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

SF 2169: Relating to assisted reproduction fraud, and providing penalties

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 creates the fraud in assisted reproduction Act. The bill provides definitions for the purposes of the bill including “assisted reproduction”, “donor”, “gamete”, “health care professional”, “health facility”, “human reproductive material”, “patient”, and “physician”. The bill prohibits a person from engaging in a practice or act the person knows or reasonably should have known provides false information to a patient related to an assisted reproduction procedure or treatment. The bill prohibits a physician or a health facility from knowingly or intentionally using or providing a patient with human reproductive material for assisted reproduction other than that to which the patient expressly consented in writing and from using or providing a patient with human reproductive material for assisted reproduction that is not provided with the donor’s consent or in a manner or to an extent other than that to which the donor consented.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

Cost: up to $22,100

House File 2160 as amended establishes new criminal offenses and applies specifically to health care professionals, and the fiscal impact cannot be estimated due to a lack of existing conviction data. The average State cost per offense for an aggravated misdem…

Senate subcommittee · named February 8, 2022

  • Sen. Annette Sweeney (R) · annette.sweeney@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Amanda Ragan (D)
  • Sen. Mark Costello (R) · mark.costello@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Iowa State Bar Association; League of Women Voters of Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 1, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Human Resources committee
  2. February 8, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Sweeney, Ragan and Costello
  3. February 16, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  4. February 21, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  5. March 2, 2022Withdrawn

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2169