Honorable Joe Moody, Chair, House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB1896 by Guillen (Relating to civil and criminal liability for the unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.), As Introduced
The bill would expand the conduct constituting the state jail felony offense of unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material to include visual material depicting a person who is recognizable as an actual person and whose image was used in creating, adapting, or modifying the visual material, including computer-generated visual material.
Expanding the conduct constituting an existing offense may result in additional demands upon state and local correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals placed under supervision in the community or sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2022, there were 275 individuals arrested, 106 individuals placed on adult community supervision, 47 individuals placed on juvenile probation supervision, 13 individuals admitted to an adult state correctional institution, and no individuals admitted to a juvenile state correctional institution for unlawful disclosure or promotion of intimate visual material.
It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.