Incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curriculum provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades seven through twelve

Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 16, 2025
Skipped: SubcommitteeSkipped
Done: House committeeApril 3, 2025
Done: Passes the HouseApril 17, 202560–31
Skipped: Senate committeeSkipped
Done: Passes the SenateFebruary 18, 202531–13
Done: To the GovernorMay 19, 2025
Done: Signed into lawJune 6, 2025

SF 175 became law → The same legislation passed as SF 175, so this version was set aside. Go to SF 175 What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

AI summary Students in grades 7 through 12 at public, charter, and certain private schools would learn about pregnancy and how babies grow in the womb. The new lessons must include a video showing how a baby's organs develop and an animation of the entire process from fertilization until birth. These changes affect the health and human growth classes taught in these schools.¹

Read the official explanation

This bill incorporates provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curriculum provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades 7 through 12. The bill requires that the human growth and development curriculum provided by school districts, nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in grades 7 and 8, and the health curriculum in grades 9 through 12, include instruction regarding human biology related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb. The bill also requires that such curriculum include a video, at least three minutes in duration, showing the development of the brain, heart, sex organs, and other vital organs in early fetal development, and a rendering or animation showing the process of fertilization and every stage of human development inside the uterus, noting significant markers in cell growth and organ development for every significant marker of pregnancy until birth.

Why it matters. Students in grades 6 through 12 at school districts, charter schools, innovation zone schools, and accredited nonpublic schools would receive new instruction on human biology related to pregnancy and fetal development. This curriculum must include a video showing the development of vital organs and an animation depicting the process of fertilization and every stage of development inside the uterus until birth.²

Changed since by amendments H-1237, H-1236, S-3005; see Amendments.

Full bill text · What changed before it passed³

4 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 30, 2025 (3), January 23, 2025 (1) · on the Legislature’s site

Iowa Code it changes

Amends§256.11 §256E.7 §256F.4

How the Code works⁴

Lobbying

12 for · 20 against · 8 undecided · Who →

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Tried before

HF 2617Passed a chamber90th GA

Study bill

HSB 34Renumbered SSB 1028Cleared committee

91st General Assembly

HF 76Cleared committeeHouse companion SF 175Became lawSenate companion HF 391Didn’t advancefrom HSB 34

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 became law, though one got through a chamber.

HF 2617 Incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth …
90th General Assembly · Passed House · same title
Passed a chamber

Matched by wording or an identical title.