86R760 KJE-F
 
  By: Menéndez S.B. No. 97
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the prosecution of the criminal offense of unlawful
  disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 21.16(b), Penal Code, is amended to read
  as follows:
         (b)  A person commits an offense if:
               (1)  without the effective consent of the depicted
  person and with the intent to harm that person, the person
  [intentionally] discloses visual material depicting another person
  with the person's intimate parts exposed or engaged in sexual
  conduct;
               (2)  the person knows or has reason to believe that the
  visual material was obtained by the person or created under
  circumstances in which the depicted person had a reasonable
  expectation that the visual material would remain private;
               (3)  the disclosure of the visual material causes harm
  to the depicted person; and
               (4)  the disclosure of the visual material reveals the
  identity of the depicted person in any manner, including through:
                     (A)  any accompanying or subsequent information
  or material related to the visual material; or
                     (B)  information or material provided by a third
  party in response to the disclosure of the visual material.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to an offense committed on or after the effective date of this Act.
  An offense committed before the effective date of this Act is
  governed by the law in effect on the date the offense was committed,
  and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. For
  purposes of this section, an offense was committed before the
  effective date of this Act if any element of the offense was
  committed before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.