   offer;   and (ii) "Digitally  forged  likeness"  means  any 
photograph, film, videotape or other visual representation of a person 
or an audio recording of a person's voice that (I) is not wholly recorded 
by a camera or an audio recorder, or either partially or wholly generated 
by a computer system, (II) depicts, and is virtually indistinguishable 
from what a reasonable person would believe is the actual depiction of 
an identifiable person's image or voice, and (III) is created without the 
consent of the person whose image or voice is depicted. (C) In any 
prosecution  for  an  offense  under  this  subdivision,  it  shall  be  an 
affirmative defense that the defendant took reasonable action to place 

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viewers or listeners of a digitally forged likeness on notice that such 
visual representation or audio recording is a digitally forged likeness. 
(D) Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to impose liability on 
the  provider  of  an  interactive  computer  service,  as  defined  in  47  USC 
230,   an   information   service,   as   defined   in   47   USC   153,   or   a 
telecommunications  service,  as  defined  in  section  16-247a,  for  the 
creation of content at the request of another person or the dissemination 
of content provided by another person, provided such provider did not 
know that such content was being created or disseminated in violation 
of this subdivision. 
 
 
 
Governor's Action: 
Approved June 4, 2026