Law makes fake child abuse pictures a federal crime.
H.R. 6715 — Child Predators Accountability Act of 2025 · Filed by Mark Harris (R-NC) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Dec 15, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill makes it a crime to force a minor into sexual pictures. This covers fake pictures made by AI or editing. It closes a gap where fake pictures might escape prosecution.
Who it affects
Children are protected by this law. It makes it harder for people to create, share, or own fake sexual pictures of minors.
One thing to notice
The law now covers fake sexual pictures made by AI. No real child needs to be filmed or photographed.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Dec 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Dec 15, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary and Senate Committee on the Judiciary · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Dec 18, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute by Voice Vote”
- Jan 12, 2026 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H630)”
- Jan 12, 2026 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Harris (NC) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $3,584,111 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 67 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Mark Harris, who sponsored the bill, received $190,505 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Google Client Services LLC — $3,570,000 in 1 report
- The Sentencing Project — $14,111 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- fake pictures — Sexual images of children made by AI or computer editing, not real photos.
- federal crime — A serious illegal act that the U.S. government prosecutes, not just a state.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,312 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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