l9n/ New Jersey

2024–2025 Session

Assembly Bill 5004

Creates separate crime for items depicting sexual exploitation or abuse of children; concerns computer generated or manipulated sexually explicit images.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on October 20, 2025. The 2024–2025 session has ended.

Sponsors

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

In the General Assembly

6 co-sponsors

Sterley S. Stanley, Jessica Ramirez, Tennille R. McCoy, Shanique Speight, Margie Donlon M.D., Lisa Swain

Its course

October 28, 2024 to October 20, 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 action6 actions on 6 days

In the General AssemblyOct 28 to Jun 30245 days

Science, Innovation and TechnologyOct 28 to Apr 10164 days

JudiciaryApr 10 to May 828 days

AppropriationsMay 8 to Jun 1942 days

In the SenateJun 30 to Oct 20 · stopped112 days

JudiciaryOct 20 to Oct 20 · stopped0 days

Votes

Yeas to nays, as the Legislature recorded them. Committee votes are set in.

  • General Assembly, third reading80–0

    Passed · Jun 30, 2025

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • General Assembly committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Apr 10, 2025

  • General Assembly committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted May 8, 2025

  • General Assembly committee amendmentAdopted

    Adopted Jun 19, 2025

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 General Assembly Oct 28 – Jun 30, 2025

  1. Oct 28Introduced in the General Assembly and sent to Science, Innovation and Technology
  2. Apr 10, 2025Science, Innovation and Technology recommended it as amended
  3. Sent to Judiciary
  4. May 8, 2025Judiciary recommended it as amended
  5. Sent to Appropriations
  6. Jun 19, 2025Appropriations recommended it as amended
  7. Read a second time
  8. Jun 30, 2025Passed the General Assembly, 80 to 0

In the Senate Oct 20, 2025

  1. Oct 20, 2025Arrived in the Senate
  2. Sent to Judiciary
All 6 actions, as published
  1. Oct 28INT 1RA REF ASTGeneral Assembly
  2. Apr 10, 2025REP/ACA REF AJUGeneral Assembly
  3. May 8, 2025REP/ACA REF AAPGeneral Assembly
  4. Jun 19, 2025REP/ACA 2RAGeneral Assembly
  5. Jun 30, 2025PAGeneral Assembly
  6. Oct 20, 2025R/S REF SJUSenate