Delaware Senate Bill 158 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)
Status: Introduced on June 16 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-06-02 - Stricken
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

Recognizing that the creation of visual images of child sexual exploitation and child pornography necessarily inflicts serious injury to the child victim, this bill creates a right in the victim to sue those who are responsible for producing, or knowingly possessing, pornographic visual images of the victim. If a defendant has produced or possessed such images, the victim is deemed to have suffered damages and is entitled to an award of damages of not less than $150,000. The bill also provides for a statute of limitations specific to this cause of action, and permits the court to award attorney’s fees and costs to a successful plaintiff.

An Act Relating To A Civil Remedy For Victims Of Child Sexual Exploitation Or Child Pornography.

Rep. William Carson [D]	Rep. Richard Cathcart [R]	Sen. Bruce Ennis [D]	Sen. Bethany Hall-Long [D]
Rep. Deborah Hudson [R]	Rep. Earl Jaques [D]	Rep. John Kowalko [D]	Rep. John Mitchell [D]
Rep. William Oberle [R]	Sen. Karen Peterson [D]	Rep. Michael Ramone [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-06-02		Stricken
2010-04-27		Amendment SA 1 - Stricken
2010-03-16		Amendment SA 1 - Introduced and Placed With the Bill in Senate
2009-06-16		Assigned to Judiciary Committee in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/2bede841c6272c888025698400433a04/c15c774a0a3ad6b0852575b5005c6ed1?OpenDocument
Text	http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis145.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+158/$file/legis.html?open