Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB3639 Amended / Bill

Filed 04/03/2024

                     
 
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SENATE FLOOR VERSION 
April 2, 2024 
 
 
ENGROSSED HOUSE 
BILL NO. 3639 	By: Hasenbeck of the House 
 
  and 
 
  Treat of the Senate 
 
 
 
 
An Act relating to crimes and punishments; amending 
21 O.S. 2021, Section 1040.13b, which relates to the 
Oklahoma Law on Obscen ity and Child Pornography; 
modifying scope of certain unlawful acts; clarifying 
penalty provisions; increasing penalty for certain 
unlawful acts; providing for the prosecution of other 
unlawful acts; making certain acts unlawful; 
providing penalty; and pro viding an effective date . 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     AMENDATORY     21 O.S. 2021, Section 1040.13b, is 
amended to read as follows: 
Section 1040.13b  A.  As used in this section: 
1.  "Image" includes a photograph, film, videotape, digital 
recording or other depiction or portrayal of an object, including a 
human body; 
2.  "Intimate parts" means the fully unclothed, partially 
unclothed or transparently clothed genitals, pubic area or female 
adult nipple; and   
 
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3.  "Sexual act" means sexual intercourse including genital, 
anal or oral sex. 
B.  A person commits nonconsensual dissemination of private 
sexual images when he or she: 
1.  Intentionally disseminates an image of another person : 
a. who is at least eighteen (18) years of age, 
b. who is identifiable from the image itself or 
information displayed in connection with the image, 
and 
c. who is engaged in a sexual act or whose intimate parts 
are exposed, in whole or in part; 
2.  Disseminates the image wi th the intent to harass, intimidate 
or coerce the person, or under circumstances in which a reasonable 
person would know or understand that dissemination of the image 
would harass, intimidate or coerce the person; 
3. Obtains the image under circumstances in which a reasonable 
person would know or understand that the image was to remain 
private; and 
4.  Knows or a reasonable person should have known that the 
person in 3.  Disseminates the image has not consented to the 
dissemination without the effective co nsent of the depicted per son. 
C.  The provisions of this section shall not apply to the 
intentional dissemination of an image of another identifiable person   
 
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who is engaged in a sexual act or whose intimate parts are exposed 
when: 
1.  The dissemination is m ade for the purpose of a criminal 
investigation that is otherwise lawful; 
2.  The dissemination is for the purpose of, or in connection 
with, the reporting of unlawful conduct; 
3.  The images involve voluntary exposure in public or 
commercial settings; or 
4.  The dissemination ser ves a lawful purpose. 
D.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose 
liability upon the following entities solely as a result of content 
or information provided by another person: 
1.  An interactive computer service, as d efined in 47 U.S.C., 
Section 230(f)(2); 
2.  A wireless service provider, as defined in Section 332(d) of 
the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C., Section 151 et seq., 
Federal Communications Commission rules, and the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103 -66; or 
3.  A telecommunications network or broadband provider. 
E.  A person convicted under this section is subject to the 
forfeiture provisions in Section 1040.54 of this title. 
F.  Any person who violates the provisions of subsection B of 
this section shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor 
punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one   
 
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(1) year or by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars 
($1,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment. 
G.  Any person who violates or attempts to violate the 
provisions of subsection B of this section and who gains or attempts 
to gain financially any property or who gains or attempts to gain 
anything of value as a result of the nonconsensual dissemination or 
threatened dissemination of private sexual images shall , upon 
conviction, be guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the 
custody of the Department of Corrections for not more than four (4) 
five (5) years.  A second or subsequent violation of this subse ction 
shall be a felony punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the 
Department of Corrections for not more than ten (10) years and the 
offender shall be required to register as a sex offender under the 
Sex Offenders Registration Act. 
H.  The state shall not have the discretion to file a 
misdemeanor charge, pursuant to Section 234 of Title 22 of the 
Oklahoma Statutes, for a violation pursuant to subsection G of this 
section. 
I.  The court shall have the authority to order the defendant to 
remove the disseminated image should th e court find it is in the 
power of the defendant to do so. 
J.  Nothing in this section shall prohibit the prosecution of a 
person pursuant to the provision s of Section 1021.2, 1021.3, 1024.1, 
1024.2, or 1040.12a of this title or an y other applicable statute.   
 
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K.  Any person who violates the provisions of subsection B of 
this section by disseminating three or more images within a six -
month period shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a felony 
punishable by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of 
Corrections for not more than ten (10) years. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2024. 
COMMITTEE REPORT BY: COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY 
April 2, 2024 - DO PASS