Relating to medical malpractice by exempting claims involving sexual assault from the limitations on noneconomic damages

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedFebruary 3, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 4, 2025
3. ✕
   Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
4. Next: Passes the Senate
5. Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
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 October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill creates an exception to a medical malpractice limitation on damages in personal injury actions that involve a sexual assault. The bill provides that if the health care provider is a defendant in a personal injury action, the limitation on noneconomic damages does not apply if the defendant’s action is sexual in nature regardless of if the action was committed under the guise of medical diagnosis, counseling, or treatment or if the patient believed at the time the act occurred it was for medical diagnosis, counseling, or treatment.

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 4, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.

• Sen. Mike Bousselot REmail
• Sen. Matt Blake DEmail
• Sen. Jason Schultz REmail

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§147.136A

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Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

• SF 2175 Relating to medical malpractice by exempting claims involving sexual assault from the limi…
  90th General Assembly · In committee · same title
  Cleared committee

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