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Requiring that public secondary and postsecondary education institutions include contact information for the your life Iowa crisis program and the national suicide prevention line on student identification cards and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 educationHigher educationMental health & addiction
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2020
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 5, 2020
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
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’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill requires public schools that educate students in grades through 12, regents institutions, and community colleges to include on either side of identification cards issued to students the telephone and text numbers for your life Iowa crisis, a crisis support program administered by the department of public health, and the national suicide prevention line telephone number. The bill strongly encourages accredited nonpublic schools and nonpublic postsecondary institutions whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the college student aid commission to comply with the provisions of the bill.
Read the full explanation
The bill applies to student identification cards issued on or after the effective date of the bill. A school, institution, or community college that has a supply of unused student identification cards shall use that supply prior to complying with the requirements of the bill relating to student identification cards.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 5, 2020. It hasn’t reported yet.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part