Bill Text: IN SB0152 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Sharing sexually explicit material.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-05 - First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters [SB0152 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SB0152-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 20-30-6-16; IC 35-49-3-4.
Synopsis: Sharing sexually explicit material. Authorizes a school
corporation to provide education concerning the potential risks and
consequences of creating and sharing sexually suggestive or explicit
materials through cell phones, over a computer, or through other digital
media. Provides that, for a defendant charged with an offense involving
the dissemination or display to minors of material that is harmful to
minors or obscene, it is a defense that the defendant was less than four
years older than the minor who received or accessed the matter and that
the minor expressly or implicitly acquiesced in the defendant's conduct.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
January 5, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and
Civil Matters.
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(1) that the matter was disseminated or that the performance was performed for legitimate scientific or educational purposes;
(2) that the matter was disseminated or displayed to or that the performance was performed before the recipient by a bona fide school, museum, or public library that qualifies for certain property tax exemptions under IC 6-1.1-10, or by an employee of such a school, museum, or public library acting within the scope
of his the defendant's employment;
(3) that he the defendant had reasonable cause to believe that the
minor involved was eighteen (18) years old or older and that the
minor exhibited to the defendant a draft card, driver's license,
birth certificate, or other official or apparently official document
purporting to establish that the minor was eighteen (18) years old
or older; or
(4) that he the defendant was a salesclerk, motion picture
projectionist, usher, or ticket taker, acting within the scope of his
the defendant's employment and that he the defendant had no
financial interest in the place where he the defendant was so
employed; or
(5) that:
(A) the defendant was less than four (4) years older than
the minor who received or accessed the matter harmful to
minors; and
(B) the minor expressly or implicitly acquiesced in the
defendant's conduct.
