S3718-118

Introduced

To prevent the distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent.

118th Congress Introduced Jan 31, 2024

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, To prevent the distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors. The main policy domain is Criminal Justice, Technology, Immigration.

Who Benefits and How

law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section S1: 1. Short title; table of contents This Act may be cited as the Preventing Rampant Online Technological Exploitation and Criminal Trafficking Act of 2024 or the...
  • Section id5037f14d35cd4869a1a0014173fbb3bd: 2. Findings Congress finds the following: In the United States, reports of child sexual abuse material (referred to in this section as CSAM) have grown...
  • Section id0af1915ba10e49928c20ae958313583e: 3. Definitions In this Act: The term coerced consent means purported consent obtained from a person— through fraud, duress, misrepresentation, undue influence,...
  • Section idec8cfe7fb2fe44179736394d079e2c5f: 4. Severability clause If any provision of this Act or an amendment made by this Act, or the application of such a provision or amendment to any person or...
  • Section id03ca6f221eb44f78a3698b3ce21033d0: 101. Verification obligations of covered platform operators A covered platform operator may not upload or allow a user to upload a pornographic image to the...

Evidence Chain:

This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers with clause-level evidence links.

At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, To prevent the distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.

Key Policy Areas

Criminal Justice, Technology, Immigration

Primary Purpose

This bill, To prevent the distribution of intimate visual depictions without consent., changes federal law or congressional policy affecting law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors.

Policy Domains

Criminal Justice Technology Immigration

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
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Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors
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law enforcement, courts, victims, and regulated public-safety actors: ,

Legislative Progress

Introduced
Introduced Committee Passed
Jan 31, 2024

Mr. Lee introduced the following bill; which was read twice …

Impact analysis is available but no clear stakeholder effects identified. View clause-level analysis →

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Criminal Justice Technology Immigration
Actor Mappings
"federal_implementing_agencies"
→ Federal agencies assigned duties by the bill

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

3 terms
"intimate visual depiction" §id0af1915ba10e49928c20ae958313583e

any visual depiction— of an individual who is reasonably identifiable from the visual depiction itself or information displayed in connection with the visual depiction, including through— facial recognition

"intimate visual depiction" §id2b24866357f74f7b80d9729d57bcf99c

any visual depiction— of an individual who is reasonably identifiable from the visual depiction itself or information displayed in connection with the visual depiction, including through— facial recognition

"intimate visual depiction" §idcae5b9fea6e84f098d0e95067da5ba4a

any visual depiction— of an individual who is reasonably identifiable from the visual depiction itself or information displayed in connection with the visual depiction, including through— facial recognition

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