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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Mar 16, 2017
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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Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14] · D–CA
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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