Relating to the criminal offense of grooming, and making penalties applicable

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 24, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the House
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 the criminal offense of grooming. The bill provides that a person commits grooming if the person seduces, solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed to be a child, which includes a law enforcement officer or agent posing as be a child.

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 February 25, 2025. On February 26, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Rep. Joshua Meggers REmail
• Rep. Daniel Gosa DEmail
• Rep. Matthew Rinker REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§709.8A

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