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Incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curriculum provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades one through twelve
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 11, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 15, 2024
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2617
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 2617 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2617 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Schools in Iowa would be required to add lessons about pregnancy and how a baby grows inside the womb to their health and science classes for students in grades 6 through 12. These lessons must include a video showing how vital organs develop and an animation that shows every stage of human development from fertilization until birth.1
Read the official explanation
This bill incorporates provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curriculum provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades through 12. The bill requires that the human growth and development curriculum provided by school districts, nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in grades through 8, and the health curriculum in grades through 12, include instruction regarding human biology related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb. The bill also requires that such curriculum include a video, at least three minutes in duration, showing the development of the brain, heart, sex organs, and other vital organs in early fetal development, and a rendering or animation, comparable to the meet baby Olivia video developed by live action, showing the process of fertilization and every stage of human development inside the uterus, noting significant markers in cell growth and organ development for every significant marker of pregnancy until birth.
House subcommittee
Named January 23, 2024. On January 30, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-1.
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
38 written public comments to its subcommittee: March 12, 2024 (27), February 7, 2024 (2), January 30, 2024 (9) · on the Legislature’s site
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
8 for · 17 against · 6 undecided · Who →
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- HF 391 Incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth …91st General Assembly · WithdrawnNearly identical
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