Multiple Amendments Enacted During the 2024 and 2025 Legislative Sessions

1. A. Any person who, with knowledge of its contents, possesses one hundred (100) or more separate materials depicting child sexual abuse material shall be, upon conviction, guilty of aggravated possession of child sexual abuse material. The violator shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not exceeding life imprisonment and by a fine in an amount not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). The violator, upon conviction, shall be required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offenders Registration Act.

2. B. For purposes of this section:

   1. 1. Multiple copies of the same identical material shall each be counted as a separate item;
   2. 2. The term "material" means the same definition provided by Section 1040.75 of this title and, in addition, includes all digital and computerized images and depictions; and

   3. 3. The term "child sexual abuse material" means the same definition provided by Section 1040.80 of this title and, in addition, includes sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sadomasochistic abuse, and performance of material harmful to minors where a minor is present or depicted as such terms are defined in Section 1040.75 of this title.

      Version 2 (Amended by Laws 2024, HB 3642, c. 103, § 3, eff. November 1, 2024; Amended by Laws 2025, SB 53, c. 29, § 3, eff. November 1, 2025)

   4. A. Any person who, with knowledge of its contents, possesses one hundred (100) or more separate visual depictions of child sexual abuse material shall, upon conviction, be guilty of aggravated possession of child sexual abuse material. The violator shall be punished by imprisonment in the custody of the Department of Corrections for a term not exceeding life imprisonment and by a fine not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00). The violator, upon conviction, shall be required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offenders Registration Act.

   5. B. For purposes of this section:

      1. 1. Multiple copies of the same identical material shall each be counted as a separate item; and
      2. 2. The terms “child sexual abuse material” and “visual depictions” mean the same definitions provided by Section 1024.1 of this title.

Version 1 (Amended by Laws 2024, HB 3936, c. 59, § 20, eff. November 1, 2024)

Laws 2008, SB 1992, c. 438, § 2, emerg. eff. July 1, 2008; Amended by Laws 2009, SB 1020, c. 457, § 4, emerg. eff. July 1, 2009 (superseded document available); Amended by Laws 2024, HB 3936, c. 59, § 20, eff. November 1, 2024; Amended by Laws 2024, HB 3642, c. 103, § 3, eff. November 1, 2024 (superseded document available); Amendment by Laws 2024, HB 3642, c. 103, § 3, amended by Laws 2025, SB 53, c. 29, § 3, eff. November 1, 2025 (superseded document available).