North Carolina HB 1134: Housing and Foreclosure Prevention Assistance.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 1134

Short Title: Secret Peeping on Minor/Increase Punishment. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Shepard.
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Judiciary 2, if favorable, Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and
Operations of the House
May 4, 2026
*H1134-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE PUNISHMENT FOR SECRET PEEPING OFFENSES IN 2
WHICH THE VICTIM IS A MINOR. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-202, as amended by S.L. 2025-70, reads as rewritten: 5
"§ 14-202. Secretly peeping into room occupied by another person. 6
(a) Any Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who shall peep 7
secretly into any room occupied by another person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any 8
person who commits a violation of this subsection in which the victim is a minor shall be guilty 9
of a Class A1 misdemeanor. 10
(a1) Unless covered by another provision of law providing greater punishment, any person 11
who secretly or surreptitiously peeps underneath or through the clothing being worn by another 12
person, through the use of a mirror or other device, for the purpose of viewing the body of, or the 13
undergarments worn by, that other person without their consent shall be guilty of a Class 1 14
misdemeanor. Any person who commits a violation of this subsection in which the victim is a 15
minor shall be guilty of a Class A1 misdemeanor. 16
(b) The following definitions apply in this section: 17
(1) Minor. – An individual who is less than 18 years of age. 18
(2) Photographic image. – Any photograph or photographic reproduction, still or 19
moving, or any videotape, motion picture, or live television transmission, or 20
any digital image of any individual. 21
(2)(3) Private area of an individual. – The naked or undergarment clad genitals, 22
pubic area, buttocks, or female breast of that individual. 23
(3)(4) Room. – Includes, but is not limited to, a bedroom, a rest room, a bathroom, a 24
shower, a dressing room, a dressing stall, a cubicle, or other similar area 25
designed to provide privacy. 26
(4)(5) Under circumstances in which that individual has a reasonable expectation of 27
privacy. – Means either of the following: 28
a. Circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that he or 29
she could disrobe in privacy, without being concerned that a 30
photographic image of a private area of the individual was being 31
created. 32

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b. Circumstances in which a reasonable person would believe that a 1
private area of the individual would not be visible to the public, 2
regardless of whether that person is in a public or private place. 3
(c) Unless covered by another provision of law providing greater punishment, any person 4
who, while in possession of any device which may be used to create a photographic image and 5
with the intent to create a photographic image, shall secretly peep into any room shall be guilty 6
of a Class A1 misdemeanor. Any person who commits a violation of this subsection in which the 7
victim is a minor shall be guilty of a Class I felony. 8
(d) Unless covered by another provision of law providing greater punishment, any person 9
who, while secretly peeping into any room, uses any device to create a photographic image of 10
another person in that room for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any 11
person shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Any person who commits a violation of this subsection 12
in which the victim is a minor shall be guilty of a Class H felony. 13
(e1) Unless covered under some other provision of law providing greater punishment, any 14
person who, with the intent to create a photographic image of a private area of an individual 15
without the individual's consent, knowingly does so under circumstances in which the individual 16
has a reasonable expectation of privacy shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Any person who 17
commits a violation of this subsection in which the victim is a minor shall be guilty of a Class H 18
felony. 19
(f) Any Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who, for the purpose 20
of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of any person, secretly or surreptitiously uses or installs 21
in a room any device that can be used to create a photographic image with the intent to capture 22
the image of another without their consent shall be guilty of a Class I felony. Any person who 23
commits a violation of this subsection in which the victim is a minor shall be guilty of a Class H 24
felony. 25
(g) Any Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, any person who knowingly 26
possesses a photographic image that the person knows, or has reason to believe, was obtained in 27
violation of this section shall be guilty of a Cl