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STATE OF IOWA
KIM REYNOLDS
GOVERNOR
May 15,2026
The Honorable Paul Pate
Secretary of State of Iowa
State Capitol
Des Moines, Iowa 50319
Dear Mr. Secretaiy,
I hereby transmit:
House File 1036, 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.
The above House File is hereby approved on this date.
Sinceifly,
Kim R^iholds
Govemor of Iowa
cc: Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House
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House Pile 1036
AN ACT
RELATING TO HUMAN TRAFFICKING, INCLUDING SCREENING CHILDREN,
CIVIL STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS, AN ANNUAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING
AND REPORT, DEPOSITIONS OP VICTIMS, RESTITUTION, RESTORATIVE
FACILITIES AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES, AND INVESTIGATION AND
PROSECUTION, AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE DATE PROVISIONS,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA;
Section 1. Section 80.45, subsection 3, Code 2025, is
amended by adding the following new paragraph:
NEW PARAGRAPH, i. Hold an annual meeting of stakeholders to
develop legislative proposals to combat human trafficking, and
submit a report, by December 15, 2025, and annually thereafter
for a period of five years ending with the submission of
the report in 2030, to the governor and general assembly.
Participants shall include the following:
(1) A representative of the department of public safety.
(2) A representative of the office to combat human
trafficking.
(3) A representative of the attorney general's office.
(4) A representative of the department of health and human
services.
(5) A representative of juvenile court services.
(6) A chief of police or head law enforcement official of a
city in this state.
(7) A county sheriff.
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(8) A county attorney who serves on a child protection
assistance team under section 915.35, subsection 4, paragraph
a .
(9) A public defender or criminal law attorney with
experience working on human trafficking cases.
(10) A member of the public, or the person's legal
representative, who is a former human trafficking victim.
(11) A representative from the Iowa network against human
trafficking.
(12) A representative from a nonprofit organization whose
primary focus is services for human trafficking survivors.
(13) A representative from state court administration with
expertise in child welfare law.
Sec. 2. Section 232.2, Code 2025, is amended by adding the
following new subsection:
NEW SUBSECTION. 7A. '^Commercial sexual exploitation" refers
to a range of crimes and activities involving the sexual abuse
or exploitation of a child for the financial benefit of any
person or in exchange for anything of value including monetary
and nonmonetary benefits given or received by any person.
Sec. 3. Section 232.28, subsection 2, Code 2025, is amended
to read as follows:
2. The court or its designee shall refer the complaint
to an intake officer who shall consult with law enforcement
authorities having knowledge of the facts and conduct a
preliminary inquiry to determine what action should be taken.
b. The court or its designee shall order every complaint to
be reviewed using a standardized human trafficking indicator
list. The court or its designee may order the child subject to
the complaint with the presence of an indicator to be screened
for commercial sexual exploitation using a standardized,
evidence-based, trauma-informed screening tool.
Sec. 4. Section 232.71B, subsection 1, paragraph a,
unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as
follows:
If the department determines a report constitutes a child
abuse allegation, the department shall promptly have the child
subject to the child abuse allegation screened for commercial
sexual exploitation using a standardized, evidence-based.
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trauma-informed screening tool, and shall commence either a
child abuse assessment within twenty-four hours of receiving
the report or a family assessment within seventy-two hours of
receiving the report.
Sec. 5. Section 614.8, subsection 2, Code 2025, is amended
to read as follows:
2. Except as provided in section 614.1, subsection 9, or
section 614.8A, the times limited for actions in this chapter,
or chapter 216, 659A, 669, or 670, except those brought for
penalties and forfeitures, are extended in favor of minors,
so that they shall have one year five years from and after
attainment of majority within which to file a complaint
pursuant to chapter 216, to make a claim pursuant to chapter
669, or to otherwise commence an action.
Sec. 6. Section 614.8A, Code 2025, is amended to read as
follows:
614.8A Damagoa Commencement of action for child or minor
sexual abuse or human trafficking — time limitation.
1. Notwithstanding section 614.8, subsection 2, and the
times limited for actions in this chapter, the time to file
an action related to sexual abuse or human trafficking that
occurred when the injured person was a minor is extended to
five years beyond the minor's attainment of eighteen years of
age.
2. Aft In addition to the extension of the time provided in
subsection 1, an action for damages for injury suffered as a
result of sexual abuse which or human trafficking that occurred
when the injured person was a child, but not discovered until
after the injured person is of the age of majority, shall
be brought within four five years from the time of discovery
by the injured party of both the injury and the causal
relationship between the injury and the sexual abuse or human
trafficking.
Sec. 7. Section 710A.1, subsection 4, paragraph a,
unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2025, is amended to read as
follows:
^Human trafficking'' means participating in a venture to
recruit, harbor, transport, supply provisions, or obtain
recruiting, harboring, transporting, supplying provisions to.
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obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting a person for any of the
following purposes:
Sec. 8. Section 725.1, subsection 1, paragraph b. Code 2025,
is amended to read as follows:
b. If the person who sells or offers for sale the person's
services as a partner in a sex act is under the age of eighteen,
the county attorney may elect, in lieu of filing a petition
alleging that the person has committed a delinquent act, ^
refer that person that the person shall not be arrested,
charged, or prosecuted for an offense under this section, but
instead may be taken into temporary custody under section
232.78 or 232.79 or shall be referred to the department of
health and human services for the possible filing of a petition
alleging that the person is a child in need of assistance.
Sec. 9. Section 910.1, subsections 1 and 2, Code 2025, are
amended to read as follows:
1. ^Category restitution" means fines, penalties, the
payment of crime victim compensation program reimbursements,
and surcharges.
2. '^Category restitution" means the contribution of
funds to a local anticrime organization which that provided
assistance to law enforcement in an offender's case, the
payment of crime victim compensation program reimbursements,
payment of restitution to public agencies pursuant to
section 321J.2, subsection 13, paragraph ^b"t court costs,
court-appointed attorney fees ordered pursuant to section
815.9, including the expense of a public defender, and payment
to the medical assistance program pursuant to chapter 249A for
expenditures paid on behalf of the victim resulting from the
offender's criminal activities including investigative costs
incurred by the Medicaid fraud control unit pursuant to section
249A.50.
Sec. 10. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES —
RESTORATION FACILITIES. The department of health and human
services shall develop a plan in consultation with nonprofit
service providers who provide restoration services to
victims of human trafficking to increase the availability of
restoration facilities and protective services available to
juvenile victims of human trafficking, including juvenile
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victims who are not, at the time of victimization, either
a child in need of assistance or otherwise involved in
the juvenile court system. The department shall consider
developing a network with other states to provide housing
outside of the state for victims at risk of returning to the
person involved in the victim's trafficking. The department of
health and human services shall present a report detailing the
plan to the governor and the general assembly by December 15,
2025.
Sec. 11. EFFECTIVE DATE. The following takes effect July
1, 2026;
The section of this Act amending section 910.1.
PAT GRASSI
Speaker of 'the House
AMY SIN(
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 1036, Ninety-first General Assembly.
Approved
^N NELSON
Cfiief Clerk fl^the House
, 2026
KIM R^j^OLDS
Governor