PRINTER'S NO. 1907
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
1310
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, HUGHES, HAYWOOD, BREWSTER, FONTANA,
FARNESE, BLAKE, COSTA, RAFFERTY, DINNIMAN, BROOKS, YUDICHAK,
WILLIAMS AND BOSCOLA, JUNE 10, 2016
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JUNE 10, 2016
AN ACT
Amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 42 (Judiciary and
Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in other offenses, providing for the offense of
prohibited distribution of a private image; and, in rights of
action, further providing for damages in actions for unlawful
dissemination of intimate image.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 7507.2. Prohibited distribution of a private image.
(a) Offense defined.--No person, without permission or
authority, shall knowingly or recklessly disseminate or
distribute from the possession or control of another person,
including from a computer, computer system, computer network,
electronic device or electronic storage system, a visual
depiction of the other person in a state of full or partial
nudity or engaged in sexual conduct.
(b) Grading.--The following shall apply:
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