CONSENT Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 9155 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9155 To establish a private right of action against a person who transmits unsolicited intimate visual depictions. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 4, 2026 Ms. McClellan (for herself and Mr. Moran) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To establish a private right of action against a person who transmits unsolicited intimate visual depictions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Curbing Online Non-consensual Sexually Explicit Nudity Transfers Act'' or the ``CONSENT Act''. SEC. 2. TRANSMISSION OF UNSOLICITED INTIMATE VISUAL DEPICTIONS. (a) Definitions.--In this section: (1) Consent.--The term ``consent'' means an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary authorization made by an individual free from force, fraud, duress, misrepresentation, or coercion. (2) Intimate digital forgery.--The term ``intimate digital forgery'' means any intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual that-- (A) falsely represents, in whole or in part-- (i) the identifiable individual; or (ii) the conduct or content that makes the intimate visual depiction intimate; (B) is created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means, including by adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering an authentic intimate visual depiction; and (C) is indistinguishable from an authentic intimate visual depiction of the identifiable individual when viewed as a whole by a reasonable person. (3) Intimate visual depiction.--The term ``intimate visu