Relating to telemarketing consumer frauds and modifying civil penalties

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 7, 2024
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 7, 2024
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to telemarketing consumer fraud and modifies civil penalties. Under current law, it is a consumer fraud for a person to act, use, or employ an unfair practice, deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, and misrepresentation or concealment, suppression, and omission of a material fact with the intent for another person to rely on the act or omission in connection with a sale, lease, or advertisement of merchandise or in the solicitation of contributions for a charitable purpose regardless of whether the person had been misled, deceived, or damaged. A person who does so is subject to a civil penalty no greater than $40,000 per violation. Under the bill, a person who does so over the telephone is subject to an $80,000 civil penalty per violation.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Senate subcommittee

Named February 7, 2024. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Mike Bousselot REmail
• Sen. Izaah Knox DEmail
• Sen. Scott Webster REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§714.16

Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works