89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2037: Prohibiting administrators from permitting the teaching of certain specified concepts in school districts

Died when the session ended · The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill prohibits administrators from permitting the teaching of certain specified concepts in school districts. The bill defines “administrator” as a person who is licensed to coordinate, supervise, or direct an educational program or the activities of other practitioners. The bill prohibits an administrator from permitting race or sex scapegoating, race or sex stereotyping, or specific defined concepts from being taught in any school that the administrator supervises or directs. In the case of an administrator’s first violation of the bill’s provisions, the bill requires the school district to provide the administrator with written notice of the violation, provide the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the school with written notice of the violation, and provide the department of education and board of educational examiners with notice of the violation.

Cost

No fiscal note

Senate subcommittee · named January 24, 2022

Sen. Tim Goodwin (R)
Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov
Sen. Amy Sinclair (R) · amy.sinclair@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 0 for, 11 against

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; IA Mental Health Planning Council; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa School Mental Health Alliance; Iowa State Education Association; One Iowa; One Iowa Action; Please Pass the Love; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

January 13, 2022Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
January 24, 2022Senate subcommittee named: Goodwin, Quirmbach and Sinclair