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90th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 399: Relating to tampering with witnesses or jurors, and providing penalties

Died when the session ended · The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to tampering with witnesses or jurors. Current law provides that a person who offers a bribe, makes threats, or improperly detains or restrains another person who the person believes has been or will be summoned as a witness or juror in any judicial or arbitration proceeding or legislative hearing for the purpose of influencing or preventing the other person’s testimony or preventing the other person from serving as a juror on the case, commits an aggravated misdemeanor. The bill increases the penalty for tampering with a witness or juror to a class “C” felony.

Sponsors

Judiciary committee

Cost

Cost: up to $151,000

House File 399 is estimated to increase costs to the DOC by at least $151,000 per group of individuals admitted to DOC supervision each year for this offense, as shown in Table 1. This cost is incurred across the entire LOS. Table 1 represents the cost of all …

Lobbying · 1 for, 1 against

For: Iowa County Attorneys Association

Against: Iowa Association for Justice

In plain words

  1. February 22, 2023Filed in the House
  2. February 27, 2023Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF399