Relating to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles, and providing penalties

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 13, 2026
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 13, 2026
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeJanuary 27, 2026
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to sexual misconduct with offenders and juveniles. The bill increases the penalty from an aggravated misdemeanor to a class “D” felony for any peace officer, or an officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or an agent of the department of corrections or a judicial district department of correctional services or an agent of a county, or an agent of a juvenile placement facility or county jail, who engages in a sex act with a person committed to the custody of the department of corrections or a judicial district department of correctional services, with a juvenile placed at a juvenile placement facility, or with a prisoner incarcerated in a county jail.

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

House subcommittee

Named January 13, 2026 (as HSB 529). On January 20, 2026 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Mike Vondran REmail
• Rep. Jerome Amos Jr. DEmail
• Rep. Matthew Rinker REmail

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Fiscal note

Minimal Compare with other bills

The fiscal impact of the Bill is estimated to be minimal. Figure 2 shows the average State cost per relevant offense and shows the estimated cost increase for one conviction from the increased penalty under the Bill. The estimated impact to the General Fund includes operating costs incurred by the Judicial Branch, the Indigent Defense Fund, and the DOC.

• Sexual Misconduct with Offenders and Juveniles, Felony · February 24, 2026

Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§709.16

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

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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