Which 2024–2025 state bills proposed lowering sexual age-of-consent and who sponsored them in each state legislative database?
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Executive summary
A review of the supplied reporting finds no direct listings in those sources of U.S. state bills in 2024–2025 that explicitly proposed lowering the statutory age of sexual consent; the materials instead summarize current state-by-state consent ages and flag other legislative actions such as efforts to raise ages or change marriage rules (data aggregators and legal guides provide background on consent ages [1] [2] [3], while Wikipedia’s age-of-consent reform coverage cites examples of other reforms, including an Oklahoma bill that raised — not lowered — the age in 2025 and an international attempt in Iraq to lower it) [4].
1. What the sources actually contain about 2024–2025 bills
Across the provided sources, reporting centers on state-by-state age-of-consent summaries and on child-marriage legislation rather than on any catalog of U.S. legislative proposals to lower the sexual age-of-consent in 2024–2025; Datapandas, WorldPopulationReview and populationu present the landscape of current ages and close-in-age exceptions but do not list 2024–2025 bills that reduce those ages [1] [2] [3], and BillTrack50’s blog highlights state efforts to end or restrict child marriage and notes New Hampshire’s 2024 law raising the marriage age, not lowering sexual consent ages [5].
2. Explicit instances the sources do report — none lower U.S. consent ages in 2024–2025
The one concrete legislative citation in these extracts that touches 2024–2025 is Wikipedia’s age-of-consent reform timeline noting Oklahoma’s HB 1003 in 2025 increased the age of consent from 16 to 18, and an Iraqi parliamentary attempt in 2024 to lower the age to nine (which was later reversed) — both examples demonstrate reform activity but do not support the existence of U.S. state bills lowering consent ages in 2024–2025 in the supplied material [4].
3. Why the absence in these sources matters for answering the question
Because the assignment requests “which 2024–2025 state bills proposed lowering sexual age-of-consent and who sponsored them in each state legislative database,” the available documents do not supply state legislative bill numbers, sponsors, or state-database links for any bills that actually lower consent ages in that timeframe; the evidence in hand is therefore insufficient to enumerate sponsors or entries in state legislative databases and must not be invented or inferred beyond what these sources say [1] [2] [3] [5] [4].
4. Alternative angles present in the sources and potential agendas
The supplied coverage skews toward context-setting (maps and guides of current ages and “Romeo-and-Juliet” close-in-age exceptions) and toward legislative moves to raise age thresholds or clamp down on child marriage — narratives typically advanced by child-safety advocacy groups and legal reform trackers — which means readers should be alert that aggregated “age-of-consent” pages often reflect the status quo and reform victories rather than catalog controversial proposals to reduce protections [1] [2] [5].
5. Recommended next steps to locate sponsors and bill records if they exist
To answer the user’s question definitively beyond these sources requires targeted checks of individual state legislative databases and bill trackers (searching 2024–2025 session archives for keywords like “age of consent,” “statutory rape,” and “sexual consent” and reviewing bill texts and sponsor fields); the provided materials do not perform that archival search and therefore cannot supply bill numbers or sponsor names for any U.S. state bills lowering consent ages in 2024–2025 (the limitation is in the reporting reviewed) [1] [2] [3] [5] [4].
6. Bottom line for readers and researchers
Based solely on the supplied reporting, there is no documented list of U.S. state bills in 2024–2025 that proposed lowering the sexual age-of-consent and no sponsors identified in state legislative databases within these sources; the documentation instead highlights existing state ages, close-in-age exceptions, child-marriage reform activity, and at least one instance of an age being raised [1] [2] [3] [5] [4].