Senate File 2296     
                             BY  COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY

                             (SUCCESSOR TO SSB
                                 3154)
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                                  A BILL FOR
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                                      Senate File 2296

                            AN ACT
RELATING TO THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF SOLICITATION TO COMMIT
   MURDER AND PROVIDING A PENALTY.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
   Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  707.3A  Solicitation to commit
murder.
   1.  A person who commands, entreats, or otherwise attempts to
persuade another to commit murder as defined in section 707.1,
with the intent that such act be done and under circumstances
which corroborate that intent by clear and convincing evidence,
solicits another to commit that murder.
   2.  Renunciation, as provided for in section 705.2, is a
defense to a prosecution for solicitation under this section.
   3.  A person who solicits another to commit murder commits a
class "C" felony.


                                                            
                              JOHN P. KIBBIE
                              President of the Senate


                                                            
                              KRAIG PAULSEN
                              Speaker of the House
   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 2296, Eighty=fourth General Assembly.


                                                            
                              MICHAEL E. MARSHALL
                              Secretary of the Senate
Approved                , 2012


                                                            
                              TERRY E. BRANSTAD
                              Governor

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