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OH HB473
Bill
Status
5/26/2010
Primary Sponsor
Kevin Bacon
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AI Summary
Sub. H.B. 473 Summary
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Prohibits minors from using telecommunications devices to knowingly send, post, exchange, or share nude photographs, videos, or material depicting themselves or other minors, with exceptions for criminal investigations, civil actions, or other proper purposes.
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Restricts the adult crime of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" to persons 18 years of age or older, with penalties ranging from second-degree felony for creating/producing such material to fifth-degree felony for possession.
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Creates new juvenile delinquency offenses for minors who photograph themselves or other minors in states of nudity or create/transfer such material by non-telecommunications means, with varying penalties based on offense type and whether it involves the minor's own image or another minor's image.
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Defines "state of nudity" as nudity involving lewd exhibition or graphic focus on genitals.
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Amends sections 2151.022 and 2152.02 to reference the new offense divisions in Section 2907.324 concerning juveniles and the new sexting and nudity-oriented material prohibitions.
Legislative Description
To prohibit a minor, by use of a telecommunications device, from knowingly sharing, exchanging, sending, or posting a photograph, video, or other material that shows a minor in a state of nudity and to define a state of nudity for purposes of this prohibition, to limit the offense of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" to acts committed by persons 18 years of age or older, and to prohibit a minor from committing by means other than a telecommunications device delinquent acts that would be the offense of "illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented material or performance" if committed by an adult.
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Last Action
To Judiciary Criminal Justice
5/28/2010