House File 825 - Enrolled
House File 825
AN ACT
RELATING TO CONSENT AGREEMENTS FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE AND SEXUAL
ABUSE PROTECTIVE ORDERS.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 236.5, subsection 1, paragraph b,
2 unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 The court may grant a protective order or approve a consent
5 agreement which may contain but is not limited to any of the
6 following provisions:
7 Sec. 2. Section 236.5, Code 2021, is amended by adding the
8 following new subsection:
9 NEW SUBSECTION. 1A. The court may approve a consent
10 agreement which may contain but is not limited to any of the
11 provisions specified in subsection 1, paragraph “b”, without a
12 finding the defendant has engaged in domestic abuse.
13 Sec. 3. Section 236A.7, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph
14 1, Code 2021, is amended to read as follows:
15 Upon a finding that the defendant has engaged in sexual
16 abuse, the court may grant a protective order or approve a
17 consent agreement which may contain but is not limited to any
18 of the following provisions:
19 Sec. 4. Section 236A.7, Code 2021, is amended by adding the
20 following new subsection:
21 NEW SUBSECTION. 1A. The court may approve a consent
22 agreement without a finding that the defendant has engaged in
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23 sexual abuse, which may contain but is not limited to any of
24 the provisions specified in subsection 1.
______________________________ ______________________________
PAT GRASSLEY JAKE CHAPMAN
Speaker of the House President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 825, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
______________________________
MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House
Approved _______________, 2022 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 236.5, 236A.7
Enrolled: 236.5, 236A.7