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HR 1588 115th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies Military law Photography and imaging Right of privacy Sex offenses

Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act

Introduced: March 16, 2017 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Apr 5, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Mar 16, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Mar 16, 2017
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act

This bill amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images.

To be guilty of such offense, a person must have:

  • knowingly broadcast or distributed a visual image of another person who is at least 18 years of age, who is identifiable from the image itself or from information displayed in connection with the image, and who is engaged in a sexual act or exposes a private area;
  • obtained the image under circumstances in which a reasonable person would know or understand that the image was to remain private; and
  • known, or reasonably should have known, that the person depicted in the image has not consented to its broadcast or distribution.
What's happening now April 5, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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