HF 2240 (LSB 5066HV (4) 90)

RELATING TO HARASSMENT BY THE DISSEMINATION, PUBLISHING,  DISTRIBUTION, OR POSTING OF A VISUAL DEPICTION SHOWING  ANOTHER PERSON IN A STATE OF FULL OR PARTIAL NUDITY OR  ENGAGED IN A SEX ACT THAT HAS BEEN ALTERED TO FALSELY DEPICT  ANOTHER PERSON, AND MAKING PENALTIES APPLICABLE. 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 692A.102, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (6), subparagraph division (a), Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  Harassment Except as provided in subparagraph division (0b), harassment in violation of section 708.7, subsection 1, 2, or 3, if a determination is made that the offense was sexually motivated pursuant to section 692A.126.
    Sec. 2.  Section 692A.102, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (6), Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph division:
   NEW SUBPARAGRAPH DIVISION.  (0b)  Harassment in violation of section 708.7, subsection 1, paragraph “a”, subparagraph (5), if committed by a person eighteen years of age or older.
    Sec. 3.  Section 708.7, subsection 1, paragraph a, subparagraph (5), Code 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   (5)  Disseminates, publishes, distributes, posts, or causes to be disseminated, published, distributed, or posted a photograph or film visual depiction as defined in section 728.1 showing another person in a state of full or partial nudity or engaged in a sex act, knowing that to which the other person has not consented to the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting. Notwithstanding subsection 5, a person eighteen years of age or older who commits a violation of this subparagraph shall be required to register as a sex offender pursuant to the provisions of chapter 692A. For purposes of this section, “another person” includes an individual, recognizable by the person’s face, likeness, or other distinguishing features, whose image is used to create, adapt, or modify a visual depiction to depict that other person in a manner as described in this subparagraph.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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AMY SINCLAIR
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2240, Ninetieth General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2024

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor