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  1  1                                             SENATE FILE 2335
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF SEX ACTS BETWEEN JUVENILES AND
  1  5    EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS AT JUVENILE PLACEMENT FACILITIES AND 
  1  6    BETWEEN PRISONERS INCARCERATED IN A COUNTY JAIL AND EMPLOYEES
  1  7    OR AGENTS OF A COUNTY AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.  
  1  8 
  1  9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1 10 
  1 11    Section 1.  Section 709.16, Code 1997, is amended to read
  1 12 as follows:
  1 13    709.16  SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH OFFENDERS AND JUVENILES.
  1 14    1.  An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or
  1 15 agent of the department of corrections, or an officer,
  1 16 employee, or agent of a judicial district department of
  1 17 correctional services, who engages in a sex act with an
  1 18 individual committed to the custody of the department of
  1 19 corrections or a judicial district department of correctional
  1 20 services commits an aggravated misdemeanor.
  1 21    2.  An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or
  1 22 agent of a juvenile placement facility who engages in a sex
  1 23 act with a juvenile placed at such facility commits an
  1 24 aggravated misdemeanor.
  1 25    For purposes of this subsection, a "juvenile placement
  1 26 facility" means any of the following:
  1 27    a.  A child foster care facility licensed under section
  1 28 237.4.
  1 29    b.  Institutions controlled by the department of human
  1 30 services listed in section 218.1.
  1 31    c.  Juvenile detention and juvenile shelter care homes
  1 32 approved under section 232.142.
  1 33    d.  Psychiatric medical institutions for children licensed
  1 34 under chapter 135H.
  1 35    e.  Substance abuse facilities as defined in section 125.2.
  2  1    3.  An officer, employee, contractor, vendor, volunteer, or
  2  2 agent of a county who engages in a sex act with a prisoner
  2  3 incarcerated in a county jail commits an aggravated
  2  4 misdemeanor.  
  2  5 
  2  6 
  2  7                                                             
  2  8                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2  9                               President of the Senate
  2 10 
  2 11 
  2 12                                                             
  2 13                               RON J. CORBETT
  2 14                               Speaker of the House
  2 15 
  2 16    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  2 17 is known as Senate File 2335, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  2 18 
  2 19 
  2 20                                                             
  2 21                               MARY PAT GUNDERSON
  2 22                               Secretary of the Senate
  2 23 Approved                , 1998
  2 24 
  2 25 
  2 26                         
  2 27 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  2 28 Governor
     

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