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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
SENATE BILL 1265 By: McCortney
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to sexual extortion; amending 21 O.S.
2021, Section 1488, which relates to blackmail;
creating the offense of sexual extortion;
establishing elements of offense; creating felony
offense; establishing punishment ; updating statutory
reference; and providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE ST ATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1488, is
amended to read as follows:
Section 1488. A. Blackmail is verbally or by written or
printed communication and with intent to extort or gain any thing of
value from another or to compel another to do an act a gainst his or
her will:
1. Accusing or threatening to accuse any perso n of a crime or
conduct which would tend to degrade and disgrace the person accused;
2. Exposing or threatening to expose any fact, rep ort or
information concerning any person which wo uld in any way subject
such person to the ridicule or contempt of socie ty; or
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3. Threatening to report a person as being illegally present in
the United States, a nd is coupled with the threat that such
accusation or exposure will be communicated to a thir d person or
persons unless the person threatened or some other person p ays or
delivers to the accuser or some other person some thing of value or
does some act against his or her will.
B. Blackmail is a felony punishable by imprisonment in the
State Penitentiary for custody of the Department of Corrections not
to exceed five (5) yea rs or fine not to exceed Ten Thousan d Dollars
($10,000.00) or by both such imprisonm ent and fine.
C. Sexual extortion is verbally or by written or printed
communication and wit h intent to cause a person to engage in any
sort of sexual activity or to injure the body or reputation of the
person:
1. Threatening to disseminate, sell, or p ublish a video or
still image created by any means; or
2. Refusing to delete, remove, or resci nd a previously
disseminated, sold, or published video or still image created by any
means,
that depicts the person threatened or household member of the person
threatened as defined in Section 60.1 of Title 22 of the Oklahoma
Statutes as nude or in a state of undress so as to expose the
genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breast .
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D. 1. Sexual extortion committed against a person under the
age of eighteen (18) shall upon conviction be a felony punishable by
imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for not
less than one (1) year nor more than twenty (20) years , by a fine
not to exceed One Hundred T housand Dollars ($100,000.00), or by both
such imprisonment and fine.
2. Sexual extortion committed against a person eighteen (18)
years of age or older shall upon convict ion be a felony punishable
by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections not
to exceed five (5) years, by a fine not to exceed Ten Thousand
Dollars ($10,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2024.
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