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 04/09/26 - Amended Senate
 02/10/26 - Introduced

 SB-1015 Crimes: minors.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/24/2026 09:00 PM

SB1015:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 24, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 09, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1015

Introduced by Senator Strickland

February 10, 2026

An act to amend Section 518 of, and to add Section 288.6 to, to add Section 288.6 to the Penal Code, relating to crimes.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1015, as amended, Strickland.
 Crimes: minors.

Existing law makes every person who contacts or communicates with a minor, or attempts to contact or communicate with a minor, as specified, with intent to commit certain offenses, including any lewd or lascivious act, involving the minor, punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, as provided.

This bill would make any adult person who recruits, induces, coerces, or persuades a minor to commit an illegal act against another minor, or to solicit physical harm, sexual conduct, or images of an intimate body part, from another minor, or who utilizes a minor as a conduit of communication to facilitate any such acts guilty of a crime punishable either as a misdemeanor or a felony. By creating a new crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

Existing law defines extortion as the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with their consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right. Existing law excludes from this provision a person under 18 years of age who has obtained consideration consisting of sexual conduct or an image of an intimate body part.

This bill would except from that
 exclusion cases where the minor has knowingly threatened, intimidated, or coerced another minor to engage in any sexual conduct or obtain an image of an intimate body part from another minor, including an image of an intimate body part that is produced by artificial intelligence and depicts the identity of another minor. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the “Protecting Our Children from Online Extortion Act.”

SEC. 2.

 Section 288.6 is added to the Penal Code, to read:

288.6.

 (a) Any adult person who, via any method of communication, recruits, induces, coerces, or persuades a minor to commit an illegal act against another minor, or to solicit physical harm, sexual conduct, or images of an intimate body part, from another minor, or who utilizes a minor as a conduit of communication to facilitate any of the foregoing is guilty of a crime, punishable by imprisonment in county jail for one year, or by a fine of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both, or pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.

(b) For the purposes of this section the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Conduit of communication” means a minor whose digital identity or physical presence is used as a medium to transmit, relay, or facilitate the delivery of communications to another minor for the purposes of engaging in the conduct described in subdivision (a).

(2) “Intimate body part” has the same meaning as in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (4) of subdivision (j) of Section 647.

(3) “Sexual conduct” has the same meaning as in Section 311.3.

SEC. 3.Section 518 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

518.(a)Extortion is the obtaining of property or other consideration from another, with their consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer, induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of official right.

(b)For purposes of this chapter, “consideration” means an