HF 367: Prohibiting school districts and charter schools from taking disciplinary action against employees, contractors, or students for the use of legal names or for the failure to use personal pronouns in official communications

What it does

This bill prohibits school districts and charter schools from taking disciplinary action against employees, contractors, or students for the use of legal names or for the failure to use personal pronouns in official communications. The bill prohibits the board of directors of school districts and the governing boards of charter schools from taking any disciplinary action against an employee, contractor, or student for addressing other employees, contractors, or students using the employee’s, contractor’s, or student’s legal name.

House subcommittee · named February 22, 2023

• Rep. Henry Stone (R) · henry.stone@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Heather Matson (D) · heather.matson@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Thomas Jay Moore (R) · tom.moore@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 5 for, 27 against

For: Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; Protect My Innocence; The Family Leader; The Family Leader Foundation; VALOR Iowa

Against: AFSCME Iowa Council 61; American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy; American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa (ACLU-IA); Common Good Iowa; Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Affiliate of the American College of Nurse-Midwives; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners; Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault; Iowa Environmental Council; Iowa Mental Health Counselors Association; and 15 more

In plain words

1. February 20, 2023Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. February 22, 2023House subcommittee named: Stone, Matson, Moore and T
3. February 27, 2023Subcommittee recommended passing it
4. March 1, 2023Approved by the House committee
5. March 3, 2023Approved by the House committee, and given a new number: HF 620