House File 561 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 561 BY BAGNIEWSKI and LOHSE A BILL FOR An Act relating to the criminal offense of grooming, and making 1 penalties applicable. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 2758YH (3) 91 as/js
H.F. 561 Section 1. Section 709.8A, Code 2025, is amended to read as 1 follows: 2 709.8A Grooming. 3 1. A person commits grooming when the person knowingly 4 performs an act in person or by conduct through a third party, 5 uses a computer, internet service, or any other electronic 6 storage or transmission device, or uses written communication 7 to seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, or attempt to seduce, 8 solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed to be a 9 child , including a law enforcement officer or agent posing as a 10 child, to commit any unlawful sex act or to otherwise engage in 11 unlawful sexual conduct. As used in this section , child means 12 a person under eighteen years of age. 13 2. Grooming is a class D felony. 14 EXPLANATION 15 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 16 the explanations substance by the members of the general assembly. 17 This bill relates to the criminal offense of grooming. 18 The bill provides that a person commits grooming if the 19 person seduces, solicits, lures, or entices, or attempts to 20 seduce, solicit, lure, or entice, a child or a person believed 21 to be a child, which includes a law enforcement officer or 22 agent posing as be a child. 23 -1- LSB 2758YH (3) 91 as/js 1/ 1