“Intimate visual material” means the visual material described by Section 21.16 (Unlawful Disclosure or Promotion of Intimate Visual Material)(b)(1) or (c).
A person commits an offense if the person intentionally threatens, including by coercion or extortion, to commit an offense under Chapter 19 (Criminal Homicide) or 20 (Kidnapping, Unlawful Restraint, and) or Section 20A.02 (Trafficking of Persons)(a)(1), (2), (5), or (6) to obtain, in return for not committing the threatened offense or in connection with the threatened offense, either of the following benefits:
This section applies to a threat regardless of how that threat is communicated, including a threat transmitted through e-mail or an Internet website, social media account, or chat room and a threat made by other electronic or technological means.
An offense under this section is a state jail felony, except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if it is shown on the trial of the offense that the defendant has previously been convicted of an offense under this section. Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 858 (H.B. 2552), Sec. 16(c), eff. September 1, 2017. Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1038 (H.B. 1808), Sec. 4(b), eff. September 1, 2017.