91st General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2116: Relating to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school districts

Died when the session ended · The General Assembly adjourned on October 2, 2026. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school districts.74(2) requires the superintendent of each school district to ensure that any curriculum or mandatory staff or student training provided by an employee or by a contractor does not teach, advocate, encourage, promote, or act upon specific stereotyping and scapegoating toward others on the basis of demographic group membership or identity.74(3) requires school district diversity and inclusion efforts to discourage students from discriminating against another by political ideology or any characteristic protected under federal law or applicable state law.

Cost

No fiscal note

House subcommittee · named January 21, 2026

Rep. Samantha Fett (R) · samantha.fett@legis.iowa.gov
Rep. Helena Hayes (R) · helena.hayes@legis.iowa.gov
Rep. Monica Kurth (D) · monica.kurth@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 4 for, 14 against

For: Inspired Life; Iowa Baptists For Biblical Values; Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition; VALOR Iowa

Against: Interfaith Alliance of Iowa Action Fund; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Atheists and Freethinkers; Iowa Conference of the United Methodist Church; Iowa Integrated Health Planning and Advisory Council; Iowa Safe Schools; Iowa State Education Association; League of Women Voters of Iowa; NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Iowa-Nebraska; One Iowa; One Iowa Action; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; and 2 more

In plain words

January 21, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
January 21, 2026House subcommittee named: Fett, Hayes and Kurth