Representatives Nathaniel Moran (TX-01) and Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) and Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Brian Schatz (D-HI) reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Curbing Online Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Nudity Transfers (CONSENT) Act to prohibit the nonconsensual sharing of intimate images across social media platforms and dating apps.
Introduce and support legislation to prohibit the nonconsensual sharing of intimate images across social media platforms and dating apps, including AI-generated abuse.
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Representatives Nathaniel Moran ... reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Curbing Online Non-Consensual Sexually Explicit Nudity Transfers (CONSENT) Act to prohibit the nonconsensual sharing of intimate images across social media platforms and dating apps.
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The enacted law amends federal communications law to prohibit intentional publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and includes "digital forgery" content created through software, machine learning, or artificial intelligence.
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GovInfo records H.R. 9155 as introduced in the 119th Congress by Rep. Jennifer McClellan for herself and Rep. Nathaniel Moran, then referred to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill creates a federal civil action for unsolicited intimate visual depictions and defines covered images to include AI-created or altered intimate digital forgeries.
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Rep. Moran's office announced that Moran and Rep. McClellan, with Senators Blackburn and Schatz, reintroduced the CONSENT Act to address nonconsensual intimate-image sharing on social media and dating apps, including AI-generated abuse. Moran said AI abuse made the legislation more urgent.
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Moran fulfilled the promise in federal office by serving as an original House cosponsor/co-introducer of H.R. 9155, the CONSENT Act, in the 119th Congress. The bill specifically addresses unsolicited/nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and includes AI-created or altered intimate digital forgeries, matching the promised subject matter involving social media and dating-app abuse. Separately, the TAKE IT DOWN Act became law in the same congressional term and covers nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and AI digital forgeries, but the clearest candidate-credit basis is Moran's own same-term introduction/support of the CONSENT Act.
The policy outcome was substantially achieved in Nathaniel Moran's current federal term when the TAKE IT DOWN Act became law on May 19, 2025, prohibiting intentional publication of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and covering AI-generated digital forgeries. That said, the available evidence ties the enacted measure primarily to other lawmakers rather than showing Moran as a lead sponsor or a clearly material driver of passage. Given the candidate-credit rule, this supports partial rather than full delivery: the promised policy was enacted in the same term, but Moran's personal role in delivering that exact outcome is not strongly established by the record provided.