Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act

Bill: 115-hr-1588
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2017-03-16
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Broadcasting, cable, digital technologies

Military law

Photography and imaging

Right of privacy

Sex offenses
Latest action: action_date: 2017-04-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images.</p> <p>To be guilty of such offense, a person must have:</p> <ul> <li> 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; </li> <li>obtained the image under circumstances in which a reasonable person would know or understand that the image was to remain private; and </li> <li>known, or reasonably should have known, that the person depicted in the image has not consented to its broadcast or distribution.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1588 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 16, 2017 Ms. Speier (for herself, Mr. Bishop of Georgia , Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania , Mrs. Davis of California , Ms. Gabbard , Mr. Himes , Ms. Kuster of New Hampshire , Ms. Norton , Ms. Rosen , Ms. Shea-Porter , Mr. Walz , Mr. Costello of Pennsylvania , Mr. O'Halleran , and Ms. Frankel of Florida ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services A BILL To amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Servicemember Intimate Privacy Protection Act . 2. Prohibition on nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images (a) Prohibition Section 920c of title 10, United States Code (article 120c of the Uniform Code of Military Justice), is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsection (d): (d) Nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images Any person subject to this chapter who— (1) knowingly broadcasts or distributes a visual image of another person who— (A) is at least 18 years of age; (B) is identifiable from the image itself or from information displayed in connection with the image; and (C) is engaged in a sexual act or exposes a private area; (2) obtained the image under circumstances in which a reasonable person would know or understand that the image was to remain private; and (3) knows or reasonably should have known that the person depicted in the image has not consented to the broadcast or distribution, is guilty of nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to offenses committed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.