Bills › 91st General Assembly
Relating to surveys administered to students or school employees
Sponsored by Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D)
Topics:K–12 educationHealth care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 5, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 11, 2025
- Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: House committeeFunnel: by March 20, 2026
- Next: Passes the House
- 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, including charter and private schools, must now help the state run the Iowa youth survey for students in grades 6, 8, and 11. These schools will also report the survey results to the state departments of education and health and human services. This change removes the current rule that requires parents to give written permission before their children can participate in certain surveys.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to surveys administered to students or school employees. The bill requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to assist the department of health and human services in the administration of the Iowa youth survey, which is administered every two years to students enrolled in grades 6, 8, and 11, and contains questions related to student health behaviors and experiences. Schools are required to report the results of the Iowa youth survey to the department of education and the department of health and human services. 79 provides that school districts must receive the prior written consent of a student’s parent or guardian before requiring a student to take part in any survey, analysis, activity, or evaluation that reveals information concerning certain specified subjects.79 also prohibits an employee of a school district, or a contractor engaged by a school district, from answering any question pertaining to any particular student enrolled in the school district in any survey related to the social or emotional abilities, competencies, or characteristics of the student, unless the board of directors of the school district satisfies certain specified requirements.79.79.
Senate subcommittee
Named February 11, 2025. It hasn’t reported yet.
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