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2025-2026 Bill 3641 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 12, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3641

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 16-15-375, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN OFFENSES 
AGAINST MINORS PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 16-15-385 THROUGH 16-15-425, SO AS TO 
DEFINE "IDENTIFIABLE MINOR" AND "MORPHED IMAGE"; BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-395, 
RELATING TO FIRST DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR, SO AS TO INCORPORATE 
MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE CHILDREN WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THIS SECTION; BY 
AMENDING SECTION 16-15-405, RELATING TO SECOND DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A 
MINOR, SO AS TO INCORPORATE MORPHED IMAGES OF IDENTIFIABLE CHILDREN WITHIN THE 
PURVIEW OF THIS SECTION; BY AMENDING SECTION 16-15-410, RELATING TO THIRD 
DEGREE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR, SO AS TO INCORPORATE MORPHED IMAGES OF 
IDENTIFIABLE CHILDREN WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THIS SECTION; BY AMENDING SECTION 
23-3-430, RELATING TO THE SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY, SO AS TO INCORPORATE THOSE 
CONVICTED OF CRIMINAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF A MINOR IN THE FIRST, SECOND, OR 
THIRD DEGREE WITHIN THE CLASSIFICATION OF TIER II OFFENDER; AND BY AMENDING 
SECTION 23-3-462, RELATING TO TERMINATION OF REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS, SO AS 
TO CLARIFY THE TIME AFTER WHICH THE OFFENDER MAY REQUEST TERMINATION OF THE 
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT.

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 16-15-375 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
16-15-375. The following definitions apply to 
Section 16-15-385, disseminating or exhibiting to minors harmful material or 
performances; Section 16-15-387, employing a person under the age of eighteen 
years to appear in a state of sexually explicit nudity in a public place; 
Section 16-15-395, first degree sexual exploitation of a minor; Section 16-15-405, 
second degree sexual exploitation of a minor; Section 16-15-410, third degree 
sexual exploitation of a minor; Section 16-15-415, promoting prostitution of a 
minor; and Section 16-15-425, participating in prostitution of a minor.

 (1) 
"Harmful to minors" means that quality of any material or performance that 
depicts sexually explicit nudity or sexual activity and that, taken as a whole, 
has the following characteristics:

 (a) 
the average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find 
that the material or performance has a predominant tendency to appeal to a 
prurient interest of minors in sex; and

 (b) 
the average adult person applying contemporary community standards would find 
that the depiction of sexually explicit nudity or sexual activity in the 
material or performance is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the 
adult community concerning what is suitable for minors; and

 (c) 
to a reasonable person, the material or performance taken as a whole lacks 
serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.

 (2) 
"Material" means pictures, drawings, video recordings, films, digital 
electronic files, computer generated images or pictures, or 
other visual depictions or representations but not material consisting entirely 
of written words.

 (3) 
"Minor" means an individual who is less than eighteen years old.

 (4) 
"Prostitution" means engaging or offering to engage in sexual activity with or 
for another in exchange for anything of value.

 (5) 
"Sexual activity" includes any of the following acts or simulations thereof:

 (a) 
masturbation, whether done alone or with another human or animal;

 (b) 
vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse, whether done with another human or an 
animal;

 (c) 
touching, in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or sexual abuse, of the 
clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, or buttocks of another person or the 
clothed or unclothed breasts of a human female;

 (d) 
an act or condition that depicts bestiality, sado-masochistic abuse, meaning 
flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude or clad in 
undergarments or in a costume which reveals the pubic hair, anus, vulva, 
genitals, or female breast nipples, or the condition of being fettered, bound, 
or otherwise physically restrained on the part of the one so clothed;

 (e) 
excretory functions;

 (f) 
the insertion of any part of a person's body, other than the male sexual organ, 
or of any object into another person's anus or vagina, except when done as part 
of a recognized medical procedure.

 (6) 
"Sexually explicit nudity" means the showing of:

 (a) 
uncovered, or less than opaquely covered human genitals, pubic area, or 
buttocks, or the nipple or any portion of the areola of the human female 
breast; or

 (b) 
covered human male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.

 (7) "Identifiable minor"