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Requiring schools to establish and offer a junior fire fighter program to high school students
Sponsored by Rep. Charley Thomson (R)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeMarch 3, 2025
- Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2026 session adjourned on May 3, 2026, 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 Iowa schools must now offer a junior firefighter program to students in grades K-12. This program helps students learn about emergency services and can be taught as an extracurricular activity or part of a career class. Schools can run these programs themselves or use lessons from national organizations.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to offer to students enrolled in grades through a junior fighter program that allows students to learn more about the work performed by fire fighters and other emergency services providers in a safe and controlled environment, provides students with valuable life skills, fosters relationships between students and fire fighters and other emergency services providers, and promotes student participation in the fire services and other emergency services fields after graduation. Schools are allowed to offer the junior fire fighter program as an extracurricular activity or as part of the human services component of the career and technical education curriculum. Additionally, schools are allowed to establish the program directly or to partner with or use the curriculum of a national organization that provides a similar program.3.16.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.
House subcommittee
Named March 3, 2025. On March 5, 2025 it recommended passage.
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