HB2462
Unauthorized use of name, portrait, etc.; digital replica, civil liability, statute of limitations.
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Unauthorized use of name, portrait, voice, likeness, or picture of any person; digital replica; civil liability; statute of limitations.
Expands the existing ability for any person to maintain a suit in equity, including the accompanying remedies available, for the unauthorized use of his name, portrait, or picture for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade to include the unauthorized use of his voice or likeness. The bill also ... (More) creates civil liability for a person who produces, distributes, or makes available the digital replica, defined in the bill, of a person's voice or likeness in an expressive audiovisual work or sound recording without prior written consent, with exceptions enumerated in the bill. The bill also extends the current statute of limitations for such civil suits from 20 years to 100 years after the death of such person. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100156D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation
- 01/23/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
- 01/23/2025 - House: Assigned CT & I sub: Communications
- 01/24/2025 - House: Placed on Communications, Technology and Innovation Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 3-N)
- 01/27/2025 - House: Reported from Communications, Technology and Innovation with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 01/27/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106067D-H1
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
- 01/29/2025 - House: Read first time
- 01/30/2025 - House: Read second time
- 01/30/2025 - House: Communications, Technology and Innovation Substitute agreed to
- 01/30/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (55-Y 41-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107592D-S1
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute agreed to
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (22-Y 17-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2025 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House (1-Y 97-N)
- 02/20/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2462)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/20/2025 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senators: Surovell, Deeds, Reeves
- 02/20/2025 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/20/2025 - House: Delegates: Glass, Hayes, Wright
- 02/22/2025 - House: No further action taken
- 02/22/2025 - House: Failed to Pass from conference
