Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB35 Compare Versions

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3	3	SB35
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5	5	By Senator Allen
6	6	RFD: Judiciary
7	7	First Read: 04-Feb-25
8	8	PFD: 31-Dec-24
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17	17	SYNOPSIS:
18	18	Under existing law, a person commits the crime
19	19	of sexual extortion if he or she knowingly causes or
20	20	attempts to cause another person to engage in a sexual
21	21	act or to produce any photograph, digital image, video,
22	22	film, or other recording of any person, whether
23	23	recognizable or not, engaged in any sexual conduct by
24	24	communicating any threat to injure the body, property,
25	25	or reputation of any person.
26	26	This bill would further provide that a person
27	27	commits the crime of sexual extortion if he or she
28	28	knowingly threatens to release or transmit any
29	29	photograph, digital image, video, film, or other
30	30	recording of any individual, whether recognizable or
31	31	not, engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct in
32	32	order to compel or attempt to compel the victim to do
33	33	any act or refrain from doing any act against his or
34	34	her will.
35	35	A BILL
36	36	TO BE ENTITLED
37	37	AN ACT
38	38	Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section
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68	68	Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section
69	69	13A-6-241; to add additional activity that would constitute
70	70	the crime of sexual extortion.
71	71	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
72	72	Section 1. Section 13A-6-241, Code of Alabama 1975, is
73	73	amended to read as follows:
74	74	"§13A-6-241
75	75	(a) A person commits the crime of sexual extortion if
76	76	he or she does any of the following:
77	77	(1) knowingly Knowingly causes or attempts to cause
78	78	another person individual to engage in sexual intercourse,
79	79	sodomy, sexual contact, or in a sexual act sexually explicit
80	80	conduct by communicating any threat to injure the body,
81	81	property, or reputation of any individual.
82	82	(2) or Knowingly causes or attempts to cause another
83	83	individual to produce any photograph, digital image, video,
84	84	film, or other recording of any personindividual, whether
85	85	recognizable or not, engaged in any act of sadomasochistic
86	86	abuse, sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual excitement,
87	87	masturbation, breast nudity, genital nudity, or other sexual
88	88	conduct sexually explicit conduct by communicating any threat
89	89	to injure the body, property, or reputation of any
90	90	personindividual.
91	91	(3) Knowingly threatens to release or transmit any
92	92	photograph, digital image, video, film, or other recording of
93	93	any individual, whether recognizable or not, engaged in any
94	94	act of sexually explicit conduct in order to compel or attempt
95	95	to compel the victim to do any act or refrain from doing any
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126	126	act against his or her will.
127	127	(b) Sexual extortion is a Class B felony .
128	128	(c) For the purposes of this section, the term
129	129	"sexually explicit conduct" has the same meaning as defined in
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131	131	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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