An Act
ENROLLED HOUSE
BILL NO. 3642 By: Hasenbeck, Dollens, and
Stark of the House
and
Treat and Jett of the
Senate
An Act relating to crimes and punishments; a mending
21 O.S. 2021, Sections 1021.2, 1024.1 and 1040.12a,
which relate to the Oklahoma Law on Obscenity and
Child Pornography; modifying scope of c ertain
unlawful act; updating certain defined terms;
defining terms; updating statutory references; and
providing an effective date .
SUBJECT: Crimes and punishments
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1021.2, i s
amended to read as follows:
Section 1021.2 A. Any person who shall procure or cause the
participation of any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years in
any child pornography or obscene material or who knowingly
possesses, views, accesses, shares, s treams, downloads, procures,
sells, distributes, or manufactures, or causes to be possessed,
viewed, accessed, sh ared, streamed, downloaded, procured, sold or,
distributed, or manufactured any child pornography shall be guilty,
upon conviction, be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by
imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not
more than twenty (20) years or and by the imposition of a fine of
not more than Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) or by both
said fine and imprisonment . Persons convicted under this section
shall not be eligible for a deferred sentence. Except for pers ons
sentenced to life or life without parole, any person sen tenced to
imprisonment for two (2) years or more for a violation of this ENR. H. B. NO. 3642 Page 2
subsection shall be required to serve a term of post -imprisonment
supervision pursuant to subparagraph f of paragraph 1 of subsection
A of Section 991a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Sta tutes under
conditions determined by the De partment of Corrections. The jury
shall be advised that the mandatory post -imprisonment supervision
shall be in addition to the actual imprisonment.
B. The consent of the minor, or of the mother, father, legal
guardian, or custodian of the minor to the a ctivity prohibited by
this section shall not constitute a defense.
SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1024.1, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1024.1 A. As used in Sectio ns 1021, 1021.1 through
1021.4, Sections 1022 through 1024, 1023, and Sections 1040.8
through 1040.24 of this title, "child pornography" means and
includes any:
1. Any visual depiction or individual image stored or contained
in any format on any medium in cluding, but not limited to, film,
motion picture, videota pe, photograph, negative, undeveloped film,
slide, photographic product, reprodu ction of a photographic product,
play or performance where in a minor under the age of eighteen (18)
years is of a child engaged in any act with a person, other than his
or her spouse, of sexual intercourse which is normal or perverted,
in any act of anal sodomy, in any act of sexual activity with an
animal, in any act of sadomasochistic abuse including, but not
limited to, flagellation or torture, or the condition of being
fettered, bound or otherwise physically restrained in the context of
sexual conduct, in any act of fellatio or cunnilingus, in any act of
excretion in the context of sexual conduct, in any lewd exhibitio n
of the uncovered genitals in the context of masturbation or other
sexual conduct, or where the lewd exhibition of the uncovered
genitals, buttocks or, if such minor is a female, the breast, has
the purpose of sexual stimulation of the viewer, or wherein a person
under the age of eighteen (18) years observes suc h acts or
exhibitions. Each visual depiction or individual image shall
constitute a separate item and multiple copies of the same identic al
material shall each be counted as a separate item of sexually
explicit conduct;
2. Any visual depiction of a child that has been adapted,
altered, or modified so that the child depicted appears to be
engaged in any act of sexu ally explicit conduct; or ENR. H. B. NO. 3642 Page 3
3. Any visual depiction that appears to be a child, regardl ess
of whether the image is a depiction of an actual c hild, a computer-
generated image, or an image alter ed to appear to be a child,
engaged in any act of sexually explicit conduct, and such visual
depiction is obscene.
B. Each visual depiction or individual image of child
pornography shall constitute a s eparate item and act.
C. As used in Sections 1021 through 1024.4 and Sections 1040.8
through 1040.24 of this title:
1. "Obscene material" "Child" means a person under eighteen
(18) years of age;
2. "Obscene" means and includes any representation,
performance, or depiction or description of sexual conduct , whether
in any form or on any medium including still photographs,
undeveloped photograp hs, motion pictures, undeveloped film,
videotape, optical, magnetic or solid-state storage, CD or DVD, or a
purely photographic product or a reproduction of such product in any
book, pamphlet, magazine, or other publication or electronic or
photo-optical format, if said items contain the following elements
material when taken as a whole:
a. depictions or descriptio ns of sexual conduct which are
patently offensive appeals to the prurient interest in
sex as found determined by the average person applying
the contemporary community standards of their
community,
b. taken as a whole, have as the dominant theme an appeal
to prurient interest in sex as found by the average
person applying contemporary community standards
depicts, represents, or displays sexually ex plicit
conduct in a patently offensive way, and
c. a reasonable person would find the material or
performance taken as a whole lacks serious literary,
artistic, educational, political, or scientific
purposes or value.
The standard for obscenity applied in this section shall not apply
to child pornography ; ENR. H. B. NO. 3642 Page 4
2. 3. "Performance" means and includes any display, live or,
recorded, or transmitted, in any form or medium;
3. 4. "Sexual conduct" "Sexually explicit conduct" means and
includes any of the following whether actual or simulated:
a. acts of sexual intercourse including any intercourse
which is normal or perverted, actual or simulated ,
b. acts of deviate sexual conduct, including oral and
anal sodomy,
c. acts of masturbation,
d. acts of sexual activity with an animal,
e. acts of sadomasochistic abuse sadomasochism including
but not limited to:
(1) flagellation or torture by or upon any person who
is nude or clad in undergarments or in a costume
which is of a revealing n ature, or
(2) the condition of being fettered, bound, or
otherwise physically restrained on the part of
one who is nude or so clothed,
e.
f. acts of excretion in a sexual context, or
f. acts of
g. exhibiting human genitals genitalia, breast, or pubic
areas area for the purpose of th e sexual stimulation
of the viewer; and
4. 5. "Explicit child pornography" means material which a law
enforcement officer can immediately identify upon first viewing
without hesitation as child pornography .
The types of sexual con duct described in paragraph 3 of this
subsection are intended to include situations when, if appropriate
to the type of conduct, the conduct is performed alone or between ENR. H. B. NO. 3642 Page 5
members of the same or o pposite sex or between humans and animals in
an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gra tification; and
6. "Visual depiction" means any depiction, picture, movie,
performance, or image displayed, stored, shared, o r transmitted in
any format and on any me dium including data that is capable of being
converted into a depiction, picture, movie, performance, or image.
SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1040.12a, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1040.12a A. Any person who, wi th knowledge of its
contents, possesses one hundred ( 100) or more separate materials
depicting visual depictions of child pornography shall be, upon
conviction, be guilty of aggravated possession of child pornography.
The violator shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the
Department of Corrections for a term not e xceeding life imprisonment
and by a fine in an amou nt of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars
($10,000.00). The violator, upon conviction, shall be required to
register as a sex offender under the Sex Off enders Registration Act.
B. For purposes of this sec tion:
1. Multiple copies of the same identical mat erial shall each be
counted as a separate item;
2. The term "material" means the same definition provided by
Section 1040.75 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes and, in
addition, includes all digital and computerized images and
depictions; and
3. 2. The term terms "child pornography" means and "visual
depictions" mean the same definition definitions provided by Section
1040.80 1024.1 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes and, in
addition, includes sexual conduct, sexual excitement,
sadomasochistic abuse, and performance of material harmful to minors
where a minor is present or depicted as such terms are define d in
Section 1040.75 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes this title.
SECTION 4. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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Passed the House of Representatives the 7th day of March, 2024.
Presiding Officer of the House
of Representatives
Passed the Senate the 17th day of April 2024.
Presiding Officer of the Senate
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
Received by the Office of the Governor this ____________________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________
Approved by the Governor of the State of Oklahoma this ___ ______
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
_________________________________
Governor of the State of Oklahoma
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
Received by the Office of the Secretary of State this __________
day of ___________________, 20_______, at _______ o'clock _______ M.
By: _________________________________