Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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05.29.12 The Senate Judiciary committee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. The amendment creates a first offense fine of $150, a second offense fine of $500 and a third offense misdemeanor of $1000.
05.24.12 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. The amendment makes it illegal for a person who is less than eighteen years of age to use a telecommunications device to knowingly transmit or distribute to another person a photograph or text message with a photograph attachment depicting a person who is less than eighteen years of age in a state of sexual activity or a state of sexually explicit nudity.
05.02.12 A Senate Judiciary subcommittee carried this bill over.
03.06.12 The House Judiciary committee gave this bill a favorable report as amended by the subcommittee.
02.29.12 The House Judiciary Criminal Laws subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. The amendment strikes all of the language in the current bill. The new language makes it illegal for a child under seventeen years old to use a telecommunications device to knowingly transmit or distribute a picture or text message depicting another person under eighteen years old in a state of sexual activity or nudity.
01.24.12 The House Judiciary committee recommitted this bill to the subcommittee.
05.18.11 The House Judiciary Criminal Laws subcommittee gave this bill a favorable report with an amendment. As soon as the amendment is available, it will be posted.
04.13.11 The House Judiciary Criminal Laws subcommittee met but did not take action on this bill.
03.02.11 The House Judiciary Criminal Laws subcommittee met but did not take action on this bill.
02.09.11 The House Judiciary Criminal Laws subcommittee adjourned debate on this bill.
Summary of the bill as introduced: Creates the offense of sexting and provides for the use of the uniform traffic ticket for the offense and for jurisdiction over the offense in the municipal or magistrates court. |
