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

SF 470: Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. 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.

Sponsors

Judiciary committee

Cost

Cost: up to $17,400

Senate File 470 modifies an existing criminal offense, and the fiscal impact cannot be estimated because the number of past convictions involving multiple images of the same minor is not known. The average State cost per offense for a Class D felony ranges fro…

Senate subcommittee · named January 11, 2024

  • Sen. J. Taylor
  • Sen. Tony Bisignano (D) · tony.bisignano@legis.iowa.gov
  • Sen. Scott Webster (R) · scott.webster@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 10 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Attorney General Dept. of Justice; Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Iowa County Attorneys Association; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Iowa Organization for Victim Assistance; Iowa Police Chief Association (FKA Iowa Police Executive Forum); Iowa State Sheriffs' & Deputies' Association; Network Against Human Trafficking; Protect My Innocence; Soaring Hearts

In plain words

  1. March 1, 2023Filed in the Senate
  2. March 1, 2023Approved by the Senate committee
  3. March 6, 2023Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. June 5, 2023Sent to the Senate Judiciary committee
  5. January 11, 2024Senate subcommittee named: J. Taylor, Bisignano and Webster
  6. January 30, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it
  7. February 8, 2024Approved by the Senate committee

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/90/SF470