NevadaAdults face felony penalties for harmful sharing of realistic intimate images
Nevada law makes adults’ knowing sharing of convincing digital intimate images without prior consent a felony when intended to harass, harm, or terrorize, with public-interest and legal exceptions.
What it does
Adults face felony penalties for knowingly sharing realistic digital nude or sexual images without consent to harass, harm, or terrorize someone. Exceptions include legitimate public interest and lawful legal work.
People under 18 are exempt from this intimate-image sharing crime. The exemption covers both recorded images and realistic digital images.
Argument forFelony penalties could discourage adults from sharing convincing fake intimate images to harass people who never agreed to their distribution.
Argument againstThe under-18 exemption could leave victims without protection under this crime when teenagers deliberately share harmful intimate images.
More detail
Adults commit a felony when they knowingly share covered digital images, or cause others to share them, intending to harass, harm, or terrorize someone. Covered images show an identifiable person’s genitals, anus, fully exposed female nipple, or sexual activity. Public figures can also be covered. The image must look like an actual depiction of the person, who must not have agreed beforehand to its distribution. Images are excluded if the person is not clearly identifiable or voluntarily exposed themselves in a public or commercial setting. Exceptions cover legitimate public interest, reporting unlawful conduct, lawful police or correctional work, and investigations or legal proceedings.
The law exempts people under 18 from this crime. It covers both electronic sharing or sale of recorded intimate images and distribution of covered digital images. The exemption applies to this specific crime; it does not establish an exemption from other laws.
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- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 6Chapter 299.Latest
- Jun 5Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo.Became Law
- May 29Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- May 27Assembly Amendment No. 651 concurred in. To enrollment.Major
- May 22From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate. In Senate.Passed House
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 20From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 651.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 24From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To committee.Minor
- Apr 22Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (1st Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 21Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- Apr 18Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.
- Apr 17From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 339.) Reprinting dispensed with. Placed on General File.Minor
- Feb 19From printer. To committee.
- Feb 18Read first time. Referred to Committee on Judiciary. To printer.Introduced
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