SF 2024: Relating to instruction relating to gender identity in the curriculum provided to students enrolled in elementary education programs

What it does

This bill establishes that the curriculum utilized by a school district or accredited nonpublic school in accordance with the state’s educational standards for elementary students shall not include instruction relating to gender identity. However, the prohibition does not apply to the curriculum provided to a student enrolled in grades one through six if the school district or accredited nonpublic school obtains the prior written consent of the student’s parent or guardian. If a school does not obtain a parent’s or guardian’s written consent, the student may opt out of instruction relating to gender identity. Gender identity, for purposes of the bill, means a gender-related identity of a person, regardless of the person’s assigned sex at birth.

Senate subcommittee · named January 24, 2022

• Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Ken Rozenboom (R) · ken.rozenboom@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 22 against

For: Concerned Women For America of Iowa; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Episcopal Diocese of Iowa; Human Rights Campaign; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa School Counselors Association; and 10 more

In plain words

1. January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
2. January 24, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Quirmbach and Rozenboom