Tennessee digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Tennessee, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.
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Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Overall state posture signal
Mixed posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Tennessee Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Tennessee makes it a crime to create or share sexually explicit "deepfake" images of a real person without consent, and it treats AI- or computer-generated child sexual abuse material like imagery of a real child. The Preventing Deepfake Images Act (HB 1299 / SB 1346, Public Chapter 466), signed May 9, 2025, defines a deepfake as media generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence to realistically portray something that did not actually occur, and makes nonconsensual disclosure of an "intimate digital depiction" a Class E felony with civil damages up to $150,000. A companion law (SB 741, Public Chapter 257) criminalizes possessing, distributing, or producing the tools built to generate AI child sexual abuse material. Based on public records, both laws took effect July 1, 2025.
Educational summary only
Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Why this status
Based on direct statute tracking.
What this means
- Tennessee has an enacted, in-effect deepfake statute (Public Chapter 466) that specifically reaches AI-generated sexually explicit images of real people, alongside an in-effect law (Public Chapter 257) targeting AI-generated child sexual abuse material tools.
What to do next
- Read the cited statute or bill text linked below to confirm the specifics for your state.
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Official sources
3TN General Assembly — HB 1299 / SB 1346 (Preventing Deepfake Images Act), Public Chapter 466
Official textCitation: HB 1299 / SB 1346 caption is 'relative to the unauthorized use of deepfake or actual likeness'; passed both chambers April 2025, signed by Gov. Lee May 9, 2025, became Public Chapter 466, effective July 1, 2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceTN General Assembly — HB 1299 enrolled bill text (PDF)
Official textCitation: Official enrolled-bill PDF for HB 1299 / SB 1346 resolved (60.9KB), header 'SENATE BILL 1346 By Yarbro / HOUSE BILL 1299 By Lamberth'; source text of the Preventing Deepfake Images Act.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceTN General Assembly — SB 741 (AI-generated CSAM tools), Public Chapter 257
Official textCitation: SB 0741 (Yager), Public Chapter 257, criminalizes possessing/distributing/producing technology designed to create material that includes a minor engaged in sexual or simulated sexual activity; signed April 29, 2025, effective July 1, 2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
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Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
TN General Assembly — HB 1299 / SB 1346 (Preventing Deepfake Images Act), Public Chapter 466
TN General Assembly — HB 1299 enrolled bill text (PDF)
TN General Assembly — SB 741 (AI-generated CSAM tools), Public Chapter 257
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