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STATE OF IOWA
KIM REYNOLDS
GOVERNOR
May 19,2026
The Honoi-able Paul Pate
Secretary of State of Iowa
State Capitol
DesMoines, Iowa 50319
Dear Mr. Secretary,
I hereby transmit:
House File 2794, an Act establishing a sexual assault forensic examination center grant
program and trust fund.
The above House File is hereby approved on this date.
Sm^rely,
KA Reynolds
Gov^or of low
cc: Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House
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House File 2794
AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A SEXUAL ASSAULT FORENSIC EXAMINATION CENTER GRANT
PROGRAM AND TRUST FUND,
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP THE STATE OP IOWA:
Section 1. NEW SECTION. 915.47 Sexual assault forensic
examination center grant program — fund.
1. The terms defined in section 915.46 shall have the same
meaning when used in this section.
2. A sexual assault forensic examination center grant
program is established in the department of justice.
Contingent upon funding, the attorney general shall contract
with an eligible nonprofit organization to operate and maintain
sexual assault forensic examination centers in this state.
3. A nonprofit organization must comply with all of the
following to be eligible for a contract under this section:
a. Be a nonprofit organization incorporated in this state
pursuant to chapter 504 that is not owned, controlled, or
affiliated with any hospital, health system, or inpatient
medical facility.
b. Employ or otherwise retain services from sexual assault
nurse examiners.
Maintain, or be in the process of establishing, one or
more treatment facilities in this state that are primarily
dedicated to providing a diverse range of services to sexual
assault survivors, including but not limited to medical
forensic services.
House File 2794, p. 2
d. Provide services for sexual assault survivors, including
providing sexual assault care and related trainings, as the
overall primary purpose of the organization.
4. The contracting nonprofit organization shall do all of
the following:
a. Provide services, including medical forensic services,
to sexual assault survivors including adults, persons with
disabilities, rural lowans, and other underserved populations.
b. Offer or facilitate trainings to law enforcement
officers, prosecuting attorneys, health care professionals, and
members of the public regarding sexual assault services and
sexual assault prevention.
c. Provide a cooperative team approach regarding sexual
assault services, deliver accessible services to sexual assault
survivors, and establish an approach that emphasizes the best
interests of the sexual assault survivor and that provides
investigation, assessment, and rehabilitative services.
d. Involve or consult with persons from various professional
disciplines who have training and expertise in addressing
special types of sexual assault as necessary to address serious
cases of sexual assault such as those involving intimate
partner violence, dating violence, domestic violence, incest,
human trafficking, and drug-facilitated sexual assault. These
persons may include but are not limited to physicians and other
health care professionals, law enforcement, mental health
professionals, social workers, child protection workers,
attorneys, juvenile court officers, public health workers,
educators, and advocates.
e. Submit an annual report to the attorney general and the
general assembly no later than January 15 of each calendar
year describing, in aggregated and anonymized form, the types
of services offered, total number of unduplicated clients
served, demographic breakdown of clients served including age,
gender, and county of residence, number of individuals by
county trained, referrals made to other agencies or services,
description of service gaps identified during the reporting
period, and barriers to service access identified.
5. The requirements in subsection 4 are not intended
to restrict or otherwise limit the contracting nonprofit
House File 2794, p. 3
organization from seeking funding or reimbursement from other
sources.
6. A sexual assault forensic examination center grant
program trust fund is created in the state treasury under
the control of the department of justice. The department of
justice may accept gifts, grants, bequests, and other private
contributions, as well as state or federal moneys, for deposit
in the fund. All moneys deposited in the trust fund are
appropriated and made available to the department of justice
to be used for the purposes meeting the requirements of this
section and to provide grants to sexual assault forensic
examination centers in this state. Notwithstanding section
12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys in the fund
shall be credited to the fund.
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PAT GRASSLeW AMY SINQJ^IR
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 2794, Ninety-first General Assembly.
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M^HAN NELSON
Chief Clerk^f the House
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor