Bill > H0626

Introduced Session

This bill proposes to criminalize the act of threatening to disclose a visual image of an identifiable person who is nude or who is engaged in sexual conduct with the intent to compel a person to produce nude images or images of sexual conduct, engage in sexual conduct, or provide anything of value; to criminalize threatening a person with the intent to compel a person to produce nude images or images of sexual conduct or to engage in sexual conduct; to extend the statute of limitations for photographing, filming, or recording a person in violation of the voyeurism statute; to extend the statute of limitations for displaying or disclosing images in violation of the voyeurism statute; to eliminate the statute of limitations for civil actions against a person for knowingly disclosing, without the plaintiff’s consent, a visual image of the plaintiff while the plaintiff is nude or engaged in sexual conduct if the disclosure caused harm to the plaintiff; and to allow H.626 recovery of damages for a disorder resulting from trauma in a tort claim against a person who knowingly discloses, without the plaintiff’s consent, an identifiable visual image of the plaintiff while the plaintiff is nude or engaged in sexual conduct and the disclosure causes the plaintiff harm.

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Angela Arsenault (D)*,  Sarita Austin (D),  Edye Graning (D),  Leanne Harple (D),  Emilie Krasnow (D),  Alicia Malay (R),  Mary-Katherine Stone (D), 

Read 1st time & referred to Committee on Judiciary (on 02/06/2026)

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