HB 259 — An Act amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in minors, further providing for the offense of sexual abuse of children.

PRINTER'S NO.   205

                      THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                          HOUSE BILL
                          No. 259
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY SCIALABBA, MARCELL, KAUFFMAN, KUZMA AND STAATS,
        JANUARY 22, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, JANUARY 22, 2025


                                      AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in minors, further providing for the
 3      offense of sexual abuse of children.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.     The definition of "child sexual abuse material"
 7   in section 6312(g) of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 8   Statutes, amended October 29, 2024 (P.L.1095, No.125), is
 9   amended to read:
10   § 6312.    Sexual abuse of children.
11      * * *
12      (g)    Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
13   words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
14   subsection:
15      * * *
16      "Child sexual abuse material."      Any of the following:
17             (1)   A book, magazine, pamphlet, slide, photograph, film,
18      videotape, computer depiction or other material depicting a
 1    child under 18 years of age engaging in a prohibited sexual
 2    act or in the simulation of a prohibited sexual act.
 3        (2)   As follows:
 4              (i)    the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic
 5        area of an unclothed, partially clothed or clothed child
 6        under 18 years of age in a patently offensive or sexually
 7        suggestive manner;
 8              (ii)    material which the average person applying
 9        contemporary community standards would find that the
10        subject matter taken as a whole appeals to the prurient
11        interest in sex; and
12              (iii)    material which the subject matter, taken as a
13        whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political,
14        educational or scientific value.
15    * * *
16    Section 2.      This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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