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SF 2071Died when the session ended · January 19, 2022

Relating to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools

Topics:K–12 education

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 19, 2022
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 24, 2022
  3. Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  4. Next: Passes the Senate
  5. Next: House committee
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

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’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Public and private schools would be required to teach certain health topics to students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. Younger students in grades K-6 would learn about body parts, empathy, and respecting physical boundaries. Older students would receive instruction on topics like sexual consent, healthy relationships, and how to prevent sexual assault.1

Read the official explanation

This bill relates to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school districts and accredited nonpublic schools. The bill requires that the curriculum taught in kindergarten and grades one through six in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include instruction in identifying parts of the body. The bill also requires that the curriculum taught in kindergarten and grades one through six in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include age-appropriate and research-based information regarding the importance of empathy and how to establish and respect physical boundaries. The bill requires that the human growth and development curriculum taught in grades and and the health curriculum taught in grades through in school districts and accredited nonpublic schools include age-appropriate and research-based information regarding how to give proper sexual consent, how to recognize proper sexual consent, how to identify sexually predatory behavior, the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy sexual relationships, and how to prevent sexual assault. The bill defines “age-appropriate” and “research-based”.

Full bill text2

Senate subcommittee

Named January 24, 2022. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§256.11

How the Code works3

Lobbying

7 for · 0 against · 4 undecided · Who →

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