House Bill 102 (2026), Enrolled Act No. 32 / Chapter 91: protecting kids from deepfakes and exploitative images (AI-related criminal offences)

Record US-WY-01 · HB0102 (2026); House Enrolled Act No. 32; 2026 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 91

Issued by: Wyoming Legislature (68th Legislature, 2026 Budget Session; sponsor Rep. Lien); signed by the Governor
Jurisdiction: Wyoming (US)
Level · region: Sub-national · North America
Country: United States
Published / adopted: 2026-03-07
In force: 2026-07-01
Language: English
Official identifier: HB0102 (2026); House Enrolled Act No. 32; 2026 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 91

Summary

Creates crimes involving AI: distributing, promoting or threatening to distribute nonconsensual synthetic sexual material of an identifiable person (W.S. 6-4-307), and knowingly developing or distributing an AI system specifically designed to create child pornography or synthetic sexual material (6-4-308) or to promote self-harm (6-4-701), each a felony with up to ten years' imprisonment. Using AI to generate child pornography is sexual exploitation of a child. Using AI to commit a crime is no defence (6-1-206), and developers are immune from damages for misuse by others unless the system was developed knowing or intending that its primary purpose would be illegal or illicit (1-1-143).

Safety topics

deepfakes & synthetic mediachild safetyprohibited practicesaccountability & liability

Status notes

Passed the House 61-0 (21 Feb 2026) and, with Senate amendments, the Senate 31-0 (5 Mar 2026); the House concurred 58-1 on 6 Mar 2026. Signed by the Governor on 7 Mar 2026 and assigned Chapter 91, Session Laws of Wyoming 2026; effective 1 Jul 2026. The Act's title still refers to offences concerning the use of AI to censor political speech, but its enacted sections create no such offence. A second conviction for distributing synthetic sexual material carries up to twelve years. The development offences do not apply to systems that produce such content solely in response to user prompts without the developer's intent, to bona fide school, college, university, museum or public library activities, to law enforcement and judicial activities, or to interactive computer services for content provided by others; the self-harm offence also exempts licensed health care providers giving legitimate medical or therapeutic services.

Sources

Open the official source https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/HB0102.pdf

Secondary source: https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2026/HB0102

Local copy

Archived. The secondary source is a bot-check or empty page (The page is a JavaScript application shell; the saved copy holds only the site's navigation, not the document). Last attempt 2026-10-18 00:09:24 UTC

Official source (third-party copy, not published) archive/US-WY-01/2026-10-12/official.pdf

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:49:21 UTC

SHA-256 b3edef51fc46ff069dce33a85b58375f0c261b2a50b125b6d9bc766ef77c3728

Secondary source (third-party copy, not published) archive/US-WY-01/2026-10-12/secondary.html

Retrieved 2026-10-12 04:49:23 UTC

SHA-256 ff807558436e3c92c975af423b019a4864b3a8e2b038e0100696d4e713a8c591

Warning: The page is a JavaScript application shell; the saved copy holds only the site's navigation, not the document

Verification

The instrument's own official text, or an official register, was stored and confirms the title, date and status. checked 2026-10-18 · official-url-fetched

Recheck of 18 Oct 2026: re-read the enrolled act for HB0102 (House Enrolled Act No. 32), stored 12 Oct 2026 from wyoleg.gov (the archiver found it unchanged on 17 Oct 2026), and the Legislative Service Office bill digest for HB0102, stored in this run from wyoleg.gov. The enrolled act confirms the title, the offences, penalties and exemptions, the developer immunity and the 1 Jul 2026 effective date (Section 3); its approval lines are blank. The digest confirms the catch title, the sponsors, the votes, the Governor's signature of HEA No. 0032 on 7 Mar 2026 and Chapter 91. The bill page stored as the secondary source is an empty JavaScript shell. The stored files do not name the Governor, so the issuing body no longer does.

Second check: Independent check by Claude Code (claude-sonnet-5-5), 2026-10-18: 7 field(s) supported.

History

2026-10-18notes: Signed 7 Mar 2026 and assigned Chapter 91; effective 1 Jul 2026. Unlike the comp → Passed the House 61-0 (21 Feb 2026) and, with Senate amendments, the Senate 31-0 — rewritten: votes from the digest, and the title discrepancy, the repeat-offence penalty and the exemptions from the enrolled act added; the comparison with chatbot statutes removed2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18summary: Creates criminal offences for the use of AI against children and others: unlawfu → Creates crimes involving AI: distributing, promoting or threatening to distribut — corrected: the old summary described 6-4-701 as covering AI systems that 'censor political speech'; the enacted 6-4-701 covers self-harm only (the political-speech offence survives only in the Act's title). AI-generated child pornography under 6-4-303 added2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)
2026-10-18issuing_body: Wyoming Legislature (68th Legislature, 2026 Budget Session; sponsor Rep. Lien); → Wyoming Legislature (68th Legislature, 2026 Budget Session; sponsor Rep. Lien); — the stored files do not name the Governor; 'signed by Governor Mark Gordon' becomes 'signed by the Governor'2026-10-18-recheck-americas-1 · Claude Code (claude-opus-5-5)

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Citation

Wyoming Legislature (68th Legislature, 2026 Budget Session; sponsor Rep. Lien); signed by the Governor. House Bill 102 (2026), Enrolled Act No. 32 / Chapter 91: protecting kids from deepfakes and exploitative images (AI-related criminal offences) [HB0102 (2026); House Enrolled Act No. 32; 2026 Wyo. Sess. Laws ch. 91]. 2026-03-07. https://wyoleg.gov/2026/Enroll/HB0102.pdf. Status: In force; verified 2026-10-18 (level A). Local copy archive/US-WY-01/2026-10-12/official.pdf retrieved 2026-10-12 04:49:21 UTC, SHA-256 b3edef51fc46ff069dce33a85b58375f0c261b2a50b125b6d9bc766ef77c3728. Every AI Policy Ever, version 1.18 (snapshot 2026-10-18), record US-WY-01.

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