All Roll Calls
Yes: 136 • No: 0
IowaHF 103691st General Assembly (2025–2026)House
A bill for an act relating to human trafficking, including screening children, civil statutes of limitations, an annual stakeholder meeting and report, depositions of victims, restitution, restorative facilities and protective services, and investigation and prosecution, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 908, HF 452.) Effective date: 07/01/2026, 07/01/2027.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Signed by Governor
appropriationsjudiciary
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
5 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Minors protected from selling-sex charges
People under 18 cannot be arrested, charged, or prosecuted under Iowa’s prostitution law for selling or offering sexual services. Instead, they may be taken into temporary custody under child-protection law. Otherwise, they must be referred to the Department of Health and Human Services for a possible child-protection petition.
More time to sue over childhood harms
People get five years after reaching adulthood, up from one year, to file covered claims under Iowa Code chapters 216, 659A, 669, and 670. That extension excludes penalty and forfeiture actions and claims addressed by sections 614.1(9) and 614.8A. Separate rules allow claims for sexual abuse or trafficking during childhood within five years after turning 18. For qualifying damages claims involving injuries discovered after adulthood, the deadline is five years after discovering both the injury and its link to the abuse or trafficking.
More trafficking checks for at-risk children
Juvenile courts or their designees must review every juvenile complaint using a standard list of trafficking signs. If a sign appears, the court may order screening for commercial sexual exploitation. The Department of Health and Human Services must arrange that screening when it determines a report alleges child abuse. Both screening routes use standard, evidence-based tools designed to account for trauma. The department must start a child abuse assessment within 24 hours of receiving the report, or a family assessment within 72 hours.
Broader trafficking law and annual planning
Iowa’s trafficking definition expressly covers recruiting, harboring, transporting, supplying provisions to, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting a person for purposes listed in the trafficking statute. The law also requires an annual stakeholder meeting to develop anti-trafficking legislative proposals. Participants include state agencies, courts, law enforcement, attorneys, survivor representatives, and nonprofit groups. Reports are due to the governor and legislature by December 15, 2025, and annually through December 15, 2030.
New restitution category for offender reimbursements
Beginning July 1, 2026, payments reimbursing Iowa’s crime victim compensation program count as category A restitution. This applies when an offender owes those reimbursements as restitution. The change does not alter the amount owed.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 5/2/2026
Passed Senate
Yes: 45 • No: 0
House vote • 5/12/2025
Passed House
Yes: 91 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
NOBA: Final
5/19/2026legislatureSigned by Governor.
5/15/2026HouseReported correctly enrolled, signed by Speaker and President, and sent to Governor.
5/13/2026HouseMessage from Senate.
5/2/2026HouseImmediate message.
5/2/2026SenatePassed Senate, yeas 45, nays 0.
5/2/2026SenateDeferred.
5/2/2026SenateAmendment S-5251 filed, lost.
5/2/2026SenateAmendment S-5015 withdrawn.
5/2/2026SenatePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
3/26/2026SenatePlaced on calendar.
2/18/2026legislatureAmendment S-5015 filed.
2/18/2026SenateCommittee report, recommending amendment and passage.
2/18/2026SenateSubcommittee recommends passage.
2/5/2026legislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 02/04/2026 4:30PM Room 217 Conference Room.
2/2/2026legislatureSubcommittee: Westrich, Blake, and Evans.
1/28/2026SenateReferred to Judiciary.
1/14/2026Senate* * * * * END OF 2025 ACTIONS * * * * *
12/31/2025legislatureExplanation of vote.
5/20/2025HouseNOBA: House Floor
5/13/2025HouseRead first time, referred to Appropriations.
5/12/2025SenateMessage from House.
5/12/2025SenateImmediate message.
5/12/2025HousePassed House, yeas 91, nays 0.
5/12/2025HouseAmendment H-1299 filed, adopted.
5/12/2025House
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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