HF 825 (LSB 2492HV (3) 89)

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 sexual abuse, which may contain but is not limited to any of the provisions specified in subsection 1.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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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.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2022

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor