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IA HF201
Bill
Status
2/3/2025
Primary Sponsor
Samantha Fett
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AI Summary
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Amends Iowa Code Section 708.7 to make it harassment when a person purposefully disseminates, publishes, distributes, or posts another person's personal information without consent and without legitimate purpose, with intent to threaten, intimidate, annoy, or alarm the victim
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Includes sharing personal information with intent to encourage third parties to threaten, intimidate, annoy, or alarm the targeted person
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Defines "personal information" broadly to include home address, phone number, email address, social media profile, place of employment, photos or film depictions, and contact information of the person's family
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Classifies violations as harassment in the first degree, an aggravated misdemeanor punishable by up to two years confinement and fines ranging from $855 to $8,540
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to harassment by the dissemination, publication, distribution, or posting of personal information, and making penalties applicable.(See HF 849.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 849.
3/7/2025