Bill Text: IA SF2199 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa Senate Bill 2199 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act modifying the periods of time to bring criminal actions for sexual abuse offenses against a minor, providing penalties, and including effective date provisions. (See SF 2375.)

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-14 - Subcommittee recommends passage. [SF2199 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-SF2199-Introduced.html


Senate File 2199 - Introduced




                                 SENATE FILE       
                                 BY  PETERSEN

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act modifying the periods of time to bring criminal actions
  2    for sexual abuse offenses against a minor, providing
  3    penalties, and including effective date provisions.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 802.2, subsection 1, Code 2018, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    1.  An information or indictment for sexual abuse in the
  1  4 first, second, or third degree committed on or with a person
  1  5 who is under the age of eighteen years shall be found within
  1  6 ten years after the person upon whom the offense is committed
  1  7 attains eighteen years of age, or if the person against whom
  1  8 the information or indictment is sought is identified through
  1  9 the use of a DNA profile, an information or indictment shall
  1 10 be found within three years from the date the person is
  1 11 identified by the person's DNA profile, whichever is later may
  1 12 be commenced at any time after the commission of the offense.
  1 13    Sec. 2.  Section 802.10, subsection 3, Code 2018, is amended
  1 14 to read as follows:
  1 15    3.  However, notwithstanding subsection 2, an indictment
  1 16 or information shall be found against a person within three
  1 17 years from the date the person is identified by the person's
  1 18 DNA profile. If the action involves sexual abuse of a person
  1 19 eighteen years of age or older, another sexual offense,
  1 20 kidnapping, or human trafficking, the indictment or information
  1 21 shall be found as provided in section 802.2, subsection 2,
  1 22  802.2B, 802.2C, or 802.2D, if the person is identified by the
  1 23 person's DNA profile.
  1 24    Sec. 3.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of
  1 25 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 28 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 29    This bill modifies the periods of time to bring criminal
  1 30 actions for sexual abuse offenses against a minor.
  1 31    The amendment to Code section 802.2 in the bill provides
  1 32 that a criminal information or indictment for sexual abuse
  1 33 in the first, second, or third degree committed on or with a
  1 34 person under the age of 18 may be commenced at any time after
  1 35 the commission of the offense. Current law specifies the
  2  1 indictment or information for such sexual abuse offenses be
  2  2 found within 10 years of the sexually abused person attaining
  2  3 18 years of age or within three years after being identified by
  2  4 DNA evidence, whichever is later.
  2  5    The bill takes effect upon enactment.
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