Official Text and Analysis.

Exempts minors from certain crimes relating to depictions of other minors Age 13 and older. Creates a new offense of Minor Dealing in Depictions of Another Minor Age 13 or Older Engaged in Sexual Conduct.

Defines "image" to mean a photograph, moving picture, or other depiction of the unclothed breast, unclothed genitals, or unclothed pubic area or buttocks. Limits the exemption from criminal activity involving minors and depictions of themselves to possession of images of themselves and distribution or exchange of such images with one other person. Creates a misdemeanor offense when a person under eighteen years of age disseminates or exchanges an image of himself or herself with more than one other person. Creates a misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor offense depending on the type of conduct depicted when a person under eighteen years of age possesses, distributes, exchanges, finances, attempts to finance, sells, develops, duplicates, publishes, or prints a visual or printed matter that depicts himself or herself engaged in an act of sexually explicit conduct.

Increases the crime of minor dealing in depictions of another minor 13 years of age or older in the first degree to a class B felony and the crime in the second degree to a gross misdemeanor. Narrows the exemption allowed for sending or receiving depictions of another minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct to only the conduct defined in RCW 9.68A.011(4) (f) or (g). Similarly narrows the exemption for viewing or possessing depictions of another minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Allows minors to be diverted when they intentionally send, receive, or view depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct as defined in RCW 9.68A.011(4) (a) through (e).