US HB1588 | 2017-2018 | 115th Congress

Status

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-2)
Status: Introduced on March 16 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-04-05 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Military Personnel Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

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.

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Title

Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act

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History

DateChamberAction
2017-04-05HouseReferred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
2017-03-16HouseReferred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
2017-03-16HouseIntroduced in House

Same As/Similar To

SB1346 (Related) 2017-06-13 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.

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