Assembly Bill A3997

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Excludes certain actions or omissions from qualifying as unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image when such actions are in connection with the reporting of or investigation into unlawful conduct

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A3997 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3174
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §245.15, Pen L

2025-A3997 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A3997 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3997
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section  1.    This  act shall be known and may be cited as the "child
 sexual abuse material prevention act".
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section  245.15  of  the  penal
 law,  as added by chapter 109 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (a) ACTIONS OR OMISSIONS IN  CONNECTION  WITH  the  reporting  of,  OR
 INVESTIGATIONS  INTO, POTENTIALLY unlawful conduct IN COLLABORATION WITH
 LOCAL, STATE, OR FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT  OR  THE  NATIONAL  CENTER  FOR
 MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN; INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, VOLUNTARY
 REPORTING,  COOPERATION, OR ACTIONS DESIGNED TO PREVENT, IDENTIFY, CLAS-
 SIFY, MONITOR, MITIGATE, OR REPORT PROHIBITED IMAGES  OR  CONDUCT  UNDER
 THIS SECTION;
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04312-01-5

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