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H.R. 6719 · House bill · 119th Congress
This bill expands the federal framework for combating the online exploitation of children. Among its provisions, the bill establishes new criminal offenses, expands reporting requirements, and facilitates the prosecution and sentencing of offenders.
TITLE I—SAFE ACT
Sentencing Accountability For Exploitation Act or the SAFE Act
This title directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend its guidelines and policy statements applicable to federal criminal offenses involving the production, receipt, transport, shipment, or distribution of child sexual abuse material to (1) account for the actual and potential harm from the offense and changes since the last amendments with respect to the typical offense behavior and modern technologies, and (2) better reflect the spectrum of offender culpability.
TITLE II—ENDING COERCION OF CHILDREN AND HARM ONLINE
Ending Coercion of Children and Harm Online Act or the ECCHO Act
This title establishes a federal framework to combat the online coercion of minors to commit harm. The title creates new criminal offenses, expands reporting of instances involving the online coercion of minors, facilitates the prosecution of offenders, and expands protections for minors who testify in court. TITLE III—STOP SEXTORTION
Stop Sextortion Act
This title criminalizes threats to distribute child sexual abuse material to intimidate, coerce, extort, or cause substantial emotional distress. This practice is commonly referred to as sextortion. The title also increases criminal penalties for related offenses that involve the use of child sexual abuse material to intimidate, coerce, extort, or cause substantial emotional distress.
This Act may be cited as the “Combating Online Predators Act” or the “COP Act”.
(a) Material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.— Section 2252A of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (6), by striking “illegal; or” and inserting “illegal;”;
(B) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at the end and inserting “; or”; and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (7) the following:
“(8) knowingly distributes, offers, sends, or provides, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a threat to distribute— with the intent that the minor, or the person the defendant believes is a minor, create or transmit a visual depiction of any minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,
(A) a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, or
(B) a visual depiction of a person the defendant believes is a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,”; and
(2) in subsection (b), by striking “or (6)” and inserting “(6), or (8)”.
(b) Material constituting or containing child pornography.— Section 2252 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (3)(B)(ii), by striking “or” at the end;
(B) in paragraph (4)(B)(ii), by inserting “or” after the semicolon; and
(C) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following:
“(5) knowingly distributes, offers, sends, or provides, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a threat to distribute— with the intent that the minor, or the person the defendant believes is a minor, create or transmit a visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct,
(A) a visual depiction of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, or
(B) a visual depiction of a person the defendant believes is a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct,”;
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting “or (5)” after “paragraph (4)”; and
(3) in subsection (c), in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting “or (5)” after “paragraph (4)”.