House File 825 - Enrolled House File 825 AN ACT RELATING TO CONSENT AGREEMENTS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL ABUSE PROTECTIVE ORDERS. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: Section 1. Section 236.5, subsection 1, paragraph b, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows: The court may grant a protective order or approve a consent agreement which may contain but is not limited to any of the following provisions: Sec. 2. Section 236.5, Code 2021, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. The court may approve a consent agreement which may contain but is not limited to any of the provisions specified in subsection 1, paragraph “b” , without a finding the defendant has engaged in domestic abuse. Sec. 3. Section 236A.7, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows: Upon a finding that the defendant has engaged in sexual abuse, the court may grant a protective order or approve a consent agreement which may contain but is not limited to any of the following provisions: Sec. 4. Section 236A.7, Code 2021, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 1A. The court may approve a consent agreement without a finding that the defendant has engaged in

House File 825, p. 2 sexual abuse, which may contain but is not limited to any of the provisions specified in subsection 1. ______________________________ PAT GRASSLEY Speaker of the House ______________________________ JAKE CHAPMAN President of the Senate I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 825, Eighty-ninth General Assembly. ______________________________ MEGHAN NELSON Chief Clerk of the House Approved _______________, 2022 ______________________________ KIM REYNOLDS Governor