Bills › 90th General Assembly
HSB 568
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2024
- Done: House committeeFebruary 8, 2024
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 2487
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 2487 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 2487 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to mandatory reporting to the board of educational examiners of licensed school employees who engage in grooming behavior toward students of the abuse of students. _____ district or area education agency, the superintendent of a school district, the chief administrator of an area education agency, and the authorities in charge of an accredited nonpublic school, to report to the board of educational examiners any instance of disciplinary action taken against a licensed school employee for conduct constituting soliciting, encouraging, or consummating a romantic or otherwise inappropriate relationship with a student.
Read the full explanation
The bill adds that such a report is also required to be made for conduct that constitutes grooming behavior toward a student or for conduct that constitutes abusing a student. The bill defines “grooming behavior” as engaging in a pattern of flirtatious behavior, making any effort to gain unreasonable access to, or time alone with any student with no discernible educational purpose, engaging in any behavior that can reasonably be construed as involving an inappropriate, overly personal, or intimate relationship with or conduct toward or focus on a student, and engaging in any other individualized, special treatment not in compliance with generally accepted educational practices.160.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Changed since by amendments S-5115, H-8185, H-8178; see Amendments. Full bill text · What changed before it passed
House subcommittee
Named January 17, 2024. On January 24, 2024 it recommended passage. Vote Total: 2-0.
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Iowa Code it changes
Amends§256.160
Read from the bill as introduced. Each links to every bill touching that chapter of the Iowa Code. How the Code works
Lobbying
6 for · 1 against · 14 undecided · Who →
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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.
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