HF 18 (LSB 1315YH (2) 89)

HOUSE FILE 18

BY  HITE

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to abuse of a human corpse and providing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 708.14, subsection 2, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  A person who violates this section commits a class “D” “C” felony.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to abuse of a corpse and provides penalties.
   Under current law, a person commits the crime of abuse of a human corpse if the person mutilates, disfigures, or dismembers a human corpse with the intent to conceal a crime or hides or buries a human corpse with the intent to conceal a crime. The bill increases the penalty for conviction of abuse of a human corpse from a class “D” felony to a class “C” felony.
   A class “C” felony is punishable by confinement for no more than 10 years and a fine of at least $1,370 but not more than $13,660.