Tina Tartaglione voted Yea (Passage With Amendment) on this Legislation.
Title: Establishes and Defines the Crime of Sexual Extortion
Signed by Governor Tom Wolf
Title: Establishes and Defines the Crime of Sexual Extortion
Title: Establishes and Defines the Crime of Sexual Extortion
Vote to amend and pass a bill that establishes and defines the crime of sexual extortion.
Specifies that a person commits the offense of sexual extortion when they knowingly or intentionally coerces or causes a complainant, through any means set forth, to (Sec. 1):
Engage in sexual conduct, the simulation of sexual conduct, or a state of nudity; or
Make, produce, disseminate, transmit, or distribute any image, video, recording, or other material depicting the complainant in a state of nudity or engaging in sexual conduct or in the simulation of sexual conduct.
Specifies that a person subjects a complainant to sexual extortion through any of the following means (Sec. 1):
Harming or threatening to harm the complainant or the property of the complainant, the reputation of the complainant, or any other thing of value;
Making, producing, disseminating, transmitting, or distributing any image, video, recording, or other material depicting the complainant in a state of nudity or engaged in sexual conduct;
Exposing any face or piece of information that, if revealed, would tend to subject the complainant to criminal proceedings, a civil action, hatred, contempt, embarrassment, or ridicule;
Holding out, withholding, or threatening to withhold service, employment, position, or another thing of value; and
Threatening to cause or causing a loss, disadvantage, or injury, including a loss, disadvantage, or injury toa family or household member.
Specifies that a person commits the offense of sexual extortion if they knowingly or intentionally (Sec. 1):
Solicits or demands the payment of money, property, service, or any other thing of value from the complainant or a family or household member of the complainant in exchange for removing from public view or preventing the disclosure of any image, video, recording, or material;
Disseminates, transmits, or distributes an image, video, recording, or other material depicting the complainant in a state of nudity or engaging in sexual conduct, including a commercial social networking site, and solicits or demands the payment of money, property, or services from the complainant or a member of their household or family in exchange for removing or preventing this disclosure of the image, video, or other material.
Specifies that a violation of this bill will constitute a misdemeanor of the first degree (Sec. 1).
Specifies that a violation of this bill will constitute a felony of the third degree if the actor is at least 18 years of age and (Sec. 1):
The complainant is under 18 years of age;
The complainant has an intellectual disability; or
The actor holds a position of trust or supervisory or disciplinary power over the complainant by virtue of the actor’s legal, professional, or occupational status.
Specifies that a violation of this bill will constitute a felony of the third degree if (Sec. 1):
The violation is part of a course of conduct of sexual extortion by the actor; or
The actor was previously convicted or adjudicated delinquent of a violation of this bill or of a similar offense in another jurisdiction.
Title: Establishes and Defines the Crime of Sexual Extortion
Title: Establishes and Defines the Crime of Sexual Extortion