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

Where it is now

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   Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
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   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
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   Done: Senate committeeJanuary 29, 2025
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   Done: Passes the SenateMarch 24, 202549–0
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   Done: House committeeApril 1, 2025
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   Done: Passes the HouseApril 23, 202592–0
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   Done: To the GovernorMay 6, 2025
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   Done: Signed into lawMay 6, 2025

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What’s in it

This bill relates to sexual exploitation of a minor.12(3) prohibits knowingly purchasing or possessing a visual depiction of a minor engaging in a prohibited sexual act or the simulation of a prohibited sexual act. Currently, visual depictions containing pictorial representations of different minors are prosecuted and punished as separate offenses for each pictorial representation of a different minor. However, violations involving multiple visual depictions containing pictorial representations of the same minor are prosecuted and punished as one offense.

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

Senate subcommittee

Named January 15, 2025. On January 23, 2025 it recommended passage.

• Sen. Cherielynn Westrich REmail
• Sen. Jeff Reichman REmail
• Sen. Janice Weiner DEmail

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Fiscal note

12(3); however, the extent of the increase in costs to the Department of Corrections (DOC) is unknown.

• Final Fiscal Note — Sexual Exploitation of a Minor · June 10, 2025
• Sexual Exploitation of a Minor · February 11, 2025

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§728.12

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Family tree

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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Tried before

This idea has been filed in 2 earlier General Assemblies. None became law, though one got through a chamber.

• SF 221 Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable
  90th General Assembly · Renumbered as SF 470 · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 470 Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable
  90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · same title
  Cleared committee
• SF 2217 Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable
  90th General Assembly · In committee · similar
  Cleared committee
• HF 2232 Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable
  89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2446 · same title
  Cleared committee
• HF 2446 Relating to sexual exploitation of a minor, and making penalties applicable
  89th General Assembly · Passed House · same title
  Passed a chamber

Matched by the wording of each bill’s explanation, or an identical title. Companion bills and renumbered versions of this bill aren’t listed; they’re the same bill.