“To amend title 18, United States Code, to expand the scope of the prohibition against video voyeurism.”
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This section provides the short title of the Act as the “Stop Victimizers and Offenders from Yielding Explicit Unconsented Recordings Surreptitiously Act of 2025” or the “Stop VOYEURS Act of 2025.”
This section expands the federal video voyeurism offense under 18 U.S.C. § 1801 by replacing the current jurisdictional limit to conduct occurring “in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” with a broader set of interstate or foreign commerce-based circumstances, and increases the maximum prison term to 5 years (from 1 year). It also adds a new subsection defining 7 jurisdictional triggers, including use of interstate commerce channels or instrumentalities, interstate travel by the offender or victim, payments made through interstate commerce, communications transmitted in interstate or foreign commerce, use of equipment that has traveled in interstate commerce, conduct occurring in federal territorial jurisdiction, or conduct otherwise affecting interstate or foreign commerce. (Thus, the offense would apply more broadly to video voyeurism cases involving interstate or foreign commerce connections, not only those occurring in federal enclaves.)