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SF 66Died when the session ended · January 12, 2023

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 12, 2023
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 17, 2023
  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 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, 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 and development topics to students in kindergarten through sixth grade. These lessons must include how to identify body parts and how to respect physical boundaries and empathy. For older students in grades seven through twelve, the curriculum must also cover 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. 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 17, 2023. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§256.11

How the Code works3

Lobbying

6 for · 0 against · 5 undecided · Who →

Family tree

Earlier and later bills are matched by wording or an identical title.

Tried before

This idea has been filed in an earlier General Assembly. None got through a chamber.

  • SF 2071 Relating to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school dis…
    89th General Assembly · In committee · same title
    Cleared committee
  • HF 2098 Relating to the health and human growth and development instruction provided by school dis…
    89th General Assembly · In committee · nearly identical
    Cleared committee

Matched by wording or an identical title.