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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 15, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Done: House committeeFebruary 11, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 391
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 391 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 391 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Schools in Iowa would be required to add lessons about pregnancy and how a baby grows inside the womb to their health and science classes for students in grades 6 through 12. These lessons must include a video showing how vital organs develop and an animation that shows every stage of human development from fertilization until birth.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 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 and 8, and the health curriculum in grades 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, comparable to the meet baby Olivia video developed by live action, 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.
Changed since by amendments H-1237, H-1236, S-3005; see Amendments.
House subcommittee
Named January 15, 2025. On January 30, 2025 it recommended passage.
Three legislators hear a bill first and recommend what the committee should do; it’s the best time to weigh in. How to take part
4 written public comments to its subcommittee: January 30, 2025 (3), January 23, 2025 (1) · on the Legislature’s site
Iowa Code it changes
Lobbying
12 for · 20 against · 8 undecided · Who →
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Tried before
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 titlePassed a chamber
Matched by wording or an identical title.