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  1  1                                         SENATE FILE 63
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO CHILD ENDANGERMENT VIOLATIONS AND INJURIES TO
  1  5    A CHILD OR MINOR AND PROVIDING PENALTIES.  
  1  6 
  1  7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1  8 
  1  9    Section 1.  Section 702.11, subsection 2, Code 2001, is
  1 10 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 11    NEW PARAGRAPH.  e.  Child endangerment resulting in bodily
  1 12 injury to a child in violation of section 726.6, subsection
  1 13 2A.
  1 14    Sec. 2.  Section 726.6, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph
  1 15 1, Code 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 16    A person who is the parent, guardian, or person having
  1 17 custody or control over a child or a minor under the age of
  1 18 eighteen with a mental or physical disability, or a person who
  1 19 is a member of the household in which a child or such a minor
  1 20 resides, commits child endangerment when the person does any
  1 21 of the following:
  1 22    Sec. 3.  Section 726.6, subsection 1, paragraph b, Code
  1 23 2001, is amended to read as follows:
  1 24    b.  By an intentional act or series of intentional acts,
  1 25 uses unreasonable force, torture or cruelty that results in
  1 26 physical bodily injury, or that is intended to cause serious
  1 27 injury.
  1 28    Sec. 4.  Section 726.6, Code 2001, is amended by adding the
  1 29 following new subsections:
  1 30    NEW SUBSECTION.  1A.  For the purposes of subsection 1,
  1 31 "person having control over a child or a minor" means any of
  1 32 the following:
  1 33    a.  A person who has accepted, undertaken, or assumed
  1 34 supervision of a child or such a minor from the parent or
  1 35 guardian of the child or minor.
  2  1    b.  A person who has undertaken or assumed temporary
  2  2 supervision of a child or such a minor without explicit
  2  3 consent from the parent or guardian of the child or minor.
  2  4    c.  A person who operates a motor vehicle with a child or
  2  5 such a minor present in the vehicle.
  2  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  A person who commits child
  2  7 endangerment resulting in bodily injury to a child or minor is
  2  8 guilty of a class "D" felony.
  2  9    Sec. 5.  Section 726.6, subsection 3, Code 2001, is amended
  2 10 to read as follows:
  2 11    3.  A person who commits child endangerment not resulting
  2 12 in bodily injury or serious injury to a child or minor is
  2 13 guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor.  
  2 14 
  2 15 
  2 16                                                             
  2 17                               MARY E. KRAMER
  2 18                               President of the Senate
  2 19 
  2 20 
  2 21                                                             
  2 22                               BRENT SIEGRIST
  2 23                               Speaker of the House
  2 24 
  2 25    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
  2 26 is known as Senate File 63, Seventy-ninth General Assembly.
  2 27 
  2 28 
  2 29                                                             
  2 30                               MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
  2 31                               Secretary of the Senate
  2 32 Approved                , 2001
  2 33 
  2 34 
  2 35                                
  3  1 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  3  2 Governor
     

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