Excludes certain actions or omissions from qualifying as unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image when such actions or omissions are in connection with the reporting of or investigation into potentially unlawful conduct.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3174
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to excluding certain actions
or omissions from qualifying as unlawful dissemination or publication
of an intimate image when such actions or omissions are in connection
with the reporting of or investigation into potentially unlawful
conduct
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "child
2 sexual abuse material prevention act".
3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 245.15 of the penal
4 law, as added by chapter 109 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 (a) actions or omissions in connection with the reporting of, or
7 investigations into, potentially unlawful conduct in collaboration with
8 local, state, or federal law enforcement or the National Center for
9 Missing and Exploited Children; including, but not limited to, voluntary
10 reporting, cooperation, or actions designed to prevent, identify, clas-
11 sify, monitor, mitigate, or report prohibited images or conduct under
12 this section;
13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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