SupportOhio·2025Updated August 28, 2026
AI-generated child sexual abuse material and phones in school
SB 163Proponent testimony given
Prohibits AI-generated child pornography and gives districts a rule for cell phones during the school day.
Issues Technology
As the legislature titles itTo amend sections 1345.51, 2907.321, 2907.322, 2907.323, and 2913.49 and to enact sections 1349.13 and 1349.14 of the Revised Code to require AI-generated products to have a watermark, to prohibit simulated child pornography, and to prohibit identity fraud using a replica of a person.
CCV at the Statehouse
16 people filed testimony on this bill in total. The full witness record is the legislature’s.
SB 163
Bill author
Louis W. Blessing, IIISenate district 8, with 20 co-sponsors
Heard in
House Technology and Innovation, Senate Judiciary8 hearings on the record
Bill text
CCV’s reporting
Timeline
- Most recent
- Jun 2, 20261st Hearing: House Technology and Innovation, chaired by Thaddeus J. Claggett
- May 20, 20267th Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- May 13, 20266th Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- Mar 25, 20265th Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- Mar 4, 20264th Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- Jun 18, 20253rd Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- May 7, 20252nd Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- Apr 9, 20251st Hearing: Senate Judiciary, chaired by Nathan H. Manning
- Earliest
Committee hearings as the Ohio Legislature records them. CCV’s own account of this bill is the post named above, dated May 7, 2025.
