HSB 608: Relating to the inclusion of the internet address for the your life Iowa program or successor program on public school student identification cards and including applicability provisions

What it does

Current law requires public schools to include on either side of identification cards issued to students in grades through the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers, and authorizes a public school that issues identification cards to students in grades and to do so as well. _____ This bill requires public schools that issue physical or electronic student identification cards to students in grades through to include the your life Iowa crisis hotline telephone and text numbers and the internet address for your life Iowa on physical identification cards, and requires that the internet address be provided through a link for electronic identification cards.

House subcommittee · named January 22, 2026

• Rep. Jeff Shipley (R) · jeff.shipley@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Barb Kniff McCulla (R) · barb.kniffmcculla@legis.iowa.gov
• Rep. Mary Lee Madison (D) · mary.madison@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 15 for, 0 against

For: Blank Childrens Hospital; Iowa ACEs 360; Iowa Association of School Boards; Iowa Mental Health Advocacy; Iowa School Counselors Association; Iowa School Nurses Organization; Iowa School Psychologists Association; Iowa School Social Workers Association; Iowa State Education Association; One Iowa; One Iowa Action; Rural School Advocates of Iowa; and 3 more

In plain words

1. January 22, 2026Filed in the House and sent to the Education committee
2. January 22, 2026House subcommittee named: Shipley, Kniff McCulla and Madison
3. February 18, 2026Subcommittee recommended passing it