[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3300 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3300

 To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the Department of 
Defense from selling, renting, or otherwise providing sexually explicit 
                      material to any individual.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 23, 1996

Mr. Smith of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, and Mr. 
Dornan of California) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit the Department of 
Defense from selling, renting, or otherwise providing sexually explicit 
                      material to any individual.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Honor and Decency Act of 
1996''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION OF SALE OR RENTAL OF SEXUALLY EXPLICIT MATERIAL.

    (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 147 of title 10, United States Code, 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 2490b. Sale or rental of sexually explicit material prohibited
    ``(a) Prohibition of Sale or Rental.--The Secretary of Defense may 
not permit the sale or rental of sexually explicit material on property 
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense.
    ``(b) Prohibition of Officially Provided Sexually Explicit 
Material.--A member of the Armed Forces or a civilian employee of the 
Department of Defense acting in an official capacity may not provide 
sexually explicit material to another person.
    ``(c) Regulations.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations to implement this section.
    ``(d) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) The term `sexually explicit material' means an audio 
        recording, a film or video recording, or a periodical, produced 
        in any medium, the dominant theme of which depicts or describes 
        nudity, including sexual or excretory activities or organs, in 
        a lascivious way.
            ``(2) The term `property under the jurisdiction of the 
        Department of Defense' includes commissaries, all facilities 
        operated by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy 
        Exchange Service Command, the Navy Resale and Services Support 
        Office, Marine Corps exchanges, and ship stores.''.
    (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 147 of title 
10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
new item:

``2490b. Sale or rental of sexually explicit material prohibited.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) of section 2490b of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a) of this Act, shall take 
effect 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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