DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- The Iowa Senate has acted to change a law that was cited in allowing a 17-year-old girl to strip onstage at a club in 2007.
It's against existing Iowa law for anyone under the age of 18 to perform a live act intended to cause sexual arousal, but the law does not apply to artistic or theatrical performances.
A judge in Fremont County ruled in 2008 that the nude dance at the club in Hamburg didn't violate the law, because prosecutors failed to prove that the club wasn't a theater.
Iowa Court of Appeals dismissed the state's request for a review last month.
As a result, the Iowa Senate voted Monday to change the law to remove the theater exemption.
The measure now goes to the Iowa House.
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