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[120 STAT. 648]
PUBLIC LAW 109-000—MMMM. DD, 2006
[120 STAT. 648]

120 STAT. 648

PUBLIC LAW 109–248—JULY 27, 2006 ‘‘(1) Whoever engages in a child exploitation enterprise shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for any term of years not less than 20 or for life. ‘‘(2) A person engages in a child exploitation enterprise for the purposes of this section if the person violates section 1591, section 1201 if the victim is a minor, or chapter 109A (involving a minor victim), 110 (except for sections 2257 and 2257A), or 117 (involving a minor victim), as a part of a series of felony violations constituting three or more separate incidents and involving more than one victim, and commits those offenses in concert with three or more other persons.’’.

Penalties.

SEC. 702. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS.

(a) OFFENSE.—Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘§ 2260A. Penalties for registered sex offenders ‘‘Whoever, being required by Federal or other law to register as a sex offender, commits a felony offense involving a minor under section 1201, 1466A, 1470, 1591, 2241, 2242, 2243, 2244, 2245, 2251, 2251A, 2260, 2421, 2422, 2423, or 2425, shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 10 years in addition to the imprisonment imposed for the offense under that provision. The sentence imposed under this section shall be consecutive to any sentence imposed for the offense under that provision.’’. (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new item: ‘‘2260A. Increased penalties for registered sex offenders.’’. SEC. 703. DECEPTION BY EMBEDDED WORDS OR IMAGES.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 110 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2252B the following: Penalties.

Penalties.

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‘‘§ 2252C. Misleading words or digital images on the Internet ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a person into viewing material constituting obscenity shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 10 years. ‘‘(b) MINORS.—Whoever knowingly embeds words or digital images into the source code of a website with the intent to deceive a minor into viewing material harmful to minors on the Internet shall be fined under this title and imprisoned for not more than 20 years. ‘‘(c) CONSTRUCTION.—For the purposes of this section, a word or digital image that clearly indicates the sexual content of the site, such as ‘sex’ or ‘porn’, is not misleading. ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section— ‘‘(1) the terms ‘material that is harmful to minors’ and ‘sex’ have the meaning given such terms in section 2252B; and ‘‘(2) the term ‘source code’ means the combination of text and other characters comprising the content, both viewable and nonviewable, of a web page, including any website publishing language, programming language, protocol or functional content, as well as any successor languages or protocols.’’.

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