HF 561 (LSB 2758YH (3) 91)

HOUSE FILE 561

BY  BAGNIEWSKI and LOHSE

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the criminal offense of grooming, and making penalties applicable.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 709.8A, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   709.8A  Grooming.
   1.  A person commits grooming when the person knowingly performs an act in person or by conduct through a third party, uses a computer, internet service, or any other electronic storage or transmission device, or uses written communication to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed to be a child, including a law enforcement officer or agent posing as a child, to commit any unlawful sex act or to otherwise engage in unlawful sexual conduct. As used in this section, “child” means a person under eighteen years of age.
   2.  Grooming is a class “D” 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 the criminal offense of grooming.
   The bill provides that a person commits grooming if the person seduces, solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed to be a child, which includes a law enforcement officer or agent posing as be a child.