[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1588 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1588

     To amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the 
          nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images.


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                    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

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice to prohibit the 
          nonconsensual distribution of private sexual images.

    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 ``Servicemember Intimate Privacy 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 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.
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