Sign in

Back to the bill

90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 620: 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, and providing civil penalties

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

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.

Sponsors

Education committee

Cost

No fiscal note

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. March 3, 2023Filed in the House

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF620