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Read. Follow. Verify.Missouri bill creates civil and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure of minor and intimate digital depictions
Last action · February 4, 2026: Voted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence CommitteeSponsor: Travis Fitzwater
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What This Bill Would Do
Missouri SB 1117 establishes "The Taylor Swift Act," creating civil causes of action and criminal penalties for disclosing or threatening to disclose unauthorized digital depictions of minors or intimate digital depictions of individuals without consent.
Depicted individuals gain the right to sue for damages and , while offenders face felony charges ranging from a for a first offense to a class C felony for repeat offenses or those affecting governmental proceedings or facilitating violence.
- State legislatures across the United States have increasingly introduced bills to address non-consensual intimate imagery and digitally manipulated media, often referred to as deepfakes. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Minors
Individuals under eighteen years of age receive legal protections against the non-consensual disclosure of digital depictions.
Interactive computer service providers
Providers are granted immunity from civil and criminal liability when voluntarily restricting access to unauthorized digital depictions in good faith.
Law enforcement officers
Officers are permitted to receive disclosures made in good faith during the course of reporting or investigating unlawful conduct.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
5 actions- Feb 4, 2026SenateCommitteeVoted Do Pass S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
- Jan 28, 2026SenateHearing Conducted S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
- Jan 15, 2026SenateFloorSecond Read and Referred S Judiciary and Civil and Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
- Jan 7, 2026SenateIntroducedS First Read
- Dec 1, 2025SenatePrefiled
Version history
Only one version on file - nothing to compare yet. The text on record is the 4960S.03I - Introduced version. As later stages (committee substitute, engrossed, enrolled) are captured, the redline appears here.
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Extensive Legislative Precedent
The bill's text references a large number of prior and concurrent bills from 2024, 2025, and 2026 addressing similar digital depiction provisions.
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Sources
www.senate.mo.gov
Analysis Score
0–100- Significance75How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment20Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz60Current news / social attention level
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