, with up to a three-month extension for certain qualifying individuals like veterans, people with disabilities, pregnant women, people with a job or people in workforce training.
Also Thursday, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill that would criminalize revenge porn. A version of it has already passed in the House. One revenge porn survivor who testified on Beacon Hill in support of these bills said he didn't realize until he went to file charges against his ex that the Bay State didn't have any laws holding people accountable for revenge porn.
But this time, lawmakers and advocates are hopeful the so-called revenge porn bill will be signed into law.The current legislation would make this violation of trust and privacy — criminal harassment — punishable by up to two and a half years in prison or a fine up to $10,000.
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