l9n/ Mississippi

2025 Regular Session

Senate Bill 2796

Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act; enact.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate on February 13, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO ENACT THE "ENSURING LIKENESS, VOICE AND IMAGE SECURITY ACT OF 2025"; TO DEFINE TERMS; TO STIPULATE THAT EVERY INDIVIDUAL HAS A PROPERTY RIGHT IN THE USE OF THAT INDIVIDUAL'S NAME, PHOTOGRAPH, VOICE OR LIKENESS; TO STIPULATE THAT PROPERTY RIGHTS PROVIDED IN THIS ACT ARE EXCLUSIVE TO THE INDIVIDUAL; TO IMPLEMENT COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION GUIDELINES; TO CREATE A CIVIL ACTION UPON VIOLATION OF THIS ACT; TO STIPULATE THAT VIOLATION OF THIS ACT IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR; TO DESCRIBE THE ABILITIES OF THE COURT IN CASES CONCERNING THIS ACT; TO ALLOW THE COURT TO GRANT INJUNCTIONS; TO DESCRIBE REMEDIES AVAILABLE UNDER THIS ACT; TO DESCRIBE FAIR USE EXCEPTIONS TO THIS ACT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

Its course

January 20 to February 13, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action3 actions on 3 days

In the SenateJan 20 to Feb 13 · stopped24 days

Judiciary, Division BJan 20 to Jan 288 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the Senate Jan 20 – Feb 13

  1. Referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary, Division B
  2. Reported from committee in the Senate: title sufficient, do pass as a committee substitute
  3. Died on the calendar in the Senate
All 3 actions, as published