Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to confidential records including booking photographs
Sponsored by Sen. Jeff Taylor (R)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 21, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- 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 confidential records including booking photographs.F. The bill defines “booking photograph” as a photograph or still, nonvideo image of a person generated by a law enforcement agency for identification purposes after an arrest or while the person is in the law enforcement agency’s custody. The bill provides that a booking photograph is a confidential record, but may be released, published, or disseminated for any of the following reasons: a court has determined that the person in the booking photograph is a fugitive, and releasing or disseminating the booking photograph will assist in apprehending the person; a court determines that the person is an imminent threat to an individual or to public safety; or the person is convicted of a class “A” or class “B” felony not involving a controlled substance.
Read the full explanation
The bill does not apply to interagency dissemination of booking photographs between law enforcement agencies. For purposes of the bill, “conviction” does not include a deferred judgment unless the deferred judgment was subsequently revoked by the court and judgment was pronounced and a sentence was imposed.
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 January 23, 2025. On January 29, 2025 it recommended amendment and passage.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§22.7
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
5 for · 1 against · 8 undecided · Who →
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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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Tried before
This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.
- HF 2309 Relating to confidential records including booking photographs90th General Assembly · Approved by committee · similarCleared committee
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- HF 47 Relating to confidential records including booking photographs91st General Assembly · Approved by committeeSimilar
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