Senate Bill No. 152 Summary

• Authorizes school corporations to offer classes, instruction, or programs about the risks and consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit materials through cell phones, social media, computer networks, and other digital media.

• Adds a new affirmative defense for defendants charged with disseminating or displaying material harmful to minors or obscene material if the defendant was less than four years older than the minor and the minor expressly or implicitly consented to the conduct.

• Makes technical corrections to existing law by replacing gender-specific pronouns with "the defendant" in defense provisions related to material dissemination to minors.

• Effective July 1, 2010.