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Judiciary committee advances bill tightening penalties for nonconsensual image disclosure after debate on penalty level
Summary
The Judiciary committee voted to advance H626 (strike‑all, draft 3.2), which targets nonconsensual disclosure of intimate images and includes an extortion enhancement. Lawmakers debated whether the offense should be a three‑year misdemeanor or a three‑year felony and agreed to move the bill forward while deferring broader penalty reform.
Speaker 1, a Judiciary committee member, moved to approve a strike‑all amendment to H626 (draft 3.2), a bill aimed at criminalizing the nonconsensual disclosure of visual images and adding an extortion enhancement. The committee discussed whether a subsection should explicitly say 'without consent' and whether the offense should carry a misdemeanor or felony penalty.
The committee heard arguments for leaving the 'without consent' language in place. Speaker 2 noted that the existing statute (referred to in discussion as '2606') had been upheld…
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