SAFE Act
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill directs the United States Sentencing Commission to revise child sexual abuse material sentencing guidelines so they better reflect actual harm, offender culpability, modern technology, and aggravating conduct.
Who Benefits and How
Victims and public-safety interests could benefit from sentencing guidelines that more explicitly account for severe conduct, repeated abuse, group activity, concealment, and related harms.
Who Bears the Burden and How
People convicted of covered child sexual abuse material offenses could face sentencing guidelines that more fully account for aggravating factors and do not lower the base offense level.
Key Provisions
- Requires the Sentencing Commission to review and amend guidelines for several child sexual abuse material offenses.
- Directs the Commission to account for harms, modern technology, patterns of conduct, concealment, and other aggravating factors.
- Repeals certain prior congressional directives and bars lowering the applicable base offense level in the relevant guideline.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill directs the United States Sentencing Commission to revise child sexual abuse material sentencing guidelines so they better reflect actual harm, offender culpability, modern technology, and aggravating conduct.
Key Policy Areas
Criminal Justice, Child Safety
Primary Purpose
This bill directs the United States Sentencing Commission to revise child sexual abuse material sentencing guidelines so they better reflect actual harm, offender culpability, modern technology, and aggravating conduct.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Victims and public-safety interests supported by stronger sentencing treatment of exploitative child-sex-abuse-material conduct
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Defendants sentenced under the revised child sexual abuse material guidelines and the Sentencing Commission implementing the changes
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Grassley (for himself, Mr. Durbin, Mrs. Blackburn, and Mr. …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
United States Sentencing Commission responsible for revising the child sexual abuse material guidelines
People sentenced under the revised child sexual abuse material guidelines
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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