Bill Text: IA SF2183 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the limitations on criminal actions for the criminal offense of child endangerment. (Formerly SF 2083.)

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-01 - Subcommittee, Baxter, Gustafson, and Olson. H.J. 376. [SF2183 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-SF2183-Introduced.html

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Senate File 2183 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO SF 2083)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the limitations on criminal actions for the
  2    criminal offense of child endangerment.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 802.2B, Code 2016, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  5A.  Child endangerment in violation of
  1  4 section 726.6.
  1  5                           EXPLANATION
  1  6 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1  7 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1  8    This bill relates to the limitations on criminal actions for
  1  9 the criminal offense of child endangerment.
  1 10    Under the bill, an information or indictment for child
  1 11 endangerment in violation of Code section 726.6 committed on or
  1 12 with a person who is a child under the age of 14 or who is under
  1 13 the age of 18 and who has a mental or physical disability,
  1 14 shall be found within 10 years after the person upon whom the
  1 15 offense is committed attains 18 years of age.
  1 16    Current law provides that an indictment or information
  1 17 shall  be found within three years after its commission. The
  1 18 punishment for child endangerment ranges from a class "B"
  1 19 felony to an aggravated misdemeanor depending on the facts of
  1 20 the case.
  1 21    The bill also provides that if the person against whom the
  1 22 information or indictment for child endangerment is sought is
  1 23 identified through the use of a DNA profile, an information
  1 24 or indictment shall be found within 10 years after the person
  1 25 upon whom the offense was committed attains 18 years of age, or
  1 26 within three years from the date the person is identified by
  1 27 the person's DNA profile, whichever is later.
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