88th General Assembly · Iowa Funnel one-pager · Thursday, November 12, 2026
HF 494: Requiring Iowa’s public and private postsecondary institutions to provide all newly admitted students with a seminar relating to certain resources available to students
Died when the session ended · The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.
What it does
This bill requires the boards of directors of community colleges and the state board of regents to direct their community colleges and universities, and requires accredited private institutions, to develop and provide to all newly admitted students a noncredit seminar on resources offered by the institution, including but not limited to mental health assistance, suicide prevention, dating violence and information relating to the effects of dating violence, and binge drinking and information relating to the effects of binge drinking.
Sponsors
Not listed
Cost
No fiscal note
House subcommittee · named February 27, 2019
- Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R) · skyler.wheeler@legis.iowa.gov
- Rep. Mary Ann Hanusa (R)
- Rep. R. Smith
In plain words
- February 21, 2019Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
- February 27, 2019House subcommittee named: Wheeler, Hanusa and R. Smith
From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Iowa Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Thursday, November 12, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/88/HF494