89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2446: Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on May 24, 2022. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor, and makes penalties applicable. Current law provides that it is unlawful to knowingly purchase or possess a visual depiction of a minor engaging in a prohibited sexual act or the simulation of a prohibited sexual act. A visual depiction containing pictorial representations of different minors shall be prosecuted and punished as separate offenses for each pictorial representation of a different minor in the visual depiction. However, violations involving multiple visual depictions containing pictorial representations of the same minor shall be prosecuted and punished as one offense.

Cost

Cost: up to $16,600

House File 2446 modifies an existing criminal offense, and the fiscal impact cannot be estimated because it is not known how many past offenses involved multiple images of the same minor. The average State cost per offense for a Class D felony ranges from $9,1…

Senate subcommittee · named March 1, 2022

Sen. Dan Dawson (R) · dan.dawson@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Kevin Kinney (D)
Sen. J. Taylor

Lobbying · 5 for, 0 against

For: Iowa County Attorneys Association; Iowa State Bar Association; Iowa State Sheriffs' & Deputies' Association; Network Against Human Trafficking; VALOR Iowa

In plain words

February 16, 2022Filed in the House
February 17, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
February 24, 2022Passed the House, 96–0
February 24, 2022Arrived in the Senate
March 1, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Dawson, Kinney and J. Taylor