Iowa legislation · 91st General Assembly
Iowa SF35: A BILL FOR An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable
Status: Passed one chamber, April 7, 2025
An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.
What the bill says
A bill FOR An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.
From the introduced text, January 14, 2025:
A BILL FOR An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 1084XS (2) as/js S.F. Section 1. Section 708.7, subsection 1, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new paragraph: NEW PARAGRAPH. c. A person commits harassment when the person purposefully and without legitimate purpose disseminates, publishes, distributes, or posts personal information about another person, without the other person's consent, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, annoy, or alarm the other person, or with the intent to encourage or entice third parties to threaten, intimidate, annoy, or alarm the other person. Sec. 2. Section 708.7, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: NEW SUBPARAGRAPH. (5) A violation of subsection 1, paragraph "c". Sec. 3. Section 708.7, subsection 8, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new paragraph: NEW PARAGRAPH. 0c. "Personal information" means a person's contact information or the contact information of the person's family, including but not limited to the person's or family's home address, phone number, email address, social media profile, place of employment, photographic or film depictions of the person or the person's family, or any other information designed to allow other persons to …
Sponsors
- Charlie McClintock (R, 42) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Rereferred to Public Safety. H.J. 1221 .
- : Read first time, passed on file. H.J. 906 .
- : Message from Senate. H.J. 905 .
- : Immediate message. S.J. 706 .
- : Passed Senate , yeas 47, nays 0. S.J. 703 .
- : Placed on calendar under unfinished business. S.J. 688 .
- : Fiscal note .
- : Placed on calendar.
- : Committee report, recommending passage. S.J. 437 .
- : Subcommittee recommends passage.
Votes
- Passed Senate , yeas 47, nays 0. S.J. 703 . (April 7, 2025): 47 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Committee report, recommending passage. S.J. 437 . (March 6, 2025): 19 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SF35?
- SF35 is a bill in the Iowa Legislature (91st General Assembly): A BILL FOR An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.
- What does SF35 do?
- In its own words: A bill FOR An Act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.
- What is the status of SF35?
- Passed one chamber as of April 7, 2025. Latest action: Rereferred to Public Safety. H.J. 1221 . (May 15, 2025).
- Who sponsored SF35?
- Charlie McClintock (R, 42).
- Where is the official record for SF35?
- On the Iowa Legislature website: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ba=SF+0035&ga=91
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