Bill Text: IA HF281 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the criminal offense of invasion of privacy, and providing penalties.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-09 - Introduced, referred to Judiciary. H.J. 259. [HF281 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF281-Introduced.html

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House File 281 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  JONES

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the criminal offense of invasion of privacy,
  2    and providing penalties.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 709.21, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  The other person does not have knowledge about and
  1  4  does not consent or is unable to consent to being viewed,
  1  5 photographed, or filmed.
  1  6                           EXPLANATION
  1  7 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  8 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  9    This bill relates to the criminal offense of invasion of
  1 10 privacy.
  1 11    The bill strikes, as an element of the offense, the
  1 12 requirement that the victim of an invasion of privacy offense
  1 13 does not have knowledge about being viewed, photographed, or
  1 14 filmed, while in a state of full or partial nudity, and with a
  1 15 reasonable expectation of privacy.
  1 16    A person who commits invasion of privacy commits an
  1 17 aggravated misdemeanor and is required to register as a sex
  1 18 offender.  A person who commits invasion of privacy is also
  1 19 subject to a 10=year special sentence under Code section
  1 20 903B.2.
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