Enrolled Bill Summary

Legislative Session: 89(R)

89(R) SB 20

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Senate Bill 20	Effective: 9-1-25
Senate Author: Flores et al.	Senate Committee: Criminal Justice
House Sponsor: Capriglione	House Committee: Criminal Jurisprudence

Senate Bill 20 amends the Penal Code to create the state jail felony offense of possession, promotion, or production of certain visual material appearing to depict a child for a person who does the following:

knowingly possesses, accesses with intent to view, or promotes obscene visual material containing a depiction that appears to be of a child younger than 18 years of age engaging in certain patently offensive activities, regardless of whether the depiction is an image of an actual child, a cartoon or animation, or an image created using an artificial intelligence application or other computer software; or
uses an image of an actual child younger than 18 years of age at the time the image was made with the intent to train an artificial intelligence model to produce visual material constituting child pornography.

The bill enhances the penalty for the offense, ranging from a third degree felony to a second degree felony, based on the number of previous convictions of the person for such an offense or for obscenity, possession or promotion of child pornography, electronic transmission of certain visual material depicting a minor, or possession or promotion of lewd visual material depicting a child . The bill expands the conduct constituting the offense of engaging in organized criminal activity to include any possession, promotion, or production of certain visual material appearing to depict a child offense with the intent to establish, maintain, or participate in a combination or in the profits of a combination or as a member of a criminal street gang or foreign terrorist organization.