A bounded reference to selected enacted measures and their limits, updated October 5, 2026. Provision verification dates appear separately from this analysis date.
In force since 2024-09-18 · provision verified 2026-09-24
Chapter 118 amends criminal harassment provisions to include specified digitized nude or sexual images. Its elements include an identifiable person and qualified intent or recklessness connected to injury or distress. Consent to creation does not itself establish consent to distribution.
Massachusetts uses the statutory concept of digitization, which can reach artificially created images without a general AI-specific framework. Scope analysis must preserve mental-state and harm elements and the statutory exceptions. The broader technology label should not displace those requirements.
Verify current codification and general effective-date calculation, later bills, attorney general implementation, and official court decisions. Selected current and concluded bills, agency rules, enforcement, and litigation have not been comprehensively screened. An omitted measure is not a finding that no relevant law exists.
This update expands the existing selected-law baseline using official legislative texts, codification, bill histories, and agency material. It distinguishes the act’s effective date from later duties and does not infer implementation from the passage of a deadline.
The analysis date is not a new verification date for every provision. Earlier dates remain where final text or date evidence was inaccessible. Only the separately identified in-force records enter the national export; proposed, future, and uncertain measures are excluded.
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