HR 6715
Child Predators Accountability Act
Summary
Child Predators Accountability Act of 2025 This bill broadens the scope of prohibited conduct under two federal criminal statutes related to the production of child pornography. Under current law, both statutes prohibit employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a visual depiction or transmitting a live visual depiction of the conduct. This bill expands prohibited conduct to include employing, using, persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing a minor to be depicted engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The bill also defines the term engage in to include a minor's presence in a such a depiction regardless of whether or not the minor is participating in the sexually explicit conduct.
Bill status
- Status
- Passed House
- Sponsor
- Rep. Mark Harris [R-NC-8]
- Cosponsors
- 1
- Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Introduced
- 2025-12-15
- Latest action
- 2026-01-13: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2026-01-13: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
- 2026-01-12: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2026-01-12: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H630)
- 2026-01-12: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H630)
- 2026-01-12: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6715.