PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

S.B. 133

Sincerely,

Parris N. Glendening

Governor

Senate Bill No. 133

AN ACT concerning

Child Pornography—Computers Crimes and Law Enforcement

FOR the purpose of expanding certain provisions of law relating to child pornography to
make them applicable to minors in a certain states of being and minors who are
engaged as a subject in sadomasochistic abuse; prohibiting a person from using a
computer to compile, enter, print, publish, reproduce, buy, sell, exchange, transmit,
disseminate, or advertise certain data relating to minors for the purpose of
facilitating, encouraging, offering, or soliciting certain sexual conduct or
sadomasochistic abuse of or with any minor by means of a computer; prohibiting
certain computer generated depictions of minors in a certain state of being or
certain conduct of or with a minor; authorizing the Department of State Police to
exercise certain police powers; and generally relating to computers and child
pornography criminal law and law enforcement.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 419A

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1992 Replacement Volume and 1995 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 88B - Department of State Police
Section 4(c)

Annotated Code of Maryland
(1995 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

419A.

(a)     In this section "minor" means an individual under 18 years of age.

(b)     Every person who solicits, causes, induces, or knowingly permits a minor to
engage as a subject in the production of any obscene matter or any visual representation
or performance that depicts a minor IN A STATE OF SEXUAL EXCITEMENT engaged as a
subject in sexual conduct OR SADOMASOCfflSTIC ABUSE as defined in [§ 416A(d)] §
416A of this article[,] is subject to the penalty provided in subsection [(e)] (F) of this
section.

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