S 3398 · in committee · significant
Stop Sextortion Act
- criminal justice
What this bill does
- Creates federal crimes for threatening to share child sexual abuse material to intimidate, coerce, extort, or harm someone emotionally.
- Increases criminal penalties for existing offenses involving child sexual abuse material used for extortion or coercion.
- Applies criminal penalties to attempts and conspiracies to commit these offenses.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
- 01
How would law enforcement distinguish between sextortion threats and other forms of online harassment or blackmail to ensure appropriate prosecution?
- 02
What evidence supports the need for new federal crimes rather than prosecuting these acts under existing extortion and child exploitation statutes?
- 03
How might increased penalties for sextortion affect victims' willingness to report these crimes if they fear exposure of the material?
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Sponsor · R-IA
Chuck Grassley
Citizen cosponsors
0
In Congress
15/ 100
Senators cosponsoring
Introduced 2025-12-09
Joining the bill
Richard J. Durbin
D-IL · original
Amy Klobuchar
D-MN · original
John Cornyn
R-TX · original
Marsha Blackburn
R-TN · original
Lindsey Graham
R-SC · original
Jeanne Shaheen
D-NH
Ashley Moody
R-FL
John Kennedy
R-LA
Katie Boyd Britt
R-AL
Ted Cruz
R-TX
Angus S. King Jr.
I-ME
Catherine Cortez Masto
D-NV
+ 3 more
Legislative timeline
2025-12-09 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
2025-12-09 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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