Bill Text: NJ A1939 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates offense for electronically sending unsolicited nude images.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-04 - Reported out of Asm. Comm. with Amendments, and Referred to Assembly Public Safety and Preparedness Committee [A1939 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A1939-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

ASSEMBLY, No. 1939

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  AURA K. DUNN

District 25 (Morris and Passaic)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblyman Stanley

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Creates offense for electronically sending unsolicited nude image.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Assembly Judiciary Committee on March 4, 2024, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning lewd acts and amending N.J.S.2C:14-4.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.  N.J.S.2C:14-4 is amended to read as follows:

     2C:14-4.     a.         A person commits a disorderly persons offense if ¹the person¹:

     (1)  [he] ¹[the person]¹ does any flagrantly lewd and offensive act which [he] the person knows or reasonably expects is likely to be observed by other nonconsenting persons who would be affronted or alarmed; or

     (2)   ¹[the person]¹ knowingly transmits by electronic means visual material that depicts a person engaging in sexual conduct or with the person's intimate parts exposed and the recipient did not request or expressly consent to receiving the material. 

     b.    A person commits a crime of the fourth degree if ¹the person¹:

     (1)  ¹[He]¹ exposes ¹[his] the person's¹ intimate parts, via an unsolicited electronic lewd image or in person, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the ¹[actor] person¹ or of any other person under circumstances where the ¹[actor] person¹ knows or reasonably expects ¹[he] the person¹ is likely to be observed by a child who is less than 13 years of age where the ¹[actor] person¹ is at least four years older than the child. 

     (2)  ¹[He]¹ exposes ¹[his] the person's¹ intimate parts, via an unsolicited electronic lewd image or in person, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the ¹[actor] person¹ or of any other person under circumstances where the ¹[actor] person¹ knows or reasonably expects ¹[he] the person¹ is likely to be observed by a person who because of mental disease or defect is unable to understand the sexual nature of the ¹[actor's] person's¹ conduct. 

     c.     As used in this section:

     "electronic means" includes, but is not limited to, an electronic communication device, an interactive wireless communications device, or a computer.

     "lewd acts" shall include the exposing of the genitals, via electronic means or in person, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of the ¹[actor] person¹ or of any other person.

(cf: P.L.1992, c.8, s.1)

 

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.