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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1203 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of the prohibition |
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| 6 | 6 | | against video voyeurism. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY11, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Ms. M |
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| 10 | 10 | | ACE(for herself and Mrs. LUNA) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 11 | 11 | | was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope |
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| 14 | 14 | | of the prohibition against video voyeurism. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Victimizers and 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Offenders from Yielding Explicit Unconsented Recordings 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | Surreptitiously Act of 2025’’ or as the ‘‘Stop VOYEURS 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Act of 2025’’. 7 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SEC. 2. EXPANDED PROHIBITION AGAINST VIDEO 1 |
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| 26 | 26 | | VOYEURISM. 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | Section 1801 of title 18, United States Code, is 3 |
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| 28 | 28 | | amended— 4 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) in subsection (a)— 5 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) by striking ‘‘, in the special maritime 6 |
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| 31 | 31 | | and territorial jurisdiction of the United 7 |
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| 32 | 32 | | States,’’ and inserting ‘‘, in a circumstance de-8 |
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| 33 | 33 | | scribed in subsection (d),’’; and 9 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (B) by striking ‘‘imprisoned not more than 10 |
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| 35 | 35 | | one year’’ and inserting ‘‘imprisoned not more 11 |
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| 36 | 36 | | than 5 years’’; and 12 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (2) by adding at the end the following: 13 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘(d) C |
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| 39 | 39 | | IRCUMSTANCEDESCRIBED.—For the purposes 14 |
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| 40 | 40 | | of subsection (a), the circumstances described in this sub-15 |
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| 41 | 41 | | section are that— 16 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ‘‘(1) the offender or victim traveled in inter-17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | state or foreign commerce, or traveled using a 18 |
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| 44 | 44 | | means, channel, facility, or instrumentality of inter-19 |
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| 45 | 45 | | state or foreign commerce, in furtherance of or in 20 |
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| 46 | 46 | | connection with the conduct described in subsection 21 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (a); 22 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ‘‘(2) the offender used a means, channel, facil-23 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ity, or instrumentality of interstate or foreign com-24 |
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| 50 | 50 | | merce in furtherance of or in connection with the 25 |
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| 51 | 51 | | conduct described in subsection (a); 26 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(3) any payment of any kind was made, di-1 |
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| 56 | 56 | | rectly or indirectly, in furtherance of or in connec-2 |
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| 57 | 57 | | tion with the conduct described in subsection (a) 3 |
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| 58 | 58 | | using any means, channel, facility, or instrumen-4 |
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| 59 | 59 | | tality of interstate or foreign commerce or in or af-5 |
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| 60 | 60 | | fecting interstate or foreign commerce; 6 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(4) the offender transmitted in interstate or 7 |
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| 62 | 62 | | foreign commerce any communication relating to or 8 |
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| 63 | 63 | | in furtherance of the conduct described in subsection 9 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (a) using any means, channel, facility, or instrumen-10 |
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| 65 | 65 | | tality of interstate or foreign commerce or in or af-11 |
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| 66 | 66 | | fecting interstate or foreign commerce by any means 12 |
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| 67 | 67 | | or in manner, including by computer, mail, wire, or 13 |
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| 68 | 68 | | electromagnetic transmission; 14 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(5) any equipment, item, or other object that 15 |
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| 70 | 70 | | has traveled in interstate or foreign commerce was 16 |
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| 71 | 71 | | used to perform the conduct described in subsection 17 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (a); 18 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ‘‘(6) the conduct described in subsection (a) oc-19 |
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| 74 | 74 | | curred within the special maritime and territorial ju-20 |
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| 75 | 75 | | risdiction of the United States, or any territory or 21 |
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| 76 | 76 | | possession of the United States; or 22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ‘‘(7) the conduct described in subsection (a) 1 |
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| 81 | 81 | | otherwise occurred in or affected interstate or for-2 |
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| 82 | 82 | | eign commerce.’’. 3 |
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