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| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF8 | Eliminates references to the Iowa Core Curriculum. Directs the State BOE to adopt standards on HS graduation, academics and related matters. Makes corresponding changes. | Zaun | 1/11/23 |
| SF9 | Allows the School Budget Review Committee to approve supplemental aid to schools if 35% of the students in the district are open enrolled. Excludes on-line open enrollment. Includes other requirements. | Zaun | 1/11/23 |
| SF10 | Allows a city or cities to establish a land redevelopment trust to rehabilitate blighted/tax delinquent and other similar properties. Includes procedures for the sale of such property. Makes conforming changes. | Lofgren & others | 1/9/23 |
| SF12 | Limits the administration costs for schools to 5% of the budget. | Zaun | 1/11/23 |
| SF17 | Prohibits courts from ordering support payments for post-secondary education in divorce cases. | Green | 1/9/23 |
| SF23 | Requires primary elections for city and school elections. Requires parties to hold conventions to nominate candidates. | Zaun | 1/11/23 |
| SF24 | Allows a minor with a special school permit to drive up to 50 miles for an extracurricular activity instead of the current limits. | Dawson | 1/11/23 |
| SF29 | Strikes requirements that a sending and receiving district agree to arrangements for transportation for an open-enrolled student. | Green | 1/11/23 |
| SF33 | Requires state universities and community colleges to adopt rules to give any honorably discharged navy veteran who served on a ship named after Iowa to be resident tuition rates. | Dawson | 1/11/23 |
| SF38 | Requires the DOE to convene a work group to study educational achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups. Requires a report and recommendations by December 2023. | J Taylor | 1/11/23 |
| SF39 | Requires the DOE and the DHS to convene a work group to study impact of technology on students. Requires a report and recommendations by December 2023. | J Taylor | 1/11/23 |
| SF49 | Sets the time for school bond elections as the same time as the general election date, except for bonds related to natural disasters. | Salmon | 1/12/23 |
| SF52 | Requires the DHHS to work with the DOE to identify funding sources to expand evidence-based home visiting services to increase healthy outcomes for pregnancies, positive birth outcomes and healthy infant growth. Requires that stakeholders be consulted and for DHHS to seek any needed federal Medicaid waivers. | Petersen & others | 1/12/23 |
| SF53 | Phases in an increase for the amount of the supplemental funding for schools to use for drop-out prevention programs to 5% by 2027. Effective on enactment. | Cournoyer | 1/12/23 |
| SF58 | Requires the state universities and community colleges, including employees and faculty, to make reasonable accommodations to students who are pregnant or who have recently given birth. Defines reasonable accommodations and give examples. Requires the AG to maintain a system for receiving and investigating complaints and requires founded complaints to be forwarded to the US DOE. Includes additional requirements. | J. Taylor | 1/12/23 |
| SF66 | Adds requirements for human growth (sex education) curriculum. Requires that the K-6 curriculum include age-appropriate evidence-based information on empathy and respecting boundaries, and on how to identify body parts. Requires 7-12 instruction include age-appropriate evidence-based information on how give consent, how to recognize predatory behavior and how to prevent assaults and the difference between healthy and unhealthy relationships. | Petersen & others | 1/13/23 |
| SF74 | Requires that period products be available at no cost in specified state and school buildings. | Petersen & others | 1/13/23 |
| SF81 | Prohibits school contractors or teachers from offering curriculum or training that deals with certain defined concepts related to racism/scapegoating. Requires the BEE to deny licensing to applicants who have violated these provisions. Authorizes parents or employees to bring civil actions for violations. Awards attorney fees to prevailing parents and employees and requires the court to impose a civil penalty between $10,000 and $50,000 for violations. Includes additional requirements for school administrators to make sure that materials used at the school do not include specific defined concepts. Exempts the bill from the mandate funding requirements. | Salmon | 1/18/23 |
| SF83 | Prohibits schools and charter schools from including any instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation in K-3 education. | J. Taylor & Others | 1/18/23 |
| SF85 | Prohibits the DOE from displaying on its website survey information about emotional learning. Requires school boards and charter schools to receive written consent before allowing a student to participate in a survey that reveals political affiliations, family information or a variety of other topics related to emotional/social learning. Prohibits employees from answering related questions about such employees. | Salmon | 1/18/23 |
| SF87 | Requires that the physicals given to students before being allowed to compete in HS sports include cardiac exams. | Brown | 1/18/23 |
| SF94 (SSB1022) | ESA: Creates the Students First Act. Establishes education scholarships for K-12 students that can be used to pay private schools. Phases the scholarships in over three years, based on family income. Establishes a fund controlled by the DOE make payments into the ESA. Allows unspent money in an ESA to be retained until graduation or the student is 20. Allows the DOM to contract with a 3rd-party to manage the fund. Excludes the scholarships from the income tax. Spending: Allows funds appropriated to schools under various programs to be used for teacher salaries. | Governor Bill | 1/18/23 |
| SF96 | Doubles the fine for illegally crossing RR tracks in a quiet zone to $520. Allows the fine to be waived if the driver successfully completes a DOT-approved driver improvement course at the driver’s expense. Requires the driver to notify the clerk of courts of the intent to attend the course prior to the court date and to complete the course within 90 days of the violation to avoid the fine. | Green | 1/24/23 |
| SF114 | Requires a parent with joint custody to give 60 days’ notice to the court and to the other parent if relocating by the first parent will change the child’s school district. Requires the court to consider this a substantial change in circumstances and to schedule a hearing on the motion of a party. Gives the burden of proof that the change is in the best interest of the child to the relocating parent. Allows a court to modify the order, including awarding physical custody to the non-relocating parent or to increase visitation rights and assign the relocating parent transportation costs. | Dickey | 1/25/23 |
| SF116 | Programs: Adds requirements for skilled trades to the EDA internship program, the Iowa Youth Summer Corps Program, HS technical education requirements and the one-stop contact point for information for educators and employers. NG: Gives reporting duties to the National Guard in relation to skilled trades and its education programs. Authorizes the Adjutant General to spend unencumbered funds for skilled training programs. Aid: Establishes criteria for the College Student Aid Commission to award Teach Iowa funds to applicants teaching skilled trades. Requires institutions under the Senior Plus program to the report to the DOE on the percentage of women/minority students in the program pursuing skilled trades. UNI: Requires the STEM Initiative to include the recruitment of skilled trades teachers. STEM: Includes requirements for the Governor’s STEM Council. | Donahue | 1/26/23 |
| SF121 | Prohibits public or private high schools from spending public money on dues for athletic/extracurricular organizations that do not meet requirements to classify schools according to adjusted enrollment and past performance in the activity as of January 2024. | Driscoll | 1/25/23 |
| SF139 | Directs the State BOE to adopt rules on the use of Hebrew scripture and the Bible in an elective Social Studies course to give students knowledge on the poetry and characters of the Bible to help foster understanding of modern society. Prohibits the use of a specific translation. Requires religious neutrality. Requires the State BOE to develop guidelines for teacher preparation/continuing education. | Guth | 1/26/23 |
| SF157 (SSB1028) | Allows persons who are qualified to give behind-the-wheel driving instruction but who are not licensed teachers to administer a final field driving test. | Committee on Transportation | 1/26/23 |
| SF159 | Prohibits gender identity/sexual orientation education in schools for grades K-8. Makes definitions. Requires schools to inform parents of all invasive physical exams/health screenings that are not required by federal law. Requires the state BOE to establish standards. Requires schools to notify parents about changes in the mental health or well-being. Allows parents to allege violations of policies regarding human growth and development (sex education). Allows parents to take it to the State BOE if the violation is not fixed or to seek court relief. Establishes civil penalties against schools for violations. | Salmon | 1/26/23 |
| SF161 | Adds additional activities that a 12-grader can use as alternative activities from PE including show choir, marching band and color guard, if a parent requests and the school principal agrees. | Sinclair | 1/26/23 |
| SF167 | Makes changes related to child labor, including striking permits for child/minor child labor, striking some exceptions allowing children under 14 to engage in street work, and on work that can be performed between 14-17. Allows the Labor Commissioner to waive civil penalties. Allows the DWD or the DOE to grant exemptions for students for school-based work. Deems that businesses which offer student work-based positions are not liable for specified claims. Alcohol: Allows a 16/17 year old to serve alcohol with written permission from a parent. Driving: Strikes the distance a student lives from a school as one of the criteria when considering the necessity of the license. | Schultz | 1/30/23 |
| SF177 | Requires public and private schools to have at least one employee trained in administering seizure medications by the 2024-25 school year. Deems that a school nurse meets these requirements. Requires school personnel to be trained to recognize seizures, to be trained in first aid and to have biennial training. Sets standards for training and allows the schools and DOE to establish higher standards. Requires schools to have written permission from a parent in advance before administering seizure drugs and to collaborate with a parent on a seizure action plan. Requires schools to maintain seizure action plans and to distribute information on the plans to school personnel. Requires the DOE to develop information on seizure action plans for the guidance of schools. Includes immunity provisions for good faith actions. | Driscoll | 1/31/23 |
| SF179 | Requires public, private and charter schools to have policies to excuse students attending FFA or 4-H activities. Requires the student to make up any missed class work. | Driscoll | 1/31/23 |
| SF192 (SSB1081) | Establishes an SSA and a Categorical Growth rate of 3% for the 2023-24 school year. | Committee on Education | 2/1/23 |
| SF199 | Requires the DOE to include information on robotics in its technical education assistance to schools and for robotics to be taught in schools. Allows a HS athletic organization to sponsor robotics competitions. | Jochum | 2/2/23 |
| SF205 | Requires school boards to allow 17-year-olds to register to vote on the fourth Tuesday in September and on one other day. Requires the county auditor (commissioner) or a designee to conduct the registration. Requires schools to report on voter registration activities with the DOE. | Knox & others | 2/2/23 |
| SF246 (SF53) | Phases in an increase for the amount of the supplemental funding for schools to use for drop-out prevention programs to 5% by 2027. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF247 (SF9) | Allows the School Budget Review Committee to approve supplemental aid to schools if 35% of the students in the district are open enrolled. Excludes on-line open enrollment. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF248 (SF39) | Requires the DOE and the DHS to convene a work group to study impact of technology on students. Requires a report and recommendations by December 2023. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF249 (SSB1025) | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for doctors using the rural primary care loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a doctor who fails to fulfill service obligations. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF250 (SSB1023) | Allows recipients of computer science professional development grants to use the money in the fiscal year of the grant through to September 30. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF251 (SF12) | Limits the administration costs for schools to 5% of the budget. Defines administrative costs. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF252 (SF58) | Requires the state universities and community colleges, including employees and faculty, to make reasonable accommodations to students who are pregnant or who have recently given birth. Defines reasonable accommodations and give examples. Requires the AG to maintain a system for receiving and investigating complaints and requires founded complaints to be forwarded to the US DOE. Includes additional requirements. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF253 (SSB1024) | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for MH practitioners using the MH loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a MH practitioner who fails to fulfill service obligations. Establishes provisions for proportional payments for part-time practitioners. Effective for loan repayments on enactment. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| SF258 | Requires school boards to appoint a least one non-voting student member. Requires the student be at least grade 11. Lets the student sit in on meetings and review non-confidential information. | Donahue & others | 2/9/23 |
| SF259 | Allows a student to bring an action for exploitation by a school employee, counselor or therapist at any time. Extends the SOL for civil actions against certain sex abuse crimes against minors or persons with MI. Allows previously barred actions to be revived and allows the court to give preference to some of the revived actions. | Petersen | 2/9/23 |
| SF264 | Requires the DOE to include technical education assistance to schools on chartering technical & career education student organizations. Allows a HS athletic organization to sponsor robotics competitions. | Sinclair | 2/13/23 |
| SF268 | Requires the State Registrar of Elections (Secretary of State) to use electronic driver’s license records to register voters. Requires the DOT to submit such records to SOS. Requires county commissioners (auditors) to review the records. Allows a person to decline to be registered to vote. Establishes notification and other related requirements. Sets a standard of review. | Jochum | 2/13/23 |
| SF269 | Liability: Deems that a business which accepts a student in a work-based learning program will not be liable for negligent acts by the student or for injuries to the student or others. Credits: Deems educational units that meet math, science, financial literacy and Social Studies requirements and also meet technical and career education requirements to meet the technical and career education requirements. Grants: Establishes a grant program in the DOE for career and technical education teachers. Senior Year Plus: Requires the DOE to give administrative support to a Senior Year Plus task force. Requires a report by 9/23. | Zaun | 2/13/23 |
| SF276 | Makes the school foundation aid formula for a district equal to the difference between foundation property tax in the district and the combined foundation base for the district. Makes the minimum aid amount for a district equal to the state foundation minimum. Requires the district foundation property tax to be reduced if the sum of the state foundation aid and the district property tax exceeds the combined foundation base. Makes definitions and strikes obsolete definitions. | Rowley | 2/14/23 |
| SF296 | Requires school boards to require annual training on teacher mental health and self-identification of negative mental health symptoms for various license holders. Requires the training be evidence-based, based on best practices and done within 60 days of the start of the school year. Requires the State BOE to adopt rules on trainers. | Donahue & others | 2/15/23 |
| SF302 | Allows a receiving school, following notification to a parent, revoke an open enrollment for chronic absenteeism. Defines chronic absenteeism (missing 10% of the school days in two consecutive grading periods. | Driscoll | 2/15/23 |
| SF303 | Requires schools to offer a free breakfast and lunch to all students and establishes a standing appropriation to pay for the cost. | Weiner & others | 2/15/23 |
| SF305 | Prohibits a teacher or administrator from knowingly giving a student obscene material on school property or assigning such material. Requires schools to have at least one administrator to ensure that obscene material is kept out of the library or other areas. Requires the BEE to revoke licenses or deny applicants for violations. Authorizes civil actions by parents and allows prevailing parents to collect actual damages and a civil penalty of $20,000. Includes other related enforcement provisions. | Salmon & others | 2/15/23 |
| SF310 | Increases funding for pre-school enrollment by making the formula 100% of the actual enrollment. | Trone Garriott & others | 2/15/23 |
| SF318 (SSB1086) | Establishes an Office of Apprenticeship and an Iowa Apprenticeship Council in the DWD. Gives the Office various duties related to the registration of apprenticeships. Establishes the members of the Council, including the DWD director as an ex officio member. Other: Requires licensing authorities to grant licenses to persons who have successfully completed apprenticeship programs. Prohibits exams for apprentices that are different than the exam for other applicants. Divides training and administration responsibilities between sponsors of apprenticeship programs and employers. | Committee on Workforce | 2/16/23 |
| SF322 | Requires parents applying for Education Savings Accounts include information on household income and size, race and ethnicity, the disability status of the pupil and if the pupil has an individualized learning plan. Requires the DOE or administrator to collect and anonymize the data and report to the Legislature. Requires other information from non-public schools to be collected and added to the reports, including on school demographics, reasons for student expulsions and withdrawals, and information on tuition and fees. Effective on enactment. | Trone Garriott & others | 2/16/23 |
| SF324 (SSB1139) | Iowa Scholarships: Changes eligibility to make all foster children under age 26 eligible for scholarships. | Committee on Health and Human Services | 2/20/23 |
| SF335 | Requires K-12 to designate multi-occupant restrooms as being for one sex. Prohibits a person from using a toilet that does not correspond to the person’s biological sex. | Westrich | 2/20/23 |
| SF336 | Requires the Regent universities and community colleges to waive a portion of tuition and fees for the children of veterans with a disability rating. Makes the waiver equal to the disability rating, or in the case of the death of a service member, 100%. Requires the veteran to have enlisted in Iowa or been an Iowa resident. Requires the child to enroll by age 33 and to make adequate academic progress, and to be available for up to eight years. Requires the DVA to determine eligibility. | Shipley | 2/20/23 |
| SF343 | Requires public schools to have policies excusing the absences of a student for treatments related to autism and autism spectrum disorders. | Koelker | 2/20/23 |
| SF375 | Establishes a low-income supplemental for schools. Establishes a formula for the supplemental. | Quirmbach | 2/22/23 |
| SF376 | Makes an accredited private university (Waldorf University) that was purchased in 2010 by a for-profit school and then sold to an Iowa non-profit in December 2022 eligible for Iowa tuition grants from December 2022 to June 2023. | Quirmbach | 2/22/23 |
| SF378 | Requires public and private schools to have at least one employee trained in administering seizure medications by the 2024-25 school year. Deems that a school nurse meets these requirements. Requires school personnel to be trained to recognize seizures, to be trained in first aid and to have biennial training. Sets standards for training and allows the schools and DOE to establish higher standards. Requires schools to have written permission from a parent before administering seizure drugs and to collaborate with a parent on a seizure action plan. Requires schools to maintain seizure action plans and to distribute information on the plans to school personnel. Requires the DOE to develop information on seizure action plans for the guidance of schools. Includes immunity provisions for good faith actions. Task Force: Directs the DOE & HHS to convene a task force to review the issue and to report by 12/23. | Quirmbach | 2/22/23 |
| SF379 | Establishes a formula for increasing pre-school funding based on the number of instruction hours offered to students (50% for less than 15 hours, 70% at 20 hours, 80% at 25 hours, 90% at 30 hours, 100% for more than 30 hours). | Quirmbach | 2/22/23 |
| SF381 (SF24) | Allows a minor with a special school permit to drive up to 50 miles for an extracurricular activity instead of the current limits. Strikes farm work authorizations and allows a licensee to take the most direct and accessible route. Requires the route to be less than 50 miles. Strikes a current presumption that a student who lives within a mile of the school does not need to drive. | Committee on Transportation | 2/22/23 |
| SF386 (SF17) | Prohibits courts from ordering support payments for post-secondary education in divorce cases. Applies to divorces and support orders after July 2023 and deems the change not to be the basis for modifying an order entered into before then. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/22/23 |
| SF389 (SF38) | Requires the DOE to convene a work group to study educational achievement gaps between racial and ethnic groups. Sets the membership of the group. Require the work group to determine if disparities exist and if so, to determine causes and steps that can be taken to reduce disparities. Requires a report and recommendations by December 2023. | Committee on Education | 2/23/23 |
| SF390 (SSB1111) | Notice: Allows notice of bond sales to be published electronically instead of in newspapers and sets requirements. Schools: Allows for the notice of the intent to fill a school board vacancy by appointment to be published electronically instead of in a newspaper. Authorizes the use of electronic signatures in specific cases. Strikes deeming persons working towards compliance with teacher librarian requirements as being in compliance. Strikes requiring schools to have rules on unloading buses in inclement weather. Allows schools to charge employees for the cost of registry checks. Puts schools in charge of administering the Pledge rather than school districts. Strikes certain oath requirements on bonds. Allows electronic signatures. Health: Strikes requirements for Regent schools, community colleges and schools to evaluate and implement environmentally friendly cleaning procedures. Strikes the goal that schools have a nurse for every 700 students and authorizes schools to have school nurses. Strikes requirements for Pre-K/K students be given a vision card. Requires the DOE to convene a health group. Infrastructure: Strikes requirements for revenue purpose statements. Requires a re-organizing school without a revenue purpose statement to first use funds to pay off outstanding bonds. Expands the definition of infrastructure to include additional buildings. Exempts refinancing bonds from certain notice/hearing requirements. Bonds: Allows schools to issue bonds without election and to use SAVE funds to secure repayment. 28E: Allows schools to enter into 28E agreements. Conference Boards: Strikes the requirement that school board representatives be appointed to county conference boards. Makes changes to voting on boards. Children facilities: Requires residential treatment facilities to give to the district of residence for the child documentation to obtain Medicaid reimbursements. AEA: Allows notice of a hearing for the AEA budget to be published electronically rather than in a newspaper. Elections: Gives a commissioner with discretionary authority the power to hold a special election on the same day as another election. | Committee on Education | 2/23/23 |
| SF391 (SSB1076) | Eliminates the Comprehensive School Improvement plan. Requires schools to file appropriate information with the DOE. Librarians: Allows schools to hire someone previously employed by a public library without being licensed by the BEE. Prohibits the BEE from requiring teacher librarian applicants to have an MLS. Strikes certain exceptions for media specialists. Counseling: Requires that a K-12 guidance program be designed to allow the counselor to work collaboratively with students, staff and others. Internet Instruction: Prohibits more than 5 days (30 hours) of school instruction time to be counted towards instruction hour/days requirements. CC: Strikes certain conditions on community colleges offering science and math classes to HS students and allows any cc to offer these classes. Sequential Instruction: Allows a cc teacher or a licensed teacher to teach two sequential units of the same subject in the same classroom. Includes requirements. Standards: Strikes the requirement for a technology literacy standard. Strikes standards for pre-kindergarten instruction on the family in relation to the child. Requires pre-kindergarten programs to encourage co-operation between home and school and focus on community resources. Requires 7-8 career exploration requirements to include skills to facilitate career development. Reduces the requirements for world language and fine arts requirements to two units. Allows all HS students to use certain current exceptions to taking PE courses. Strikes required instruction on AIDS, CPR and financial literacy but allows schools to offer CPR. | Committee on Education | 2/23/23 |
| SF392 (SSB1049) | Interns: Requires colleges with programs to help students be licensed as a teacher intern to meet specific requirements. Teach Iowa: Reserve funds for different groups of teachers (public, charter and private schools) and allows awards to individuals to vary as necessary. Licenses: Strikes requirements for an applicant for a regional license be an Iowa resident if the applicant has an Iowa job offer. Requires the BEE to issue teacher intern licenses to candidates who complete a qualified college program for teacher interns. Requires the BEE to allow a teacher intern to apply for a teaching license on the recommendation of the employing school and the college program. Requires the BEE to allow candidate to be issued career and secondary authorizations before receiving a job offer. Incentives/Retirement: Requires that teacher retirement incentives be discussed at regular school board meetings and that the board allow for public comment. Allows the use of the district management levy to pay for early retirement costs but prohibits expanding the levy in the same fiscal year as recruitment or retention incentives. | Committee on Education | 2/23/23 |
| SF393 | Requests the Legislative Council allow the School Finance Formula Review Committee meet in 2023 to begin review work due to various funding disparities. | Brown | 2/23/23 |
| SF398 (SF264) | Requires the DOE to include technical education assistance to schools on chartering technical & career education student organizations. Allows a HS athletic organization to sponsor robotics competitions. | Committee on Technology | 2/23/23 |
| SF412 | Limits eligibility for Educational Savings Accounts to students in a household with an income under 400% of the FPL. | Weiner | 2/23/23 |
| SF416 | Prohibits public or charter high schools from spending money on dues for athletic/extra-curricular organizations that do not classify schools by enrollment. Requires an enrollment adjustment for ESA students at a private school (1.5 times the actual enrollment). Prohibits moving a private school up more than one class. Excludes 8-man football. | Dickey & others | 2/23/23 |
| SF458 | Generally strikes the changes to collective bargaining made in 2017 and restores collective bargaining rights as of then. | T. Taylor & others | 2/28/23 |
| SF466 | Appropriates $6.6 million to the National Guard scholarship program for FY 2024. | Wahls | 3/1/23 |
| SF467 | Requires 30 hours of instruction time in pre-schools and increases the funding to 100% of the enrollment. | Knox & Trone Garriott | 3/1/23 |
| SF482 (SF335) | Requires K-12 schools to designate multi-occupant restrooms and changing rooms as being for one sex. Prohibits a person from using a toilet that does not correspond to the person’s biological sex. Allows a school to designate alternative facilities on the request of the parent of a child. Allows any citizen to file a complaint and AG to investigate and take enforcement actions. | Committee on Education | 3/2/23 |
| SF483 (SF177) | Requires public and private schools to have at least one employee trained in administering seizure medications by the 2024-25 school year. Deems that a school nurse meets these requirements. Requires school personnel to be trained to recognize seizures, to be trained in first aid and to have biennial training. Sets standards for training and allows the schools and DOE to establish higher standards. Requires schools to have written permission from a parent in advance before administering seizure drugs and to collaborate with a parent on a seizure action plan. Requires schools to maintain seizure action plans and to distribute information on the plans to school personnel. Requires the DOE to develop information on seizure action plans for the guidance of schools. Includes immunity provisions for good faith actions. | Committee on Education | 3/2/23 |
| SF484 (SF393) | Requests the Legislative Council allow the School Finance Formula Review Committee to meet in 2023 to begin review work due to various funding disparities. | Committee on Education | 3/2/23 |
| SF485 (SF29) | Strikes requirements that a sending and receiving district agree to arrangements for transportation for an open-enrolled student in cases where the receiving district vehicles do not go more than two miles into the other district. | Committee on Education | 3/2/23 |
| SF496 (SSB1145) | Sex Ed: Prohibits instruction on gender identify or sexual activity in grades K-3. Strikes required instruction on AIDS in Human Growth & Development (Sex Ed) courses and on HPV for grades 7-12. Requires sex ed to be age-appropriate and evidence-based in the kindergarten project. Civics: Requires the use of the US citizenship test in HS civics courses and that results be submitted to the DOE. Requires students to score 70% or to retake the test. Emotional Learning: Prohibits surveys on emotional learning or on physical health that are not required under law, unless the parent or guardian agree. Requires written notice of such surveys. Books: Requires the state BOE to adopt rules to require public schools and charter schools to review books in the library. Requires schools to publish a list of the material used in class, lists of persons with student contact, books available in the library and procedures to request removal of materials. Requires the school to notify the DOE of the removal of a book and for the DOE to maintain a removal list. Requires the parents of a minor child in other districts give written consent before a child can check out a schoolbook on the removal list. Prohibits allowing minors to serve on a committee that determines if material should be removed from a library. Gender ID: Requires schools to report to parents if a child expresses a different gender identity, unless the school believes the report will lead to child abuse. Requires written permission from parents before a child can be addressed with a name or pronoun that does not match the biological sex of the child. Other: Allows parents to review all school records on a child. Prohibits school districts from any activity involving obscene material or sexually explicit material. Includes civil penalties for schools. Requires parental consent before students can be asked about a variety of topics for surveys. Allows a child needing special education to be placed under private instruction without approval from an AEA. Deems the parent as ultimately responsible for decisions affecting medical care, moral upbringing, religion, residence, and extracurriculars. Exempts the bill from state mandate laws on funding. | Committee on Education | 3/2/23 |
| SF508 (SSB1096) | Fentanyl: Makes manufacturing/selling/possessing more than 50 grams of fentanyl a Class B felony (50 years and up to $1 million in fines); for amounts between 5-50 grams a Class B felony (25 years and a fine between $5,000 and $100,000); for measurable amounts, a Class C felony and fine between $1,000 and $50,000. Death: Triples the sentence of a person who manufactures a controlled substance that results in death and double if it results in serious injury. Does not allow the sentence to be deferred or for the manufacturer to use protections for someone who assists a person who overdoses. Deems the act of manufacturing the substance to be the cause of death. Minors: Adds current enhancements for manufacturing meth in the presence of minors to the manufacture of controlled substances and increases the penalty by doubling the sentence. Strikes certain 99-year sentences for dealing meth with minors and doubles the sentence instead. Makes subsequent violations a Class A felony. Includes additional substances under provisions covering deliver of controlled substances to minors. Opioid Antagonists: Allows a health care provider to prescribe opioid antagonists to a secondary distributor and for a pharmacist to dispense them to a secondary distributor. Defines secondary distributors (law enforcement, EMS, health care providers, schools, county health departments, HHS). Allows a pharmacist to administer opioid antagonists instead of naloxone. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/2/23 |
| SF514 (SSB1123) | Enacts provisions to reorganize all of state government. | Committee on State Government | 3/2/23 |
| SF543 (SSB1168) | Schools: Allows a school to authorize an employee to carry guns and ammo in a school vehicle. Authorizes a person with a valid carry permit who is making a delivery, or picking up or dropping off a person, to have a concealed gun but requires the gun remain in the vehicle and that the vehicle remain in specific parts of the school parking areas. Allows a retired peace officer to carry a gun on school grounds if the peace officer retired in good standing and has maintained certification and standards for handling guns. Colleges: Prohibits the regent universities and community colleges from prohibiting carrying dangerous weapons in vehicles if the weapon is not visible outside the vehicle, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Includes guns, various knives and tasers as dangerous weapons. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules to prohibit insurance companies from denying insurance to a school solely because of someone lawfully carrying a gun. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/6/23 |
| SF559 (SSB1211) | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the EDA, the IFA, PERB, DWD, ISU, UI and UNI. Makes appropriations from other funds, includes limits on standing appropriations and includes reporting requirements. | Committee on Appropriations | 4/4/23 |
| SF560 (SSB1212) | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the DOE, the DOB and the Regents. Includes limits on standing appropriations. | Committee on Appropriations | 4/4/23 |
| SF572 (SSB1208) | Tax Credits: Excludes any amounts paid from an Education Savings Account from eligibility for the Tuition & Textbook Tax Credit. Reduces the Tuition & Textbook Tax Credit cap to $17 million in 2024 and $14 million in 2025. Requires eligible school organizations to certify that tuition grants do not exceed amounts paid by parents for tuition. Changes to HF 68: Requires unused amounts in an ESA to be used by the student in consecutive future years and transfer the money to the state if the student does not participate in the program in the next year. Requires a private school to notify the DOE if a student with an ESA withdraws or is expelled and requires the DOE to stop disbursements and transfer the remaining funds to the state. Makes corrections. Textbooks: Strikes requirements for school districts to make texts available to non- public school students. | Committee on Ways and Means | 4/24/23 |
| SF578 (SSB1222) | Reduces the standings for the instructional support state aid and AEAs. Authorizes salary adjustment measures as determined by the DOM. Changes the distribution of the ending balance to the EEF for FY 2023. Makes corrections. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/2/23 |
Senate Study Bills
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSB1005 | Gives immunity to a school boards, districts, AEAs, private and charter schools and the authorities in charge of those against liability for corporal punishment against a student to the extent that a school employee or volunteer has immunity and allows for the collection of damages for wrongful accusations to the same extent of a school employee or volunteer who has been wrongfully accused. | Zaun | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1022 | ESA: Creates the Students First Ac t. Establishes education scholarships for K-12 students that can be used to pay private schools. Phases the scholarships in over three years, based on family income. Establishes a fund controlled by the DOE make payments into the ESA. Allows unspent money in an ESA to be retained until graduation or the student is 20. Allows the DOM to contract with a 3rd-party to manage the fund. Excludes the scholarships from the income tax. Spending: Allows funds appropriated to schools under various programs to be used for teacher salaries. | Governor Bill | 1/11/23 |
| SSB1023 | Allows recipients of computer science professional development grants to use the money in the fiscal year the grant is awarded through to September 30. Effective on enactment. | Rozenboom | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1024 | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for MH practitioners using the MH loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a MH practitioner who fails to fulfill service obligations. Establishes provisions for proportional payments for part-time practitioners. Effective for loan repayments on enactment. | College Student Aid Commission | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1025 | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for doctors using the rural primary care loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a doctor who fails to fulfill service obligations. Effective for loan repayments on enactment. | College Student Aid Commission | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1028 | Allows persons who are qualified to give behind-the-wheel driving instruction but who are not licensed teachers to administer a final field driving test. | Department of Transportation | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1037 | Repeals the requirements for boards to be gender balanced. | Schulz | 1/12/23 |
| SSB1049 | Interns: Requires colleges with programs to help students be licensed as a teacher intern to meet specific requirements. Requires the BEE to issue teacher intern licenses to applicants who complete these programs. Requires the BEE to allow candidate to be issued career and secondary authorizations before receiving a job offer. Teach Iowa: Makes a student who is in the top 30% of a teacher education program eligible for the grants. Makes the requirement that the teacher be prepared in certain areas to being prepared to give classroom instruction. Reserve funds for different groups of teachers (public, charter and private schools) and allows awards to individuals to vary as necessary. Incentives/Retirement: Requires that teacher retirement incentives be discussed at regular school board meetings and that the board allow for public comment. Adopts limits on the use of recruitment and early retirement programs. | Rozenboom | 1/17/23 |
| SSB1076 | Eliminates the Comprehensive School Improvement plan. | Governor Bill | 1/24/23 |
| SSB1081 | Establishes an SSA and a Categorical Growth rate of 2% for the 2023-24 school year. | Rozenboom | 1/24/23 |
| SSB1086 | Establishes an Office of Apprenticeship and an Iowa Apprenticeship Council in the DWD. Gives the Office various duties related to the registration of apprenticeships. Establishes the members of the Council, including the DWD director as an ex officio member. Other: Requires licensing authorities to grant licenses to persons who have successfully completed apprenticeship programs. Prohibits exams for apprentices that are different than the exam for other applicants. Divides training and administration responsibilities between sponsors of apprenticeship programs and employers. | Zaun | 1/26/23 |
| SSB1111 | Notice: Allows notice of bond sales to be published electronically instead of in newspapers and sets requirements. Schools: Allows for the notice of the intent to fill a school board vacancy by appointment to be published electronically instead of in a newspaper. Authorizes the use of electronic signatures in specific cases. Strikes deeming persons working towards compliance with teacher librarian requirements as being in compliance. Allows schools to charge employees for the cost of registry checks. School Health: Strikes requirements for Regent schools, community colleges and schools to evaluate and implement environmentally friendly cleaning procedures. Strikes the goal that schools have a nurse for every 700 students and authorizes schools to have school nurses. Strikes requirements for Pre-K/K students be given a vision card. Requires the DOE to convene a health group. Infrastructure: Strikes requirements for revenue purpose statements. Requires a re-organizing school without a revenue purpose statement to first use funds to pay off outstanding bonds. Expands the definition of infrastructure to include additional buildings. Exempts refinancing bonds from certain notice/hearing requirements. Bonds: Allows schools to issue bonds without election and to use SAVE funds to secure repayment. 28E: Allows schools to enter into 28E agreements. Conference Boards: Strikes the requirement that representatives for school boards be appointed to county conference boards. Children facilities: Requires residential treatment facilities to give to the district of residence for the child documentation to obtain Medicaid reimbursements. AEA: Allows notice of a hearing for the AEA budget to be published electronically rather than in a newspaper. Elections: Gives an election commissioner with discretionary authority the power to hold a special election on the same day as another election. | Committee on Education | 1/31/23 |
| SSB1123 | Enacts provisions to reorganize all of state government. | Committee on State Government | 2/2/23 |
| SSB1124 | Relates to local government property taxes, financial authority, and budgets, and including effective date and applicability provisions. | Committee on Ways and Means | 2/2/23 |
| SSB1133 | Iowa Scholarships: Makes all foster children under age 26 eligible for scholarships. | Governor Bill | 2/7/23 |
| SSB1139 | Iowa Scholarships: Changes eligibility to make all foster children under age 26 eligible for scholarships. | Committee on Health and Human Services | 2/8/23 |
| SSB1145 | Sex Ed: Prohibits instruction on gender identify or sexual activity in grades K-3. Strikes required instruction on AIDS in Human Growth & Development (Sex Ed) courses and on HPV for grades 7-12. Requires sex ed to be age-appropriate and evidence-based in the kindergarten project. Civics: Requires the use of the US citizenship test in HS civics courses and that results be submitted to the DOE. Requires students to score 70% or to retake the test. Emotional Learning: Prohibits surveys on emotional learning or on physical health that are not required under law, unless the parent or guardian agree. Requires written notice of such surveys. Books: Requires schools to publish a list of the material used in class, lists of persons with student contact, books available in the library and procedures to request removal of materials. Requires the school to notify the DOE of the removal of a book and for the DOE to maintain a removal list. Requires the parents of a minor child in other districts give written consent before a child can check out a school book on the removal list. Gender ID: Requires schools to report to parents if a child expresses a different gender identity, unless the school believes the report will lead to child abuse. Requires the school to then report to HHS instead for potential action. Other: Allows parents to review all school records on a child. Prohibits school districts from any activity involving obscene material or sexually explicit material. Includes civil penalties for schools. Deems the parent as ultimately responsible for decisions affecting medical care, moral upbringing, religion, residence, education and extracurriculars. | Governor Bill | 2/9/23 |
| SSB1146 | Deems that the juvenile courts have exclusive jurisdiction over the guardianship of minors. Court Visitors: Includes requirements for court visitors, including the discharge of a court visitor. Hearings: Allows a petition for a guardianship to be recorded if a court reporter is not used. Temporary Guardianships: Allows extensions for good cause and includes reporting requirements. Checks: Allows background checks of proposed guardians. Conservators: Requires petitions to include the basis for the conservatorship. Specifies the fiduciary powers of a conservator and when financial powers can be executed without court order. Makes changes to reporting requirements for conservators and guardians. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/9/23 |
| SSB1147 | Deems that the juvenile courts have exclusive jurisdiction over the guardianship of minors. Makes official juvenile court records in guardianships confidential and allows release to specific persons without a court order (judges and staff, to various legal counsel, parents, guardians, custodians and court visitors). Requires petitions to include the address of persons the minor has lived with in the six months prior to the petition. Requires petitions to state if a conservatorship is in place. Includes notice requirements and requirements for court visitors, including that the court visitor be discharged when a guardian/conservator is appointed except by court order to continue. Makes changes to background checks. Makes changes to the duties of conservators. Makes changes to reporting requirements for conservators and guardians. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/9/23 |
| SSB1168 | DOC: Excludes guns and ammo carried in a locked trunk in a car parked in a public lot from prohibitions on carrying contraband unto DOC facilities. Work: Bars employers from prohibiting employers from carrying guns and ammo in a locked car trunk. Makes the employer immune from any claim arising from such guns. Schools: Allows a school to authorize an employee to carry guns and ammo in a school vehicle. Authorizes a person with a valid carry permit who is making a delivery, or picking up or dropping off a person, to have a concealed gun but requires the gun remain in the vehicle and that the vehicle remain in specific parts of the school parking areas. Allows a retired peace officer to carry a gun on school grounds if the peace officer retired in good standing and has maintained certification and standards for handling guns. Colleges: Prohibits the regent universities and community colleges from prohibiting carrying dangerous weapons in vehicles if the weapon is not visible outside the vehicle, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Includes guns, various knives and tasers as dangerous weapons. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules to prohibit insurance companies from denying insurance to a school solely because of someone lawfully carrying a gun. Cars: Repeals certain prohibitions against carrying guns in cars. Permits: Strikes certain requirements for an officer to immediately revoke or reinstate a carry permit for an arrest for a disqualifying offense. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/3/23 |
| SSB1208 | Tax Credits: Excludes any amounts paid from an Education Savings Account from eligibility for the Tuition & Textbook Tax Credit. Reduces the Tuition & Textbook Tax Credit cap to $17 million in 2024 and $14 million in 2025. Requires eligible school organizations to certify that tuition grants do not exceed amounts paid by parents for tuition. Changes to HF 68: Requires unused amounts in an ESA to be used by the student in consecutive future years and transfer the money to the state if the student does not participate in the program in the next year. Requires a private school to notify the DOE if a student with an ESA withdraws or is expelled and requires the DOE to stop disbursements and transfer the remaining funds to the state. Makes corrections. Textbooks: Strikes requirements for school districts to make texts available to non-public school students. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/23/23 |
| SSB1211 | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the EDA, the IFA, PERB, DWD, ISU, UI and UNI. Makes appropriations from other funds, includes limits on standing appropriations and includes reporting requirements. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/29/23 |
| SSB1212 | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the DOE, the DOB and the Regents. Includes limits on standing appropriations. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/29/23 |
| SSB1222 | Reduces the standings for the instructional support state aid and AEAs. Authorizes salary adjustment measures as determined by the DOM. Changes the distribution of the ending balance to the EEF for FY 2023. Makes corrections. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/1/23 |
Senate Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCR1 | Urges the US Congress to enact legislation to limit the interest rates on student loans. | Zaun | 1/09/23 |
| SCR2 | Requires the US Congress to propose a constitutional amendment to set the number of justices on the Supreme Court at nine. | Zaun | 1/12/23 |
Senate Joint Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJR13 | Proposes an amendment to the Iowa Constitution that all Iowa children have a right to comprehensive public education. | Quirmbach | 3/8/23 |
House Files
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HF1 | School Taxes: Reduces the school foundation property tax levy to $4.90 per $1,000. Effective on enactment. | Grassley & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF4 | Requires the BEE to issue temporary initial teaching licenses to candidates who complete an alternative certification program. Requires the BEE to issue teacher intern licenses to candidates who complete a qualified college program for teacher interns. Requires the BEE to allow a teacher intern to apply for a teaching license on the recommendation of the employing school and the college program. Strikes requirements for an applicant for a regional license be an Iowa resident if the applicant has an Iowa job offer. Requires the BEE to allow candidate to be issued career and secondary authorizations before receiving a job offer. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF5 | Requires school boards and charter schools to make specific information available to parents: for review the curriculum and how to prevent a student from receiving certain instructional material; syllabuses and other course material; lists of library books and procedures to request the removal of a book; and professional development courses. Requires the DOE to act on violations, including withholding payments. Includes additional procedures on removing school library books including the creation of a document to show parents the procedures. Includes a special education exception. Social Studies: Requires the US citizenship test be used as the assessment for the required HS government and civics class. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF6 | Establishes the Iowa Workforce Grant & Incentive Program in the CSC. Grants: Allows eligible students to receive grants for up to three semesters, and for part-time students to receive grants for up to six semesters. Caps grants at $2,500 a semester. Sets priority for persons who previously received the grants and those with the least ability to pay. Requires repayment if a student drops out before the end of the semester. Incentives: Allows a recipient who begins employment in a related field to apply for a one-time incentive payment of $2,500. Other: Establishes a fund and makes the program subject to appropriation. Makes definitions. | Stone & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF7 | Requires the Regents to report to the Legislature about how specific terms are used in courses related to education, by February 27, 2023. Requests an interim study committee on program planning related to completing various education degrees. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF8 | Prohibits schools and charter schools from including any instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation in K-3 education. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF9 | Prohibits schools from any accommodation for a student’s gender identity if differs from the identity on the student’s birth certificate without written permission from the parent. Prohibits withholding information related to a student’s gender identity or an intention to transition from a parent. Prohibits encouraging students to transition their gender identity. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF10 | Requires mandatory reporters to report abuse of children over the age of 12. Requires the DOE to develop for reporting on and investigating a school employee with an authorization, license or certification who may have committed certain felonies or acts. Establishes immunity for the school board or school authorities for discussing such incidents. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF11 | Requires the Regents to publish the average income and student loan debt graduates with a bachelor’s degree. Requires the state universities to give the Regents such information about students. Includes requirements for the information to be on the internet and to be sortable, to include information about graduate school and other matters. Requires the universities to connect students with career planning services. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF12 | Requires that a comparative discussions of political ideologies that conflict with the ideas of freedom and democracy essential to the founding of the US be taught in HS government class. | Wheeler & others | 1/12/23 | |
| HF15 | Appropriates $4.2 million for an Employment & Education Pathways program. Directs the DOE through its community college division and through the community colleges to give education services to persons leaving prison or jail. Directs the DOC to work with other agencies to provide services for the program. Directs the state BEE to adopt rules. | Kressig | 1/13/23 | |
| HF16 | Requires the CSC to develop a scholarship program for individuals over 18 who have intellectual, development or learning disabilities and who are enrolled in a comprehensive transition program post-secondary program. Requires the CSC to develop criteria for the program and to adopt rules. | Ingels | 1/13/23 | |
| HF17 | Allows a parent to enroll their child at another school in the school district if the school board reasonably believes that another student or school employee or contractor has committed a crime of violence or sexual abuse against the student. Requires the parent to make a request to the school board. Authorizes the school board to adopt policies to allow the school supervisor to approve requests. Makes the requests for a period of at least a year. | Boden | 1/13/23 | |
| HF19 | Changes the eligibility for the MH practitioner loan repayment program to practicing at an eligible practice site rather than eligible area and defines eligible practice sites. | Kressig | 1/12/23 | |
| HF23 | Retains the requirement that a psychologist seeking a conditional prescription certificate complete certain education and clinical experience but strikes the requirement that it be done in the five years immediately prior to application. Requires the prescribing psychologist to maintain a relationship with a patient’s primary care doctor. | Fry & A. Meyer | 1/12/23 | |
| HF24 | Creates an interstate compact to allow out-of-state psychologists to practice telemedicine with Iowa patients, to allow in-person practice in Iowa on a temporary basis and to allow Iowa psychologists to practice telemedicine with out-of-state patients. | Bergan | 1/12/23 | |
| HF30 | Increases the number of employees a company can have and still be eligible for Innovative Butcher grants to 75 employees. | Ingels | 1/12/23 | |
| HF32 | Requires the DNR to develop a “No Child Left Inside” grant program for outdoor and environmental education and recreation program. Establishes a fund for appropriations and contributions, including the deposit of federal COVID funds unless the Governor determines that to be contrary to federal guidelines. Includes priorities for making grants from the fund. | Isenhart | 1/12/23 | |
| HF36 | Strikes the farm work exception that authorizes minors with a special permit to drive for farm work. | Kressig | 1/12/23 | |
| HF39 | Allows a student attending a charter school to participate in athletics and extracurriculars at the student’s district of residence if the charter school does not offer the activity. Counts the student in the school enrollment and as 0.1 students for funding. Requires the state BOE to adopt rules. | Fisher | 1/13/23 | |
| HF40 | Requires the DOE to create a world language pilot program in four elementary schools. Includes criteria for the schools and the program, reporting requirements and a $200,000 appropriation. | Abdul-Samad | 1/13/23 | |
| HF41 | Strikes requirements that a sending and receiving district agree to arrangements for transportation for an open-enrolled student. | Jones & P Thompson | 1/13/23 | |
| HF42 | Allows cities to designate entertainment areas and entertainment surcharges. Makes requirements for such entertainment areas, including supermajority approval by the city council. Includes implementing provisions. | Lohse | 1/12/23 | |
| HF44 | Requires the DAS, in consultation with the Capitol Planning Commission, to put a statue of Martin Treptow, which includes his poem My Pledge, on the Capitol grounds. | Sorensen | 1/12/23 | |
| HF48 | Prohibits tenure at the state universities. Establishes reasons for just cause firings. | Holt | 1/18/23 | |
| HF68 (HSB1) | ESA: Creates the Students First Act. Establishes education scholarships for K-12 students that can be used to pay private schools. Phases the scholarships in over three years, based on family income. Establishes a fund controlled by the DOE make payments into the ESA. Allows unspent money in an ESA to be retained until graduation or the student is 20. Allows the DOM to contract with a 3rd-party to manage the fund. Excludes the scholarships from the income tax. Spending: Allows funds appropriated to schools under various programs to be used for salaries. | Committee on Education Reform | 1/19/23 | |
| HF72 | Strikes requirements that a sending and receiving district agree to arrangements for transportation for an open-enrolled student. | Fisher | 1/20/23 | |
| HF73 | Requires the DOE to develop an age-appropriate model firearms safety course, based on hunter safety education, for 6-12 students in public and private schools. Requires the DOE to develop a firearms safety program, based on NRA programs, for K-5 students. | Wheeler | 1/20/23 | |
| HF84 | Requires ISU to establish an undergraduate degree in Soil & Water Conservation by the 2024 fall semester. Requires the Regents to establish transition provisions allowing the transfer of credits from community colleges for the degree. | Isenhart | 1/24/23 | |
| HF95 | Requires the BEE to issue temporary initial teaching licenses to candidates with an undergraduate degree who successfully complete an alternative certification program. Allows the Regents to offer alternative programs and requires other alternative teaching programs to operate in at least five states and for at least ten years. Requires the BEE to treat candidates who have completed these programs and who receive an initial license in the same manner as those who finish traditional programs. Imposes the same requirements on candidates with a temporary license seeking licensing beyond that as are on candidates with an initial license seeking licensing beyond that. | Wills | 1/24/23 | |
| HF97 | Authorizes schools to use the district management levy to pay student teachers. | Moore | 1/25/23 | |
| HF98 | Extends operational weighting through 2034. | Moore | 1/25/23 | |
| HF99 | Requires the DOE to use entry-level driving training as proof the applicant has completed instruction as a school bus driver as long as the course includes passenger endorsement training and school bus endorsement training. | Moore | 1/25/23 | |
| HF100 | Strikes the requirement that an applicant for a BEE license be 21. | Moore | 1/24/23 | |
| HF101 | Requires public school 7-12 ID cards to include the Your Iowa Crisis telephone and text numbers. Applies to IDs issued after the effective date of the bill but allows schools to use of existing IDs until that supply is exhausted. | Nordman | 1/25/23 | |
| HF104 | Appropriates $335,000 in FY 2024 to the DOE for an advanced dyslexia specialist endorsement grant program. Allows 25 grants a year to teachers to offset the cost of obtaining the endorsement. | Osmundson & Jones | 1/25/23 | |
| HF123 | Makes information technology specialist a position that can be shared using supplemental operational weighting. | Kurth | 1/26/23 | |
| HF129 | Requires the DOE to establish a dyslexia provider grant program to help families offset the cost of services from dyslexia providers. | Jones | 1/26/23 | |
| HF132 (HF12) | Requires that a comparative discussions of political ideologies that conflict with freedom and democracy essential to the founding of the US be taught in HS government. | Committee on Education | 1/26/23 | |
| HF134 (HF41) | Strikes requirements that a sending and receiving district agree to arrangements for transportation for an open-enrolled student. | Committee on Education | 1/26/23 | |
| HF135 (HF11) | Requires the Regents to publish the average income and student loan debt graduates with a bachelor’s degree. Requires the state universities to give the Regents such information about students. Includes requirements for the information to be on the internet and to be sortable, to include information about graduate school and other matters. Requires the universities to connect students with career planning services. | Committee on Education | 1/26/23 | |
| HF151 (HSB9) | Strikes the current MH practitioner loan repayment program and establishes a new program in the CSC. Requires MH practitioners to practice in service commitment areas and enters into the agreement during the final year of school. Establishes priorities for Iowa residents. | Committee on Health and Human Services | 1/31/23 | |
| HF152 | Creates a rural school security grant program for school districts under 1,000 students. Requires the DOE to establish the grants up to $20,000 for school resource officers. Appropriates $4 million for the grants. | Collins & Others | 1/31/23 | |
| HF153 | Establishes a fund for the demolition of vacant school buildings in the EDA and appropriates money from RIIF. Requires that applications from small towns be prioritized. Requires proceeds from the sale of the property after demolition, except for certain costs, be returned to the fund but does not require that the property be sold. Allows the EDA to use 5% of the fund for administration and to report annually. | Fisher | 1/31/23 | |
| HF165 | Requires school boards to allow 17-year olds to register to vote on the fourth Tuesday in September and on one other day. Requires the county auditor (commissioner) or a designee to conduct the registration. Requires schools to report on voter registration activities with the DOE. | Staed & others | 2/1/23 | |
| HF166 | Strikes the ability of a minor to consent to vaccinations. Strikes the requirement that Human Growth & Development (sex ed) courses include information on HPV vaccinations. | Hayes | 2/1/23 | |
| HF171 (HSB117) | Establishes an SSA and a Categorical Growth rate of 3% for the 2023-24 school year. | Committee on Education | 2/1/23 | |
| HF180 (HF9) | Prohibits schools from any accommodation for a student’s gender identity if differs from the identity on the student’s birth certificate without written permission from the parent. Prohibits withholding information related to a student’s gender identity or an intention to transition from a parent. Prohibits encouraging students to transition their gender identity. | Committee on Education | 2/1/23 | |
| HF181 (HSB41) | Prohibits the Regents from investing in companies controlled by the Chinese military or Chinese government. Makes definitions. Requires the sale of assets in prohibited companies within 180 days of the company becoming a prohibited company. Requires the creation and maintenance of a list of scrutinized companies. Includes other provisions. | Committee on Education | 2/1/23 | |
| HF182 (HF7) | Requires the Regents to report to the Legislature about how specific terms are used in courses related to education by February 27, 2023. Requests an interim study committee on program planning related to completing various education degrees. | Committee on Education | 2/1/23 | |
| HF185 (HF30) | Increases the number of employees a company can have and still be eligible for Innovative Butcher grants to 75 employees. | Committee on Economic Growth and Technology | 2/2/23 | |
| HF186 | Makes an accredited private university (Waldorf University) that was purchased in 2010 by a for-profit school and then sold to an Iowa non-profit in December 2022 eligible for Iowa tuition grants from December 2022 to June 2023. | Stone | 2/2/23 | |
| HF187 | Strikes the ability of a minor to consent to vaccinations. Strikes the requirement that Human Growth & Development (sex ed) courses include information on HPV vaccinations. | Shipley | 2/2/23 | |
| HF190 | Strikes gender protections from the Iowa Civil Rights Act and defines sex as either male or female. | Fisher & others | 2/2/23 | |
| HF196 | Requires school board meetings to include at least 30 minutes for public comment. Allows a time limit to be imposed if necessary due to the number of persons signed up to speak. | Jones | 2/7/23 | |
| HF210 | Allows the BEE to issue an authorization for a substitute teacher for pre-K-8 to a person who is at least 20 years old. | Nordman | 2/8/23 | |
| HF220 | Requires schools to develop information about the Iowa College Tuition Grant program, in consultation with the College Student Aid Commission, about the grants for HS 10-12 students. | Harris | 2/8/23 | |
| HF221 | Specifies some of the required equivalents to be used by the BEE in licensing out-of-state applicants. Includes all license holders who move to the state under exceptions for certain professions that allow military members/spouses to be licensed without examination. | Moore | 2/8/23 | |
| HF224 | Requires the BEE to perform criminal background checks every five years for practitioners who are not subject to other license renewal requirements. Applies various provisions requiring schools to do background criminal checks on teachers and to charge teachers for those checks to private schools and charter schools. | Moore | 2/8/23 | |
| HF233 | Requires the DOE to develop an internet site where parents can declare their intention to use an ESA. Requires the DOE to notify schools about the number of children who will be using ESAs but not to identify the individual children. | Gehlbach & Rinker | 2/8/23 | |
| HF234 | Raises the minimum salary for teacher interns/initial license to $33,000 and the minimum salary for other teachers $40,000. | Siegrist | 2/8/23 | |
| HF241 | Establishes Truancy Reduction pilot programs in the DOE, in collaboration with social workers, for Linn County (county between 200,000 and 300,000), Bremer County (between 25,000 and 25,600) and two other small counties (16,600-16,700 and 17,100-17,400) to evaluate and address truancy. Appropriates $300,000 for the programs. Repeals the programs as of July 2025. | Gjerde | 2/8/23 | |
| HF244 | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for MH practitioners using the MH loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a MH practitioner who fails to fulfill service obligations. Establishes provisions for proportional payments for part-time practitioners. Effective for loan repayments on enactment. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF251 (HSB58) | Strikes the farm work exception that authorizes minors with a special permit to drive for farm work. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF252 (HF16) | Requires the CSC to develop a scholarship program for individuals over 18 who have intellectual, development or learning disabilities and who are enrolled in a comprehensive transition program post- secondary program. Requires the CSC to develop criteria for the program and to adopt rules. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF253 (HF39) | Allows a student attending a charter school to participate in athletics and extracurriculars at the student’s district of residence if the charter school does not offer the activity. Counts the student in the school enrollment and as 0.1 students for funding. Requires the state BOE to adopt rules. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF254 (HSB90) | Reduces the number of hours for cosmetology training to 1,000 hours. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF255 (HF4) | Requires the BEE to issue temporary initial teaching licenses to candidates who complete an alternative certification program. Requires the BEE to issue teacher intern licenses to candidates who complete a qualified college program for teacher interns. Requires the BEE to allow a teacher intern to apply for a teaching license on the recommendation of the employing school and the college program. Strikes requirements for an applicant for a regional license be an Iowa resident if the applicant has an Iowa job offer. Requires the BEE to allow candidate to be issued career and secondary authorizations before receiving a job offer. Requires the BEE to issue temporary initial teaching licenses to candidates with an undergraduate degree who successfully complete an alternative certification program. Requires alternative teaching programs to operate in at least five states and for at least ten years. Requires the BEE to treat candidates who have completed these programs and who receive an initial license in the same manner as those who finish traditional programs. Imposes the same requirements on candidates with a temporary license seeking licensing beyond that as are on candidates with an initial license. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF256 (HF100) | Strikes the requirement that an applicant for a BEE license be 21. | Committee on Education | 2/9/23 | |
| HF283 | Strikes requirements that a parent of a home-schooled child (competent private instruction) give proof to a school district that the child has been immunized and had a blood lead test. Requires additional information on the course of study for a home-schooled child to the school district. Strikes limits on the number of unrelated children and the requirement to not charge tuition in the definition of independent private instruction and deems such instruction not to be an accredited non-public school. | Gustoff | 2/14/23 | |
| HF284 | Excludes the payment of qualified education expenses for private instruction from an Iowa Educational Savings Plan Trust (529) from net income. Defines such expenses. | Gustoff | 2/14/23 | |
| HF285 | Requires public schools to have policies excusing the absences of a student for treatments related to autism and autism spectrum disorders. | Bradley |
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| HF292 | Establishes an individual and corporate income tax credit for up to 65% of the contributions made to a private instruction non-profit. Requires that 90% of the contribution be used for grants to students in households with an income under 400% of the FPL. Requires the grants be made to students living in Iowa, and that the type or location of the instruction not be limited. Includes a formula for determining the amount of credits. Caps the aggregate credit at $10 million in the first year, and $20 million in later years. Requires the non-profit organization to report to the DOR annually. | Gustoff | 2/14/23 | |
| HF293 | Prohibits a community college from duplicating career and technical education offered by a private school in its area if the private school has adequate facilities and curriculum. | Wills | 2/15/23 | |
| HF294 | Makes the school foundation aid formula for a district equal to the difference between foundation property tax in the district and the combined foundation base for the district. Makes the minimum aid amount for a district equal to the state foundation minimum. Requires the district foundation property tax to be reduced if the sum of the state foundation aid and the district property tax exceeds the combined foundation base. Makes new definitions. | Gehlbach | 2/15/23 | |
| HF295 | Strikes requirements for counties to consider buying or leasing vacant school buildings before building or leasing a new facility. | Wood | 2/15/23 | |
| HF297 | Increases funding for pre-school enrollment by making the formula 50% of the actual enrollment of students from families with incomes over 200% of the FPL plus the actual enrollment of students from families with incomes under that level. | Ingels | 2/15/23 | |
| HF315 (HF99) | Requires the DOE to use entry-level driving training as proof the applicant has completed instruction as a school bus driver as long as the course includes passenger endorsement training and school bus endorsement training. | Committee on Education | 2/15/23 | |
| HF323 | Authorizes school boards to pay student teachers at an amount equal to the lowest salary the district pays teachers. | Committee on Education | 2/15/23 | |
| HF327 | Eliminates the Comprehensive School Improvement plan. Librarians: Allows schools to hire someone previously employed by a public library without being licensed by the BEE. Prohibits the BEE from requiring teacher librarian applicants to have an MLS. Strikes certain exceptions for media specialists. Counseling: Requires that a K-12 guidance program be designed to allow the counselor to work collaboratively with students, staff and others. Internet: Prohibits more than 5 days (30 hours) of school instruction time to be counted towards instruction time requirements. CC: Strikes certain conditions on community colleges offering science and math classes to HS students and allows any cc to offer these classes. Sequential Instruction: Allows a cc teacher or a licensed teacher to teach two sequential units of the same subject in the same classroom. Includes requirements. Standards: Strikes the requirement for a technology literacy standard. Strikes standards for pre-kindergarten instruction on the family in relation to the child. Requires pre-kindergarten programs to encourage co-operation between home and school and focus on community resources. Requires 7-8 career exploration requirements to include skills to facilitate career development. Reduces the requirements for world language to two units. Reduces fine arts requirements to two units. Allows all HS students to use certain current exceptions to taking PE course. Strikes required instruction on AIDS, CPR and financial literacy but allows schools to offer CPR. Strikes requirements for students to know CPR. | Committee on Education | 2/15/23 | |
| HF328 | Requires the DOE to develop a pilot program on giving students multi-vitamins. Includes requirements for informing parents and consent from parents and on reporting on the program. | Shipley | 2/15/23 | |
| HF330 | Requires students to recite the state motto (“Our Liberties We Prize, Our Rights We Respect”) after saying the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. Allows children to opt out. | Shipley | 2/15/23 | |
| HF339 (HF153) | Establishes a fund for the demolition of vacant school buildings in the EDA and appropriates $2 million from RIIF from FY 2024-2025. Sets timelines for acquisition of buildings. Requires that applications from small towns be prioritized. Requires proceeds from the sale of the property after demolition, except for certain costs, be returned to the fund but does not require that the property be sold. Allows the EDA to use 5% of the fund for administration and to report annually. | Committee on Economic Growth and Technology | 2/20/23 | |
| HF341 | Bans serving margarine and hydrogenated vegetable oil in school meals. | Shipley | 2/20/23 | |
| HF348 (HF8) | Prohibits schools and charter schools from including any instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation in K-6 education. Requires sex ed classes (human growth and development) to be age-appropriate and research-based. | Committee on Education | 2/20/23 | |
| HF349 (HSB55) | Gives a probationer a discharge credit for each month the person successfully completes the terms of probation, an education credit for earning various degrees/certificates and workforce credit for each six- month period the probationer works 30 hours a week. Requires the probation officer to give an accounting to the probationer every quarter. Does not allow for a reduction of more than 60% of the probation term. Allows for administrative review of credits and limits the use. Takes effect t 7/24. | Committee on Public Safety | 2/20/23 | |
| HF350 (HSB144) | Requires the custodian of a public record, in response to a request, to promptly give contact information, an approximate date for approximate the release and an estimate of reasonable costs. Requires information be given on delays in record production. | Committee on State Government | 2/20/23 | |
| HF355 (HF224) | Requires the BEE to perform criminal background checks every five years for practitioners who are not subject to other license renewal requirements. Applies various provisions requiring schools to do background criminal checks on teachers and to charge teachers for those checks to private schools and charter schools. | Committee on Education | 2/20/23 | |
| HF360 (HF123) | Makes information technology specialist a shared position using supplemental operational weighting. | Committee on Education | 2/20/23 | |
| HF361 | Prohibits a teacher or administrator from knowingly giving a student obscene material on school property or assigning such material. Requires schools to have at least one administrator to ensure that obscene material is kept out of the library or other areas. Requires the BEE to revoke licenses or deny applicants for violations. Authorizes civil actions and allows prevailing parents to collect actual damages and civil penalties of $20,000. Includes other enforcement provisions. | Hayes & others | 2/20/23 | |
| HF362 | Prohibits the DOE from displaying on its website survey information about emotional learning. Requires school boards and charter schools to receive written consent before allowing a student to participate in a survey that reveals political affiliations, family information or a variety of other topics related to emotional/social learning. Prohibits employees from answering related questions about such employees. | Hayes | 2/20/23 | |
| HF363 | Establishes a standing appropriation to supplement federal funds to all for free breakfast and lunch to all students in private, public and charter schools. Requires food to be grown and processed in Iowa or surrounding states. | Isenhart | 2/20/23 | |
| HF366 | Establishes a refund for school supplies purchased by a parent for a home-schooled child. Requires the DOR to develop a form for the patents to use. Excludes such refunds from the income tax. | Gustoff | 2/20/23 | |
| HF367 | Prohibits schools and charter schools from taking disciplinary action against employees, students or contractors for the failure to use the preferred pronoun of a student or for the failure to list a preferred pronoun in the signature block. | Stone | 2/20/23 | |
| HF370 (HSB118) | Notice: Allows notice of bond sales to be published electronically instead of in newspapers and sets requirements. Schools: Allows for the notice of the intent to fill a school board vacancy by appointment to be published electronically instead of in a newspaper. Authorizes the use of electronic signatures in specific cases. Strikes deeming persons working towards compliance with teacher librarian requirements as being in compliance. Allows schools to charge employees for the cost of registry checks. Health: Strikes requirements for Regent schools, community colleges and schools to evaluate and implement environmentally friendly cleaning procedures. Strikes the goal that schools have a nurse for every 700 students and authorizes schools to have school nurses. Strikes requirements for Pre-K/K students be given a vision card. Requires the DOE to convene a health group. Infrastructure: Strikes requirements for revenue purpose statements. Requires a re-organizing school without a revenue purpose statement to first use funds to pay off outstanding bonds. Expands the definition of infrastructure to include additional buildings. Exempts refinancing bonds from certain notice/hearing requirements. Bonds: Allows schools to issue bonds without election and to use SAVE funds to secure repayment. 28E: Allows schools to enter into 28E agreements. Conference Boards: Strikes the requirement that representatives for school boards be appointed to county conference boards. Child facilities: Requires residential treatment facilities to give to the district of residence for the child documentation to obtain Medicaid reimbursements. AEA: Allows notice of a hearing for the AEA budget to be published electronically in lieu of publishing in a newspaper. Elections: Gives an election commissioner with discretionary authority the power to hold a special election on the same day as another election. | Committee on Education | 2/20/23 | |
| HF372 | Adds activities that a 12-grader can use as alternative activities from PE including show choir, marching band and color guard, if a parent requests and the school principal agrees. | Gehlbach | 2/21/23 | |
| HF375 | Prohibits hunting near a school (with a bow within 75 yards and with a gun within 1/2 mile). | Kurth & Croken | 2/21/23 | |
| HF377 | Prohibits the use of foods with insect-protein or lab-grown/GMO proteins that simulate meat in school lunches. Makes legislative findings that such proteins may have unknown or adverse consequences. Prohibits DOE guidelines from including such proteins as nutritionally adequate. Requires the DOE to indicate if a plant-based protein is used and prohibits describing such proteins as eggs or meat. | Shipley | 2/21/23 | |
| HF379 | Requires public and private schools to have at least one employee trained in administering seizure medications by the 2024-25 school year. Deems that a school nurse meets these requirements. Requires school personnel to be trained to recognize seizures, to be trained in first aid and to have biennial training. Sets standards for training and allows the schools and DOE to establish higher standards. Requires schools to have written permission from a parent in advance before administering seizure drugs and to collaborate with a parent on a seizure action plan. Requires schools to maintain seizure action plans and to distribute information on the plans to school personnel. Requires the DOE to develop information on seizure action plans for the guidance of schools. Includes immunity provisions for good faith actions. | Sorenson | 2/21/23 | |
| HF380 | Phases in an increase for the amount of the supplemental funding for schools to use for drop-out prevention programs to 5% by 2027. | Sorenson | 2/21/23 | |
| HF381 | Increases funding for pre-school enrollment by making the formula 100% of the actual enrollment. | Sorenson | 2/21/23 | |
| HF383 | Requires school boards to appoint a least one non-voting student member from at least grade 11. Lets the student sit in on meetings and review non-confidential information. | Sorenson | 2/21/23 | |
| HF389 | Establishes an Agriculture Education Grant program in the DOE to help high schools pay for the cost of agriculture education teachers. Allows 100% of the grant to be used for teachers for programs that are less than 10 years old and 50% of the grant for other programs. Requires the DOE to develop a system for schools to track the time used by teachers under the grant. Requires the state BOE to adopt rules for the program. | Ingels & Latham | 2/22/23 | |
| HF390 | Deems that PE classes do not count towards the daily 30 minutes of physical activity for K-5 students. Requires that the 30 minutes be consecutive and includes exceptions. | Ehlert | 2/22/23 | |
| HF391 | Deems that a diploma earned by a home-schooled (private instruction) student shall be sufficient to show that the student has earned a HS diploma. Prohibits state and local governments or the Regents from discriminating against such diplomas. Deems that a parent has the authority to execute any document verifying such instruction and grades. | Gustoff | 2/22/23 | |
| HF392 | Requires public and private schools that do not compete in an interscholastic activity to reach an agreement with another school to allow students to compete in that activity. Does not change the authority of a HS association to deny such an agreement if it would substantially prejudice the activities of other schools. | Gustoff | 2/22/23 | |
| HF393 | Allows private schools to withdraw applications for accreditation or to terminate accreditation. Requires the DOE to stop all accreditation monitoring on receiving written notice. | Gustoff | 2/22/23 | |
| HF395 | Requires the operator of a water system to test 20% of the schools and childcare facilities that use the system for lead and copper in the water, and all the schools and childcare facilities over a five-year period. Requires the results be given to the schools and childcare facilities, with information on reducing copper and lead in the water. Requires annual reports to the HHS, DNR and local boards of health. Requires the water system to compile a list of schools and child care facilities and to contact them annually about the risks of copper and lead in water. | Isenhart | 2/22/23 | |
| HF402 | Prohibits public and private schools from using nicknames or mascots thought to be derogatory towards Native American tribes. Exempt tribal schools. | Kurth | 2/22/23 | |
| HF409 (HF196) | Requires school board meetings to include at least 30 minutes for public comment. Allows a time limit to be imposed if necessary due to the number of persons signed up to speak. | Committee on Local Government | 2/22/23 | |
| HF413 | Appropriates $2.5 million to the DOE for a school counselor grant program for FY 24. Includes criteria and limits school districts to applying to two grants. | Rinker | 2/22/23 | |
| HF421 (HF186) | Makes an accredited private university (Waldorf University) that was purchased in 2010 by a for-profit school and then sold to an Iowa non-profit in December 2022 eligible for Iowa tuition grants from December 2022 to June 2023. | Committee on Education | 2/22/23 | |
| HF427 (HSB91) | Relating to the health and well-being of children and families including provisions for regional centers of excellence, a state-funded family medicine obstetrical fellowship program, self-administered hormonal contraceptives, maternal support and fatherhood initiatives, adoption expenses under the adoption subsidy program, and accessibility to the all Iowa scholarship program. | Committee on Health and Human Services | 2/27/23 | |
| HF429 (HF17) | Allows a parent to enroll their child at another school in the school district if the school board reasonably believes that another student or school employee or contractor has harassed or bullied the student. Requires the parent to make a request to the school board. Authorizes the school board to adopt policies to allow the school supervisor to approve requests. Makes the requests for a period of at least a year. Requires the new school have appropriate special education programs for the student. Requires that students who have been suspended or expelled be reinstated before a transfer is allowed. Makes the student eligible to compete in athletics if the student transfers to another school in the district. Requires teacher to notify parents if the teacher witnesses a student being injured, harassed or bullied. | Committee on Education | 2/27/23 | |
| HF430 (HF10) | Requires mandatory reporters to report abuse of children over the age of 12. Requires school employees over the age of 18 to report on cases of abuse. Requires the DOE to develop for reporting on and investigating a school employee with an authorization, license or certification who may have committed certain felonies or acts. Establishes immunity for the school board or school authorities for discussing such incidents. Requires the BEE to assess civil penalties of up to $5,000 against administrators for failures to follow the established process or for concealing an incident. Requires the BEE to finalize the investigation of complaints. Includes additional grounds for the BEE to disqualify applicants or to revoke licenses. Requires the BEE to notify schools about investigations and to investigate administrators. Requires schools to contact the BEE about potential hires to determine if the person has been the subject of a complaint or investigation. BEE: Ends the terms of the BBE members as of the effective date of the bill. Sets the membership of the board at six members who are parents of current or recently-enrolled students and five practitioner members, including one special education teacher and one administrator. Sets a schedule for the terms of newly-appointed members from the Governor. | Committee on Education | 2/27/23 | |
| HF437 | Requires school boards to appoint at least student to serve as a liaison between the board, administrators, teachers and student. Requires the liaison be allowed to sit in on meetings and to have access to non-confidential material. Requires boards to develop a selection process. | Steckman | 2/27/23 | |
| HF438 | Requires in joint custody cases that the court consider the educational setting of the child if the parents are in disagreement about the setting. Creates a rebuttable presumption that it is in the best interest of the child to remain in the current setting. Requires a parent with legal custody to give the school a copy of the court order on educational setting. | Gustoff | 2/27/23 | |
| HF447 (HF6) | Establishes the Iowa Workforce Grant & Incentive Program in the CSC. Grants: Allows eligible students to receive grants for up to three semesters, and for part-time students to receive grants for up to six semesters. Caps grants at $2,500 a semester. Sets priority for persons who previously received the grants and those with the least ability to pay. Requires repayment if a student drops out before the end of the semester. Incentives: Allows a recipient who begins employment in a related field to apply for a one-time incentive payment of $2,500. Other: Establishes a fund and makes the program subject to appropriation. | Committee on Appropriations | 2/27/23 | |
| HF452 | Defines spending to protect a school against cyber-attacks as infrastructure for SAVE. | Sorensen | 2/27/23 | |
| HF453 | Requires kindergarten classes to incorporate school learning centers that use different materials and activities to support the goals of the center. | Ehlert | 2/27/23 | |
| HF454 | Includes requirements for public school administrators, including superintendents and assistant superintendents, to teach classes. Includes requirements based on the number of schools in the district and requirements for the class hours for such instruction. | Henderson & others | 2/27/23 | |
| HF455 | Adds political affiliation and vaccination status as protected classes under the Civil Rights Act. | Andrews | 2/27/23 | |
| HF456 | Authorizes the DOT to designate third-party testers for driver’s licenses. | Hayes | 2/27/23 | |
| HF459 (HSB169) | Strikes the future reduction in weighting for operational sharing and extends the current weighting until the program ends. | Committee on Education | 2/27/23 | |
| HF464 (HF283) | Strikes requirements that a parent of a home-schooled child (competent private instruction) give proof to a school district that the child has been immunized and had a blood lead test. Requires the name and age of a child in addition to the course of study for a home-schooled child to the school district. Strikes the definition of an outline of the course of study. Requires instruction that is appropriate to the age of the child for home-school study and strikes requirements that the child be related to the primary instructor. Strikes limits on the number of unrelated children and the requirement to not charge tuition in the definition of independent private instruction. Deems such instruction not to be an accredited non-public school. | Committee on Education | 2/27/23 | |
| HF477 | Requires the DOE to establish a work group to study the methodology used to determine student poverty and funding for students from low-income homes. Sets the membership of the group and requires the DOE to give staffing assistance. Requires recommendations by 1/24. | Matson & others | 2/27/23 | |
| HF480 | Requires HS human growth & development (sex ed) courses include instruction on contraceptive methods, including condoms, implanted devices and intrauterine devices. | Staed & others | 2/28/23 | |
| HF481 | Establishes an Army Reserve scholarship program in the CSC for undergraduate degrees. Establishes criteria for Reserve members to receive scholarships. Caps the scholarship at the resident tuition rate for state universities and allows the CSC to lower the amount, depending on funding. Limits the payments to 120 credit hours, or 130 for some STEM programs. | Latham | 2/28/23 | |
| HF482 | Requires public and private K-12 schools to prohibit the use of a multi-occupant bathroom by more than one sex. Prohibits persons from entering a school bathroom for the other biological sex and exempts the bill from the provisions of the Iowa Civil Rights Act. | Hayes | 2/28/23 | |
| HF500 | Requires the DOE to convene a working group with the BEE on the need for diversity and cultural competency training. Requires a report by December 2023. | Gaines & others | 2/28/23 | |
| HF513 | Disability education: Requires kindergarten programs and 1-8 social studies curriculum to include age-appropriate and research-based information for instruction on persons with disabilities. Requires the state BOE to adopt rules after consultation with teachers and parents. Bullying: Requires schools to develop anti-bullying and harassment programs and requires the effect of bullying through social media to be considered. | Turek | 3/1/23 | |
| HF516 | Sets the minimum wage for education support professionals at $17. Makes definitions. | Cahill | 3/1/23 | |
| HF527 | Increases the appropriation for high need HS to $20 million and sets priorities for distribution. | Cahill | 3/1/23 | |
| HF534 | Appropriates $36.485 million in FY 2024 to public schools for supplemental payments. Sets a formula for distribution based on enrollment. | Wood & others | 3/1/23 | |
| HF535 | Deems that if a student drops out for a second time, after returning to school, that the second dropout will not affect the school’s performance grade. | Wood | 3/1/23 | |
| HF540 (HF295) | Strikes requirements for counties to consider buying or leasing vacant school buildings before building or leasing a new facility. | Committee on Local Government | 3/1/23 | |
| HF558 | Appropriates $1.925 million for a local farm produce program to help schools purchase produce from local farms. | Isenhart | 3/2/23 | |
| HF559 (HF389) | Establishes an Agriculture Education Grant program in the DOE to help high schools pay for the cost of agriculture education teachers. Allows 100% of the grant to be used for teachers for programs that are less than 10 years old and 50% of the grant for other programs. Requires the DOE to develop a system for schools to track the time used by teachers under the grant. Requires the state BOE to adopt rules for the program. | Committee on Agriculture | 3/2/23 | |
| HF560 | Appropriates $2 million in FY 2024 to the DOE for payments to community colleges for concurrent enrollment for private school students. Allows remaining money to be used for summer classes. | Siegrist | 3/2/23 | |
| HF563 | Directs the DOE to convene a work group on the effectiveness of K-3 reading proficiency programs. Requires a report to the Legislature by December 2023. | Siegrist | 3/2/23 | |
| HF575 | Requires public and charter schools to offer a free breakfast and lunch to all students. Requires the DOE }to calculate the difference between the amounts received by the school for federal free and reduced-cost lunches and establishes a standing appropriation to pay for the state cost. | 3/2/23 | ||
| HF597 (HSB219) | Education: Requires education programs from the state BOE be age appropriate. Deems that any material with a visual or written description of a sex act to not be age-appropriate, but excludes human growth & development (sex ed) classes. Libraries: Requires schools to establish a K-12 library program to ensure only age-appropriate material in the library. Requires a qualified teacher librarian to direct the program in each attendance center. Includes regular reviews of the program. | Scheetz & others | 3/2/23 | |
| HF602 (HF101) | Requires public school 7-12 ID cards to include the Your Iowa Crisis telephone and text numbers. Allows schools that issue cards to grades 5-6 to do so as well. Applies to IDs issued after the effective date of the bill but allows schools to use of existing IDs until that supply is exhausted. | Committee on Transportation | 3/3/23 | |
| HF604 (HSB206) | Authorizes the Ombudsman to investigate complaints about persons who have a license or registration from the BEE. Includes confidentiality requirements. PD: Requires that if a school requires participation in a particular professional development program to notify the affected employees of the Code section or rules that require participation in the program. Punishment: Requires schools to give employees a copy of the Code section on corporal punishment when a contract is renewed. Notice/Reports: Requires teacher to notify parents by phone within 24 hours of witnessing a student suffering a bodily injury. Prohibits schools from taking disciplinary action against employees or contractors for reports to law enforcement about a violation of law, gross mismanagement or abuse of funds or substantial dangers. Discipline: Allows a teacher, with the supervision of a school resource officer or administrator to remove a disruptive student from class. Includes counseling requirements. Requires the student to be expelled from the class after a 3rd offense and to not receive credit for the course if in HS. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF606 (HF393) | Deems that a diploma earned by a home-schooled (private instruction) student shall be sufficient to show that the student has earned a HS diploma. Prohibits state and local governments or the Regents from discriminating against such diplomas. Deems that a parent has the authority to execute any document verifying such instruction and grades. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF608 (HF379) | Requires public and private schools to have at least one employee trained in administering seizure medications by the 2024-25 school year. Deems that a school nurse meets these requirements. Requires school personnel to be trained to recognize seizures, to be trained in first aid and to have biennial training. Sets standards for training and allows the schools and DOE to establish higher standards. Requires schools to have written permission from a parent before administering seizure drugs and to collaborate with a parent on a seizure action plan. Requires schools to maintain seizure action plans and to distribute information on the plans to school personnel. Requires the DOE to develop information on seizure action plans for the guidance of schools. Includes immunity provisions for good faith actions. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF610 (HF285) | Requires public schools to have policies excusing the absences of a student for treatments related to autism and autism spectrum disorders. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF611 (HF390) | Deems that PE classes do not count towards the daily 30 minutes of physical activity for K-5 students. Requires that the 30 minutes be consecutive and includes exceptions. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF614 (HF221) | Specifies some of the required equivalents to be used by the BEE in licensing out-of-state applicants. Includes all license holders who move to the state under exceptions for certain professions that allow military members/spouses to be licensed without examination. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF615 (HF391) | Deems that a diploma earned by a home-schooled (private instruction) student shall be sufficient to show that the student has earned a HS diploma. Prohibits state and local governments or the Regents from discriminating against such diplomas. Deems that a parent has the authority to execute any document verifying such instruction and grades. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF616 (HSB218) | Prohibits diversity, equity or inclusion offices at the state universities. Prohibits spending from any source on such matters. Prohibits state universities from spending any state money in FY 2024 until the universities certify compliance. Authorizes the AG to bring enforcement actions and for students, faculty and alums to seek injunctive relief . Requires that any money that would be spent on diversity to be spent on merit scholarships for low-income students. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF620 (HF367) | Prohibits schools and charter schools from taking disciplinary action against employees, students or contractors for the use of a legal name or the failure to use the preferred pronoun of a student or for the failure to list a preferred pronoun in the signature block. Allows a fired employee to initiate a civil action for reinstatement, treble back pay, attorney fees and costs. | Committee on Education | 3/3/23 | |
| HF622 (HSB208) | Allows public schools to designate a bathroom or changing room for only one biological sex. Allows the sex on a birth certificate to be relied on if issued at the time of birth. Allows for accommodations to be made on request, including that the use of a single-occupancy facility. Deems that any policies that result from the bill are not a violation of the civil rights act. Actions: Establishes a private cause of action for denying an accommodation without proving undue hardship, if a person encounters a person of the wrong sex in a designated facility or for requiring someone to share sleeping quarters with a person of the opposite sex. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/3/23 | |
| HF623 (HSB214) | Prohibits gender affirming surgery or other practices, including hormonal treatment, for minors. Prohibits a health care practitioner from aiding or abetting in prohibited practices. Includes exceptions for some medically verifiable conditions. Makes violations subject to license discipline. Actions: Allows a person to assert and actual or threatened violation of the bill and to obtain damages. Sets an SOL for such actions (20 years after reaching majority) but does not require the exhaustion of administrative relief. Allows the prevailing party to recover attorney fees. Allows the AG to enforce provisions of the bill. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/3/23 | |
| HF632 (HF452) | Defines spending to protect a school against cyber-attacks as infrastructure spending for SAVE. | Committee on Economic Growth and Technology | 3/6/23 | |
| HF636 (HF438) | Requires in joint custody cases that the court consider the educational setting of the child if the parents are in disagreement about the setting. Creates a rebuttable presumption that it is in the best interest of the child to remain in the current setting. Requires the custody order to detail the requirements of each parent under the order. Requires a parent with legal custody to give the school a copy of the court order on educational setting. | Committee on Judiciary | 3/6/23 | |
| HF639 (HSB82) | Establishes an Office of Apprenticeship and an Iowa Apprenticeship Council in the DWD. Gives the Office various duties related to the registration of apprenticeships. Establishes the members of the Council, including the DWD director as an ex officio member. Other: Requires licensing authorities to grant licenses to persons who have successfully completed apprenticeship programs. Prohibits exams for apprentices that are different than the exam for other applicants. Divides training and administration responsibilities between sponsors of programs and employers. | Committee on Economic Growth and Technology | 3/6/23 | |
| HF647 (HSB134) | Makes changes related to child labor, including striking permits for child/minor child labor, striking some exceptions allowing children under 14 to engage in street work, and on work that can be performed between 14-17. Allows the Labor Commissioner to waive civil penalties. Allows the DWD or the DOE to grant exemptions for students for school-based work. Requires written permission from a parent. Deems that businesses which offer student work-based positions are not liable for specified claims under negligence except under worker’s comp. Alcohol: Allows a 16/17-year-old to serve alcohol with written permission. Driving: Allows a minor with a special instruction permit to drive between work and school but limits the distance to 50 miles. Requires an affidavit from an employer and the parent. Strikes the distance a student lives from a school as a criteria when considering the necessity. | Committee on Commerce | 3/7/23 | |
| HF654 (HSB173) | DOC: Excludes guns and ammo carried in a locked trunk in a car parked in a public lot from prohibitions on carrying contraband unto DOC facilities. Work: Bars employers from prohibiting employers from carrying guns and ammo in a locked car trunk. Makes the employer immune from any claim arising from such guns. Schools: Allows a school to authorize an employee to carry guns and ammo in a school vehicle. Authorizes a person with a valid carry permit who is making a delivery, or picking up or dropping off a person, to have a concealed gun but requires the gun remain in the vehicle and that the vehicle remain in specific parts of the school parking areas. Allows a retired peace officer to carry a gun on school grounds if the peace officer retired in good standing and has maintained certification and standards for handling guns. Colleges: Prohibits the regent universities and community colleges from prohibiting carrying dangerous weapons in vehicles if the weapon is not visible outside the vehicle, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Includes guns, various knives and tasers as dangerous weapons. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules to prohibit insurance companies from denying insurance to a school solely because of someone lawfully carrying a gun. Cars: Repeals certain prohibitions against carrying guns in cars. | Committee on Public Safety | 3/7/23 | |
| HF658 (HF437) | Requires school boards to appoint at least student to serve as a liaison between the board, administrators, teachers and student, if the applicant meets requirements. Requires the liaison be allowed to sit in on meetings and to have access to non-confidential material. Requires boards to develop a selection process. | Committee on Education | 3/7/23 | |
| HF662 (HSB126) | Enacts provisions to reorganize all of state government. Reduces the number of cabinet level agencies from 37 to 16. Reduces the votes needed in the Senate to confirm to 30 and increases the positions which are appointed by the Governor. Removes many administrators from the salary range. Gives the AG authority over election misconduct and allows the AG to prosecute crimes even if the county attorney declines. | Committee on State Government | 3/10/23 | |
| HF667 (HSB229) | Requires the state universities to reimburse any settlement amounts paid out of the state treasury for claims against the athletic department. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/14/23 | |
| HF672 (HF355, HF224) | Requires the BoEE to perform criminal background checks every five years for practitioners who are not subject to other license renewal requirements. Exempts teachers who hold a masters or doctoral degree and who have taught for ten years from license renewal requirements unless the teacher holds an evaluator endorsement. Applies various provisions requiring schools to do background criminal checks on teachers and school employees, and continue to allow charges to teachers but not school employees for the checks to private schools and charter schools. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/20/23 | |
| HF692 | Makes findings regarding brain health. Defines brain health and uses it as a synonym with MH/MI in order to reduce the stigma of those diseases. Requires schools to have a brain health professional on staff. Establishes a standing appropriation. Includes other implementing provisions. | Isenhart & Others | 4/6/23 | |
| HF706 (HF339, HF153) | Establishes a fund for the demolition of vacant school buildings in the EDA. Requires the school to have been vacant prior to July, 2021. Sets timelines for acquisition of buildings. Requires that applications from small towns be prioritized. Requires proceeds from the sale of the property after demolition, except for certain costs, be returned to the fund but does not require that the property be sold. Allows the EDA to use 5% of the fund for administration and to report annually. Contingent on an appropriation. | Committee on Appropriations | 4/10/23 | |
| HF718 (HF1) | School Taxes: Reduces the school foundation property tax levy by $1 per $1,000 from the regular $5.40, and from $4.90/$4.40 for the rates for reorganizing school districts. Makes adjustments to property tax credits. Effective on enactment. | Committee on Ways and Means | 4/17/23 | |
| HF725 (HSB249) | Makes the FY 2024 GF appropriations for DCA, EDA, IFA, PERB, DWD & Regents. Makes changes to apprenticeship programs. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/2/23 | |
| HF729 (HSB252) | Reduces the standings for the instructional support state aid and AEAs. Authorizes salary adjustment measures as determined by the DOM. Changes the distribution of the ending balance to the EEF for FY 2023. Makes corrections. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/3/23 | |
| HF731 (HSB254) | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the DOE, the DOB and the Regents. Includes limits on standing appropriations. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/3/23 | |
House Study Bills
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSB1 | ESA: Creates the Students First Act. Establishes education scholarships for K-12 students that can be used to pay private schools. Phases the scholarships in over three years, based on family income. Establishes a fund controlled by the DOE make payments into the ESA. Allows unspent money in an ESA to be retained until graduation or the student is 20. Allows the DOM to contract with a 3rd-party to manage the fund. Excludes the scholarships from the income tax. Spending: Allows funds appropriated to schools under various programs to be used for teacher salaries. | Governor Bill | 1/10/23 |
| HSB9 | Strikes the current MH practitioner loan repayment program and establishes a new program in the CSC. Requires MH practitioners to practice in service commitment areas and enters into the agreement during the final year of school. Establishes priorities for Iowa residents. | Meyer | 1/11/23 |
| HSB14 | Establishes a cyber-security simulation training center at ISU to help governments and business deal with cyber-attacks. | Sorensen | 1/12/23 |
| HSB26 | Allows persons who are qualified to give behind-the-wheel driving instruction but who are not licensed teachers to administer a final field driving test. | Department of Transportation | 1/12/23 |
| HSB28 | Strikes the current list of third-party CDL testers and authorizes the DOT to adopt rules restricting the scope of third-party testers. | Department of Transportation | 1/12/23 |
| HSB41 | Prohibits the Regents from investing in companies controlled by the Chinese military or Chinese government. Makes definitions. Requires the sale of assets in prohibited companies within 180 days of the company becoming a prohibited company. Requires the creation and maintenance of a list of scrutinized companies. Includes other provisions. | Wheeler | 1/18/23 |
| HSB47 | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for MH practitioners using the MH loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a MH practitioner who fails to fulfill service obligations. Establishes provisions for proportional payments for part-time practitioners. | College Student Aid Commission | 1/18/23 |
| HSB48 | Requires the CSC to make loan repayments for doctors using the rural primary care loan repayment program at the end of each year. Prohibits the CSC from making further payments for a doctor who fails to fulfill service obligations. Effective for loan repayments on enactment. | College Student Aid Commission | 1/18/23 |
| HSB55 | Gives a probationer a discharge credit for each month the person successfully completes the terms of probation, an education credit for earning various degrees/certificates and workforce credit for each six-month period the probationer works 30 hours a week. | Thompson | 1/19/23 |
| HSB58 | Strikes the farm work exception that authorizes minors with a special permit to drive for farm work. | Wheeler | 1/20/23 |
| HSB63 | Graduates: Establishes a new graduate income tax credit for a person within two years of graduating from a university, college, community college or an apprenticeship program in the state. Allows the credit to be claimed for four years after graduation and makes the credit equal to 100% of the income tax owed. Requires the graduate to be under 30 when first claiming the credit and requires that the graduate not receive any public assistance. | Committee on Ways and Means | 1/20/23 |
| HSB82 | Establishes an Office of Apprenticeship and an Iowa Apprenticeship Council in the DWD. Gives the Office various duties related to the registration of apprenticeships. Establishes the members of the Council, including the DWD director as an ex officio member. Other: Requires licensing authorities to grant licenses to persons who have successfully completed apprenticeship programs. Prohibits exams for apprentices that are different than the exam for other applicants. Divides training and administration responsibilities between sponsors of apprenticeship programs and employers. | Governor Bill | 1/26/23 |
| HSB86 | Allows a minor with a special driver license to travel to a grandparent’s house, if within 50 miles and authorized by the school. | Committee on Transportation | 1/26/23 |
| HSB89 | Requires coaches to do a concussion training course to renew an authorization. | Committee on Education | 1/26/23 |
| HSB90 | Reduces the number of hours for cosmetology training to 1,000 hours. | Committee on Education | 1/26/23 |
| HSB111 | Authorizes school boards to pay student teachers at an amount equal to the lowest salary the district pays teachers. Allows school boards to require the student teacher to agree to work for the school for up to five years and allows the schools to require repayment. | Committee on Education | 1/30/23 |
| HSB112 | Requires the DOE to notify a school if a school employee or contractor has violated provisions against scapegoating. Requires the DOE to give the school 14 days to correct the violation before assessing a civil penalty ($500 to $5,000). Requires the BEE to notify the DOE if a license, certificate or authorization holder has violated these provisions. Requires the DOE to make a complaint form available to parents and students on the internet. | Committee on Education | 1/30/23 |
| HSB117 | Establishes an SSA and a Categorical Growth rate of 3% for the 2023-24 school year. | Committee on Education | 1/30/23 |
| HSB118 | Notice: Allows notice of bond sales to be published electronically instead of in newspapers and sets requirements. Schools: Allows for the notice of the intent to fill a school board vacancy by appointment to be published electronically instead of in a newspaper. Authorizes the use of electronic signatures in specific cases. Strikes deeming persons working towards compliance with teacher librarian requirements as being in compliance. Allows schools to charge employees for the cost of registry checks. School Health: Strikes requirements for Regent schools, community colleges and schools to evaluate and implement environmentally friendly cleaning procedures. Strikes the goal that schools have a nurse for every 700 students and authorizes schools to have school nurses. Strikes requirements for Pre-K/K students be given a vision card. Requires the DOE to convene a health group. Infrastructure: Strikes requirements for revenue purpose statements. Requires a re-organizing school without a revenue purpose statement to first use funds to pay off outstanding bonds. Expands the definition of infrastructure to include additional buildings. Exempts refinancing bonds from certain notice/hearing requirements. Bonds: Allows schools to issue bonds without election and to use SAVE funds to secure repayment. 28E: Allows schools to enter into 28E agreements. Conference Boards: Strikes the requirement that representatives for school boards be appointed to county conference boards. Children facilities: Requires residential treatment facilities to give to the district of residence for the child documentation to obtain Medicaid reimbursements. AEA: Allows notice of a hearing for the AEA budget to be published electronically rather than in a newspaper. Elections: Gives an election commissioner with discretionary authority the power to hold a special election on the same day as another election. | Committee on Education | 1/31/23 |
| HSB119 | Eliminates the Comprehensive School Improvement plan. Librarians: Allows schools to hire someone previously employed by a public library without being licensed by the BEE. Prohibits the BEE from requiring teacher librarian applicants to have an MLS. Strikes certain exceptions for media specialists. Counseling: Requires that a K-12 guidance program be designed to allow the counselor to work collaboratively with students, staff and others. Internet Instruction: Prohibits more than 5 days (30 hours) of school instruction time to be counted towards instruction hour/days requirements. CC: Strikes certain conditions on community colleges offering science and math classes to HS students and allows any cc to offer these classes. Sequential Instruction: Allows a cc teacher or a licensed teacher to teach two sequential units of the same subject in the same classroom. Includes requirements. Standards: Strikes the requirement for a technology literacy standard. Strikes standards for pre-kindergarten instruction on the family in relation to the child. Requires pre-kindergarten programs to encourage co-operation between home and school and focus on community resources. Requires 7-8 career exploration requirements to include skills to facilitate career development. Reduces the requirements for world language to two units. Reduces fine arts requirements to two units. Allows all HS students to use certain current exceptions to taking PE course. Strikes required instruction on AIDS, CPR and financial literacy but allows schools to offer CPR. Strikes requirements for students to know CPR. Operational Sharing: Extends operational sharing until 2035 | Governor Bill | 1/31/23 |
| HSB126 | Enacts provisions to reorganize all of state government. | Committee on State Government | 2/1/23 |
| HSB138 | Strikes the requirement for students using ESAs to take assessments required by the state. | Committee on Education | 2/8/23 |
| HSB144 | Requires the custodian of a public record, in response to a request, to promptly give contact information, a date for the record release and an estimate of reasonable costs. | Iowa Public Information Board | 2/8/23 |
| HSB169 | Strikes the future reduction in weighting for operational sharing and extends the current weighting until the program ends. | Committee on Education | 2/15/23 |
| HSB173 | DOC: Excludes guns and ammo carried in a locked trunk in a car parked in a public lot from prohibitions on carrying contraband unto DOC facilities. Work: Bars employers from prohibiting employers from carrying guns and ammo in a locked car trunk. Makes the employer immune from any claim arising from such guns. Schools: Allows a school to authorize an employee to carry guns and ammo in a school vehicle. Authorizes a person with a valid carry permit who is making a delivery, or picking up or dropping off a person, to have a concealed gun but requires the gun remain in the vehicle and that the vehicle remain in specific parts of the school parking areas. Allows a retired peace officer to carry a gun on school grounds if the peace officer retired in good standing and has maintained certification and standards for handling guns. Colleges: Prohibits the regent universities and community colleges from prohibiting carrying dangerous weapons in vehicles if the weapon is not visible outside the vehicle, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Includes guns, various knives and tasers as dangerous weapons. Requires the Insurance Commissioner to adopt rules to prohibit insurance companies from denying insurance to a school solely because of someone lawfully carrying a gun. Cars: Repeals certain prohibitions against carrying guns in cars. | Committee on Public Safety | 2/16/23 |
| HSB206 | Authorizes the Ombudsman to investigate complaints about persons who have a license or registration from the BEE. Includes confidentiality requirements. PD: Requires that if a school requires participation in a particular professional development program to notify the affected employees of the Code section or rules that require participation in the program. Punishment: Requires schools to give employees a copy of the Code section on corporal punishment when a contract is renewed. Notice/Reports: Requires teacher to notify parents by phone within 24 hours of witnessing a student suffering a bodily injury. Prohibits schools from taking disciplinary action against employees or contractors for reports to law enforcement about a violation of law, gross mismanagement or abuse of funds or substantial dangers. Discipline: Allows a teacher, with the supervision of a school resource officer or administrator to remove a disruptive student from class. Includes counseling requirements. Requires the student to be expelled from the class after a 3rd offense and to not receive credit for the course if in HS. | Committee on Education | 2/27/23 |
| HSB208 | Allows public schools to designate a bathroom or changing room for only one biological sex. Allows the sex on a birth certificate to be relied on if issued at the time of birth. Allows for accommodations to be made on request, including that the use of a single-occupancy facility. Deems that any policies that result from the bill are not a violation of the civil rights act. Actions: Establishes a private cause of action for denying an accommodation without proving undue hardship, if a person encounters a person of the wrong sex in a designated facility or for requiring someone to share sleeping quarters with a person of the opposite sex. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/27/23 |
| HSB218 | Prohibits diversity or inclusion offices at the state universities. Prohibits spending from any source on such matters. Prohibits state universities from spending any state money in FY 2024 until the universities certify compliance. Authorizes the AG to bring enforcement actions. Requires that any money that would be spent on diversity to be spent on merit scholarships for low-income students. | Committee on Education | 2/28/23 |
| HSB219 | Education: Requires education programs from the state BOE be age-appropriate. Deems that any material with a visual or written description of a sex act to not be age-appropriate, but excludes human growth & development (sex ed) classes. Libraries: Requires schools to establish a K-12 library program to ensure only age-appropriate material in the library. Requires a qualified teacher librarian to direct the program in each attendance center. Includes regular reviews of the program. | Committee on Education | 2/28/23 |
| HSB222 | Sex Ed: Prohibits instruction on gender identify or sexual activity in grades K-3. Strikes required instruction on AIDS in Human Growth & Development (Sex Ed) courses and on HPV for grades 7-12. Requires sex ed to be age-appropriate and evidence-based in the kindergarten project. Civics: Requires the use of the US citizenship test in HS civics courses and that results be submitted to the DOE. Requires students to score 70% or to retake the test. Emotional Learning: Prohibits surveys on emotional learning or on physical health that are not required under law, unless the parent or guardian agree. Requires written notice of such surveys. Books: Requires schools to publish a list of the material used in class, lists of persons with student contact, books available in the library and procedures to request removal of materials. Requires the school to notify the DOE of the removal of a book and for the DOE to maintain a removal list. Requires the parents of a minor child in other districts give written consent before a child can check out a schoolbook on the removal list. Gender ID: Requires schools to report to parents if a child expresses a different gender identity, unless the school believes the report will lead to child abuse. Requires the school to then report to HHS instead for potential action. Other: Allows parents to review all school records on a child. Prohibits school districts from any activity involving obscene material or sexually explicit material. Includes civil penalties for schools. Deems the parent as ultimately responsible for decisions affecting medical care, moral upbringing, religion, residence, and extracurriculars. | Proposed Governor Bill | 2/28/23 |
| HSB249 | Makes the FY 2024 GF appropriations for DCA, EDA, IFA, PERB, DWD & Regents. Makes changes to apprenticeship programs. | Committee on Appropriations | 4/28/23 |
| HSB252 | Reduces the standings for the instructional support state aid and AEAs. Authorizes salary adjustment measures as determined by the DOM. Changes the distribution of the ending balance to the EEF for FY 2023. Makes corrections. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/2/23 |
| HSB254 | Makes the FY 2024 appropriations for the DOE, the DOB and the Regents. Includes limits on standing appropriations. | Committee on Appropriations | 5/2/23 |
House Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR8 | Designates February 28, 2023 as Community College Day. | Mohr & others | 2/23/23 |
| HR10 | Recognizes March 3rd as National Speech and Debate Education Day | Konfrst & Wood | 2/28/23 |
| HR15 | A resolution honoring the responders to the March 7, 2022, East High School shooting. | Gaines | 4/4/23 |
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| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SF 128 | Establishing an education savings grant program for certain pupils attending a nonpublic school, establishing an education savings grant fund, providing an income tax exemption, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including applicability provisions. | Carlin | 1/13/22 |
| SF 233, SF67 | Regarding driving privileges of persons issued a special minor’s driver’s license who attend a public school, and making penalties applicable. | Committee on Transportation | 1/14/22 |
| SF 310 | Relating to the establishment of a transitional bilingual education pilot program. | Carlin & 6 Others | 1/13/22 |
| SF 545, SF 452 | Establishing a learning recovery task force. | Cournoyer | 1/13/22 |
| SF 2003, HF2008 | Certain amounts of school district funding for programs for at-risk students, secondary students who attend alternative programs or alternative schools, or returning dropouts and dropout prevention, and including effective date provisions. | Cournoyer | 1/12/22 |
| SF 2012 | Prohibits labor commissioner from enforcing federal OSHA requirements regarding vaccination status, testing and testing results, and determining whether an individual has had COVID. | Nunn | 1/13/22 |
| SF 2017 | Requires the State Registrar of Elections (Secretary of State) to use electronic driver’s license records to register voters. Requires the DOT to submit such records to SOS. Requires county commissioners (auditors) to review the records. Allows a person to decline to be registered to vote. Establishes notification and other related requirements. | Jochum & 9 Others | 1/13/22 |
| SF 2020 | Requires that period products (tampons and pads) be made available in the restrooms of state buildings at no charge. | Petersen | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2024 | Does not allow the school curriculum for grades 1-6 to include gender identity. Allows parents to opt out of this prohibition for the child through written consent. Allows the child to opt out of such instruction. | Carlin | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2025 | Requires schools to designate multi-occupant toilets for one sex. Prohibits someone of a different biological sex from using a bathroom designated for the other biological sex. | Carlin | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2026 | Raises the amounts for the Iowa Scholar Program ($7,500 a year, $37,500 total). Makes the priority list: 1) renewals, 2) graduates of approved teacher preparation programs, 3) minorities, 4) Iowans. | Carlin | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2037 | Prohibits school administrators from allowing race or sex scapegoating, or related concepts, to be taught. Establishes penalties for violations, including suspension without pay. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2039 | Requires schools to prohibit school-sponsored events that are open only to members of a particular race or that limit participation or assess outcomes based on race. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2040 | Prohibits collecting student data on race, religion or national origin from charter schools, except as required by federal law. Prohibits the charter schools from collecting such data, except as required by federal law. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2041 | Requires a parent, with joint or sole custody, who is relocating a child outside of the child’s school district to give 60-days’ notice to the court and non-relocating parent. Requires the court to determine if the relocation is in the best interest of the child, upon a motion from either parent. Allows the court to make changes to the custody order, based on the best interest determination. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2042 | Requires the state universities to offer an undergraduate program that does not require a student to complete general education courses or courses outside the student’s field of study | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2043 | Requires a K-12 to take the pledge of allegiance and to stand for the pledge unless the teacher has a documented disability. Prohibits teachers from speaking about the pledge to a student in a manner that can be understood to be unpatriotic or to politically influence the student. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2044 | Allows a school employee who is wrongfully accused of afflicting corporal punishment on a student to collect attorney’s fees if the employee prevails in a lawsuit. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2047 | Prohibits schools from paying fees to a HS extracurricular activity organization if the organization does not classify private schools one class higher than enrollment would require. Does not apply to private schools in the largest classes. | Dickey | 1/14/22 |
| SF 2059 | Exempts the homestead of a senior from certain school property taxes. Requires the senior to file for the exemption. Effective for tax years beginning in 2023. | Carlin | 1/19/22 |
| SF 2071 | Requires health and human growth curriculum (sex education) for K-6 to include instruction on identifying parts of the body and age-appropriate, research-based information on empathy and respecting personal boundaries. Requires the curriculum for 7-12 to include information on consent and on identifying sexually predatory behavior and unhealthy relationships. | Petersen | 1/19/22 |
| SF 2074 | Allows schools to request DOE approval to use SAVE funds for three school years for costs related to starting or expanding preschool programs. Requires the schools to demonstrate that there is not sufficient capacity in the area to serve children who are not English proficient or the number of students who qualify for free/reduced price lunches or if more than 15% of students are not reading proficiently. | Mathis | 1/19/22 |
| SF 2075 | Requires the Regents and school boards to require K-12 schools and universities that issue IDs to include the three-digit number suicide hotline number from DHS. Encourages private schools to do the same. | Mathis | 1/19/22 |
| SF 2077 | Provides for the automatic registration of eligible electors upon review of electronic records received from state agencies and including effective date provisions. | Mathis | 1/21/22 |
| SF 2079, SSB 3004 | Allows only the State Board of Health to require additional immunizations for daycare of K-12 students. Preempts local ordinances. Deems religious and medical exceptions apply to any immunization requirements from the State Board. | Committee on Education | 1/20/22 |
| SF 2080, SSB 3005 | Prohibits schools from doing invasive physical exams, or screenings not required by law, of students without written permission. Makes exceptions for emancipated minors, emergent care situations and child abuse assessments. | Committee on Education | 1/20/22 |
| SF 2081, SSB 3002 | Allows a recipient of a grant through the computer science professional development incentive fund to spend grant through September 30 of the subsequent fiscal year. | Committee on Education | 1/20/22 |
| SF 2086; SSB 3008 | Reduces the number of members of the Iowa Council on Homelessness to 11 voting public members and 8 non-voting agency directors. Requires the director of the DOE (or director's designee) to be a non-voting member. | Committee on State Government | 2/24/22 |
| SF 2094 | Addresses the educational setting (school) of a minor child during a child custody proceeding. | Zaun | 1/24/22 |
| SF 2128, SSB 3047 | Changes references from “limited English proficiency” to “English learner.” Makes changes to community college planning committees on hiring and developing staff. Makes changes on community college instructor qualifications and to community college accreditation. | Committee on Education | 1/27/22 |
| SF 2129, SSB 3046 | Makes part-time students eligible for Future Ready Last Dollar scholarships. | Committee on Education | 1/27/22 |
| SF 2130, SSB 3048 | Requires that tuition refunds from for-profit schools to Iowa residents meet certain Code standards. | Committee on Education | 1/27/22 |
| SF 2136 | Directs the State BOE to establish standards for courses on Hebrew scriptures and the Bible, in order to develop a cultural understanding. Prohibits teaching the courses in a way that violates religious neutrality. Allows the appropriate display of religious materials to the course. | Senate: Guth, J. Taylor, Green, and Johnson | 1/27/22 |
| SF 2149 | Increases the percentage of the preschool budget enrollment used to determine school aid, based on the number of preschool instruction hours offered by the school. Effective for the 2023-24 school year. | Quirmbach | 1/31/22 |
| SF 2150 | Appropriates $7.5 million for Vo-Tech grants and $13 million for Skilled Workforce grants in FY 2023. | J. Smith & 6 Others | 1/31/22 |
| SF 2151 | Makes the preschool budget enrollment used for funding 100% of the actual enrollment. Establishes an on-time funding adjustment. Effective for school year 2023-24. | J. Smith & 6 Others | 1/31/22 |
| SF 2154 | Requires 7-12 science classes to include science- on human (anthropogenic) climate change. | Bolkcom | 1/31/22 |
| SF 2163 | Appropriates $15 million for the DOE to establish a grant program for MH providers for schools in high-need areas. Requires the State BOE to consult with stakeholders on rules and requires that grants supplement and not supplant existing funding. | Mathis | 2/1/22 |
| SF 2195, SSB 3003 | Establishes mental health professional loan repayment program within the college student aid commission. | Committee on Education | 2/3/22 |
| SF 2197, SF 168 | Requires that the parents of children with disabilities who attend non-public schools and receive certain support services from by AEAs to agree to the provision of those services on at the non-public school, in addition to current requirements from the owner/custodian of the property for the non-public schools. | Committee on Education | 2/3/22 |
| SF 2199 | Allows the use of general revenues by a school for on-time preschool funding if the preschool enrollment exceeds the budget enrollment by more than 50%. Requires the school board to approve the use. | Trone Garriott | 2/4/22 |
| SF 2200 | Requires school boards to appoint a student to the board as a non-voting member and sets the terms for the student board member. | Trone Garriott | 2/4/22 |
| SF 2201 | Makes children who turn 5 between March 15 - September 15 eligible for the statewide preschool program and funding if the school enrolls such students. | Trone Garriott | 2/4/22 |
| SF 2204, SSB3090 | Sets the SSA/categorical growth rate at 2.25%. Changes the calculation for the regular per-pupil program cost to add $10 for one year (the 2022-23 school year). Changes the property tax replacement calculation. Increases the appropriation for transportation equity to the amount needed for full funding. | Committee on Education | 2/7/22 |
| SF 2205, SSB3079 | Creates a parental bill of rights in regard to school matters. | Committee on Education | 2/7/22 |
| SF 2221 | Appropriates $15 million for a class size reduction supplement to be shared by schools that had 18 students in class for the 2021-2022 school year for K-8 classes. Requires the schools use the funds to reduce class sizes. | Trone Garriott | 2/8/22 |
| SF 2238 | Requires candidates for city, school districts and merged area offices to be nominated by primary. Makes conforming changes. | Zaun | 2/9/22 |
| SF 2243 | Appropriates $1 million to the DOE for competitive grants for an experiential learning program and for schools to hire a coordinator for such programs. | Giddens & Dotzler | 2/9/22 |
| SF 2244 | Appropriates $5 million to the CSC for a loan repayment program for employees of non-profits. | Giddens | 2/9/22 |
| SF 2248 | Changes the calculation for school foundation aid to an amount equal to the difference between the amount of foundation property tax and the combined foundation base. | Rowley | 2/9/22 |
| SF 2263 | Exempts some gubernatorial appointees from Senate confirmation requirements. Allows the Senate to make a gubernatorial appointment subject to confirmation if 26 Senators request a vote. Requires the reasons for moving the confirmation to a vote to be printed in the Senate Journal. | Committee on State Government | 3/18/22 |
| SF 2266, SF2166 | Raises the amount a retired IPERS member can earn to $50,000. Raises the cap for the value of a contract for a school board member to $20,000. | Committee on State Government | 2/14/22 |
| SF 2273 | Appropriates an additional $2 million in FY 2022 to the CSC for the Future Ready Iowa Skilled Worker Last Dollar scholarship program. | J. Smith | 2/16/22 |
| SF 2274, SSB 3028 | Deems all of the records of the Iowa Public Broadcasting Board (videos, electronic storage, documents and other information) as public records subject to examination, unless otherwise confidential. Prohibits the assertion of intellectual property rights more than ten years after the record was created | Committee on State Government | 2/16/22 |
| SF 2290, SSB 3135 | Establishes a Dairy & Milk Innovation Program. Requires the EDA, in consultation with DALS, to administer the program. Creates a task force to look at establishing an artisanal dairy program at a community college or Regents school. | Committee on Agriculture | 2/16/22 |
| SF 2291 | Allows schools to use para-educators as substitute teachers, except for driver’s education, if the school makes a good-faith effort to find a qualified sub. Requires the para-educator to be paid the same rate as a regular substitute. Authorizes the BoEE to adopt rules. | Administrative Rules Review Committee | 2/16/22 |
| SF 2293; SSB 3024 | Changes references in regard to the duties of the Iowa Drug Policy Coordinator and increases the number of members on the advisory council to 17 | Committee on Judiciary | 2/17/22 |
| SF 2294; SSB 3110, HSB 680 | Makes the non-substantive Code Editor changes | Committee on Judiciary | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2295; SSB 3109, HSB 715 | Makes the statutory Code Editor corrections | Committee on Judiciary | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2306, SF 2239 | Prohibits high schools from charging admissions to persons under 18 to HS sports and other extracurricular activities. Excludes post-season and state tournaments. | Committee on State Government | 2/17/22 |
| SF 2307, SSB 3114 | Prohibits various licensing boards (except for medicine and nursing) from requiring an official transcript or diploma, for applying for licenses or renewals. Prohibits requiring the submission of a transcript or diploma if the granting institution no longer exists. | Committee on State Government | 2/17/22 |
| SF 2339 | Allows a HS student to take up to 3 mental health days a year, without penalty. Does not allow a school to require a doctor’s note. | Celsi | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2340 | Requires the BoEE to adopt rules for the DCI to do background checks. Includes other licensing/endorsement provisions Requires student teachers be paid. Requires schools to have one full-time substitute for every 100 teachers. Requires bonuses be paid to most school employees. | Celsi | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2341 | Establishes a school MH funding supplement. Requires schools use the supplement to improve student MH and for the costs of professional staff. Effective immediately. | Celsi | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2342; SSB 3146 | Requires that college and school sports be classified according to the sex of the team members, including categories for mixed or co-ed. Limits participation on teams for girls to students who were listed as female on their birth certificates. | Committee on Education | 2/18/22 |
| SF 2345; SSB 3122 | Codifies rules on the Congenital & Inherited Disorders Advisory Committee. Adds new conditions as identified by the federal government should be added to the current screening panel for newborns. Establishes annual reporting requirements for the DPH on newborn screenings, including new conditions that may be added, status and resources for the program and other matters. | Committee on Human Resources | 3/8/22 |
| SF 2348; SSB 3103 | Allows a school district to request supplemental aid from the School Budget Review Committee if the number of open-enrolled students in the district exceeds 35% of the enrollment. Establishes a formula for how much supplemental aid the School Budget Review Committee can allow. Requires the school district to hold public hearings. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2351; SF 89 | Requires cursive instruction for students enrolled in public elementary schools. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2356; SSB 3085 | Allows a school board to use a volunteer substitute teacher who has specific credentials that allow the person to substitute without having to pay the person. Requires the sub to pass a background check. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2357; SF 2203 | Requires school boards to meet in-person. Prohibits remote attendance by a member unless the member is sick. Requires members to vote yea or nay on issues, expect in cases of a personal conflict. Makes a majority members present a quorum. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2358; SF 2112 | Directs the DOE to convene a working group on achievement gaps for K-12 students and to report by December 2022. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2359; SF 2107 | Directs the DOE to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on cognitive learning. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2362; SSB 3104 | Relating to entities supported in whole or in part by public moneys, including the sale of public bonds, the duties and responsibilities of school boards, school districts, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and accredited nonpublic schools, and the membership of county conference boards. | Committee on Education | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2364; SF 2198 | Requires schools designate an administrator to ensure that no obscene material is in school libraries. Prohibits an administrator from knowingly giving a student obscene material or a teacher from knowingly assigning obscene material. Makes violations a serious misdemeanor. Allows parents to seek injunctive relief, with civil penalties assessed against the school. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/21/22 |
| SF 2368 | Establishes a student teacher grant program and raises initial teacher salaries. Strikes certain testing requirements and makes changes to endorsements. Creates a teacher retention task force. Allows schools to spend money on teacher appreciation activities. | Mathis & 16 Others | 3/1/22 |
| SF 2369; SF 2349; SSB 3080 | Establishes a student first scholarship program and a student first enrollment supplement fund, requiring the boards of directors of school districts to publish certain specified information, modifying provisions related to required social studies instruction, open enrollment, teacher librarian endorsements, competent private instruction, and special education, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/1/22 |
| SF 2371 | Enacts various changes related to records, tax remittances, electronic filings and communications, and various other tax matters. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/17/22 |
| SF 2377; SF 2202, SSB 3067 | Intern: Requires a college with a program to prepare students for a teaching intern license to make sure that the students meet certain requirements. Teach Iowa: Reserves half the awards under Teach Iowa for districts under 1,200. Allows the CSC to make awards of Teach Iowa grants that differ from the reserved amounts for various groups if there are not enough applicants for one of the reserves. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/21/22 |
| SF 2380 | A bill for an act to designate February 1 of each year as George Washington Carver Day. | Whitver & Wahls | 4/19/22 |
Senate Study Bills
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSB 3081 | Prohibits a school from offering a shared/concurrent enrollment course through a community college that is outside the merged area of the school unless the community college in the merged area does not offer a comparable course. Allows the school board to determine what is a comparable course. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Sinclair | 1/31/22 |
| SSB 3082 | Requires a private college to have been established prior to 2020 in order to qualify for the Iowa tuition grant program. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Sinclair | 1/31/22 |
| SSB 3112 | Requires the DPH to adopt rules to allow schools and colleges and long-term care facilities to get medical marijuana licenses in order to distribute medical cannabis to persons in the care of the institution. | Proposed Committee on Judiciary Bill by Chairperson Zaun | 2/8/22 |
| SSB 3123 | Requires the DOE to have a process for school boards to report annually on student participation in work-based learning programs. Requires the BoEE to develop certification for work-based learning supervisors. Requires student education plans to identify work-based learning opportunities in HS that will help the student in college. | Proposed Governor Bill | 2/14/22 |
| SSB 3137 | Makes the Governor’s proposed spending from RIIF and the Technology Reinvestment fund for FY 2023. | Proposed Governor Budget Bill | 2/16/22 |
| SSB 3139 | Requires the DOE, with the DNR, to convene a working group to study integrating cross-bow instruction in PE courses and extracurricular activities. Includes reporting requirements. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Sinclair | 2/14/22 |
| SSB 3148 | Makes the Governor’s FY 2023 GF appropriations to the CSC, the DOE, DOB, Regents and community colleges. | Proposed Governor Budget Bill | 2/17/22 |
Senate Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SR 124 | A resolution honoring the responders to the March 7, 2022, East High School shooting. | Boulton | 4/19/22 |
Senate Concurrent Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCR101 | Urges the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to grant an exception to the classification of cannabis under schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act in Iowa for educational and long-term care facilities. | Zaun | 1/24/22 |
Senate Joint Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
House Files
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HF 318 | Relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions. | Committee on Education | 3/28/22 |
| HF 604; HF 244 | Requires the DOE to hire an Early Language Development Coordinator and requires the development of tools to assess the language and literacy acquisition skills of young deaf children. Requires development of a resource for parents. Creates an advisory committee. | Committee on Education | 3/11/22 |
| HF 771 | Includes bronchodilators and related equipment to the medications that may be self-administered by students and stored at schools. | Committee on Human Resources | 3/11/22 |
| HF 2008, SF2003 | Increases funding that schools can use for at-risk student programs by 0.5% starting in FY 2023 until reaching a maximum of 5%. | Ingels | 1/11/22 |
| HF 2009 | Authorizes the use of revenues from the district management levy for the employment of school resource officers. | Lohse | 1/11/22 |
| HF 2019 | Establishes an Advanced Opportunity program to help junior high and high school students take extra courses to graduate early. Makes students eligible for $4,125 to take overload courses. Requires the DOE to set requirements for overload courses. | Lohse | 1/12/22 |
| HF 2020 | Strikes the ability of colleges to use a subject assessment from a national testing program for candidates in teacher preparation programs. | Gobble | 1/12/22 |
| HF 2021 | Strikes the ability of colleges to use a subject assessment from a national testing program for candidates in teacher preparation programs or a valid subject area performance assessment. Increases the field experience hours needed by teaching candidates to 100 hours and requires 10 hours to be prior to the student being accepted into a program. | Gobble | 1/12/22 |
| HF 2036 | Requires a business that requires COVID testing as a vaccination alternative to pay all the costs for testing, including paying the employee for time away from work. Prohibits requiring an employee to undergo testing outside of normal work hours. | Stone | 1/18/22 |
| HF 2038 | Moves provisions concerning certain for-profit private colleges regarding tuition grants into the definition of accredited private institution. | Stone | 1/14/22 |
| HF 2039 | Requires the state universities to schedule at least one game a year against each other in all of the NCAA sanctioned sports the schools offer. Requires games to take place at the home of school in a higher class. | Ingels | 1/14/22 |
| HF 2053 | Prohibitions against: requiring teachers to discuss controversial issues in government, history or social studies courses; schools from requiring students in such courses to join an organization that lobbies or engages in public policy advocacy; schools from accepting money for curriculum or professional development; compelling teachers to affirm a belief in systemic racism, the fluidity of gender identities or against the teacher’s sincerely-held religious beliefs. | Salmon | 1/20/22 |
| HF 2054 | Requires schools to notify parents about programs, curriculum or other material that includes instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity. Allows the parent to file a written request that the pupil be excused. Allows teachers to respond to questions in class on sexual orientation or gender identity without giving notice or for school employees to respond to such questions to address a bullying incident. | Salmon | 1/20/22 |
| HF 2055 | Deems student athletes at Regent schools to be employees ad requires the Regents to set a pay schedule for them. | Hunter | 1/20/22 |
| HF 2060 | Courses: Requires HS students to have one unit each of US government, US history, Iowa history and civics. Requires the courses to include instruction on the US Constitution, voting procedures an objective analysis of other ideologies through world history. Requires public school students to be given a multiple-choice test on US government and for the DOE to publish the results on the internet. Books: Requires the DOE to review and approve materials for these courses. Requires parents to be consulted and for the DOE to publish notice on the internet of the materials to be used. Issues: Prohibits requiring teachers or students to affirm a stance on any controversial issue. | Wills & 9 Others | 1/20/22 |
| HF 2080, HF2037 | Increases the supplemental weighting for schools that share operational superintendent management functions. | Committee on Education | 1/24/22 |
| HF 2081, HSB 520 | Strikes the ability of colleges to administer a pre-professional assessment to teaching candidates and strikes the ability to use a subject assessment from a national testing program. | Committee on Education | 1/24/22 |
| HF 2082, HSB 521 | The collection of certain school taxes collected in urban renewal areas containing wind energy conversion property. | Committee on Education | 1/24/22 |
| HF 2083, HSB519 | Makes teachers who finish preparation programs in the top 50% of the class eligible for Teach Iowa grants if the teacher is going to teach in-state. Splits grants for teachers based on the size of the district (half for under 1,000 students, half for over 1,000 students). Authorizes the CSC to make different awards if there are not enough applicants for some of the reserved funds. | Committee on Education | 1/24/22 |
| HF 2089 | Requires that civics be taught in grades K-12 and specifies the principles of civics to be taught. Requires that high school government courses include a discussion of communism and totalitarianism, and other ideologies, that conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy essential to the US. | Wheeler | 1/25/22 |
| HF 2090 | Modifies definition of governmental entity under 25A.1; prohibits governmental entities receiving tax-generated revenue from teaching, advocating, encouraging, promoting, acting upon stereotypes, etc. based on demographics, etc. | Wheeler | 1/26/22 |
| HF 2091 | Creates a property tax refund for the parents of children who attend private schools for the amount paid by the parent for school taxes. | Bush | 1/25/22 |
| HF 2098 | Requires health and human growth curriculum (sex education) for K-6 to include instruction on identifying parts of the body and age-appropriate, research-based information on empathy and respecting personal boundaries. Requires the curriculum for 7-12 to include information on consent and on identifying sexually predatory behavior and unhealthy relationships. | Brown-Powers | 1/26/22 |
| HF 2100 | Requires the DOE to develop an alternative energy innovation program. | Gobble | 1/26/22 |
| HF 2110 | Prohibits discrimination in schools, at work and in other public accommodations on the basis of hair texture or hairstyles that are historically associated with a race. | Anderson & 11 Others | 1/26/22 |
| HF 2127; HSB 510 | Allows a childcare provider to collect the difference between the amount of state assistance and the amount the provider normally charges from a family in the childcare assistance program. | Committee on Human Resources | 3/7/22 |
| HF 2132 | Allows school boards to restrict comments at meetings to parents and guardians of students in the district. | Gobble | 1/27/22 |
| HF 2136 | Changes the calculation for school foundation aid to an amount equal to the difference between the amount of foundation property tax and the combined foundation base. Sets a minimum for what school districts can receive. Strikes obsolete language. | Wills | 1/27/22 |
| HF 2146 | Adds one senator and one representative as ex officio members of the BoEE. | Thompson | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2148, HSB 518 | Strikes current provisions on when teachers submit resignations at the end of the school year when not accepting a contract and requires a teacher to submit a written resignation by the date specified by the school board or by June 30th. | Committee on Education | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2151 | Requires the BoEE to allow teaching applicants to submit fingerprint packages electronically. | Bossman | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2156, HSB 542 | Requires tuition refunds from for-profit schools to Iowans meet certain Code standards. | Committee on Education | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2158 | Requires the BoEE to give student teachers an authorization for the student teacher to substitute in the class the student is currently teaching, if the regular teacher is absent. | Gobble | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2159 | Requires the BoEE to convene a teacher licensing reciprocity task force to review requirements for out-of state teachers who wish to be licensed in Iowa, to study teacher education programs in other states and to study how to improve the process of licensing out-of-state teachers. | Gobble | 1/28/22 |
| HF 2165, HSB541 | Makes part-time students eligible for Future Ready Last Dollar scholarships. | Committee on Education | 1/31/22 |
| HF 2170, HSB581 | Excludes the employment of a licensed teacher for a non-administrative position as covered employment in terms of determining a bona fide retirement under IPERS, between July 2022 through July 2026. | Committee on State Government | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2176 | Makes it an aggravated misdemeanor (1st offense) or Class D felony (subsequent offenses) for a school employee or public librarian to knowingly give obscene material to a minor. Makes each day the violation continues a separate offense. Authorizes a civil cause of action for the parents, including damages, with a minimum of $10,000, attorney fees and injunctive relief. | Salmon & 13 Others | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2177 | Requires schools to install cameras in classrooms and to livestream the footage for parents to watch. | Mommsen | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2178 | Requires the 14-week period for student teaching to be reduced for student teachers who have already worked as substitutes. | Fisher | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2181 | Appropriates $1 million to the CSC for a program to pay teacher student loans. | Staed & 11 Others | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2182 | Consolidates the area education agencies to 4, modifies the teacher salary supplement state cost per pupil calculation, and modifies the employment terms of certain specified employees of area education agencies. | Gobble | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2183 | Requires human growth and development curriculum (sex education) include age-appropriate instruction on healthy dating and on the meaning of consent. | Bohannan | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2184 | Requires school boards to appoint a student, a parent and a teacher to the board for a one-year term as a non-voting member. Requires school districts to develop an application and requires students to have parental permission to serve. | Gobble | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2185 | Requires the CSC to establish a grant program to help teachers earn an advanced dyslexia specialist endorsement. Gives priority to Iowans and graduates of Iowa colleges. Requires the CSC to work with the DOE on rules. | Jones | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2187 | Establishes supplementary weighting for schools for MH/behavioral services. | Staed & 10 Others | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2197, HSB517 | Defines persons with psychology doctorates and specialty training in neuropsychology or concussion management as licensed health care providers for HS concussion policies. | Committee on Human Resources | 2/1/22 |
| HF 2198; HSB 539 | Requires the DHS to amend rules to allow 16 year-olds to working or volunteering at a childcare facility to be unsupervised. | Committee on Human Resources | 3/7/22 |
| HF 2204 | Establishes supplementary weighting for school activities (0.001 per pupil) for the student activity fund. | Mascher | 2/3/22 |
| HF 2212 | Allows the parents of a child born in September to elect to have the child covered under compulsory attendance rules when the child is 5 and to elect to have the school treat the child as age five, when the child reaches age 6. | Jacoby | 2/2/22 |
| HF 2218, HF2052 | Allows school districts to filter internet sites to prevent connections to social media. | Committee on Education | 2/2/22 |
| HF 2223 | Establishes education scholarships (Iowa Hope Scholarships) for K-12 students who attend private schools or are home-schooled in the DOM. | Wheeler & 10 Others | 2/2/22 |
| HF 2224 | Bars schools from using names, mascots and symbols depicting a Native American tribe after January 2024. Does not include schools controlled by a tribe or a BIA school. | Wolf & 3 Others | 2/2/22 |
| HF 2250, HSB 561 | Prohibits the use of a hand-held electronic communication device while driving in a road work zone or school zone. | Committee on Transportation | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2253 | Allows a school district with less than 1,000 students to use the district management levy for a student loan repayment program under early retirement incentives. | Dolecheck | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2254 | Allows schools to offer five consecutive days of on-line learning and for no more than 10 days in the school year. Requires schools to apply to the DOE to exceed these limits. Deems on-line days offered in excess of this limit to not count toward the required number of days of instruction. | Dolecheck | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2258; HSB 573 | Reduces the number of members of the Iowa Council on Homelessness to 11 voting public members appointed by the Governor and 8 non-voting agency directors, including the director of the DOE as a non-voting member. | Committee on State Government | 2/24/22 |
| HF 2261 | Authorizes civil actions against a distributor whose internet site has obscene material and who knowingly allow a minor to access the site. | Jacobsen | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2262 | Requires the DOE to convene a task force on language equality and acquisition for deaf children. Requires the task force to create a resource for the parents of deaf children to help track the language acquisition of their children and to assess their language competency. | Jacobsen | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2263 | Requires HS students pass the US citizenship test and to get a passing score on a financial literacy test in order to graduate. Allows the student to retake the tests as many times as needed. | Jacobsen | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2280, HSB516 | Includes bronchodilators and related equipment to the medications that may be self-administered by students and stored at schools. | Committee on Human Resources | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2283 | Modifies the supplementary weightings to schools for programs for at-risk students. Strikes obsolete provisions and makes corresponding changes. | Staed | 2/4/22 |
| HF 2294, HF2109 | Requires public schools to include Iowa Crisis hotline and text numbers on 7-12 student IDs. Encourages the inclusion on grades 5-6 IDs. Allows the schools to use up any existing stock before meeting these requirements. | Committee on Education | 2/8/22 |
| HF 2298, HF2040 | Prohibits requiring a COVID immunization in order to enroll in childcare center, school or college or university prior to July 2029. | Committee on Education | 2/8/22 |
| HF 2315, HSB660 | Appropriates $19.2 million in FY 2022 to make supplemental payments to schools for increased costs for bus drivers, para-educator and other matters. Bases the payment on school enrollment. | Committee on Appropriations | 2/9/22 |
| HF 2316, HSB658 | Sets the SSA at 2.5%. For the school year 2022-23, makes the regular program per-pupil cost equal the regular program cost plus the supplemental and $5. Makes the appropriation for transportation equity equal to the amount needed to fully fund transportation equity payments. Changes the property tax replacement formula. | Committee on Education | 2/9/22 |
| HF 2322 | Provides for the agricultural commodities produced in this state, including the preparation or processing of agricultural commodities into local food, by providing for the membership of the local food and farm program council, and the local food and farm program. | Ingels | 2/10/22 |
| HF 2332 | Makes childcare jobs exempt from the wage requirements and qualifies the jobs for Future Ready last dollar scholarships. Establishes a standing appropriation of $265,950 for the program. | Elhert & Mascher | 2/10/22 |
| HF 2350 | Appropriates $10 million to the CSC for an Iowa All College Corp program. Authorizes grants to Iowans who graduate from an Iowa HS, enroll in college, and complete 450 hours of community service during the college school year. Limits the grant to no more than the amount of tuition and makes the grants first-come, first served | Wessel-Kroeschell | 2/14/22 |
| HF 2351 | Allows teacher apprenticeship programs to be considered as concurrent enrollment under school district - community college sharing programs. Defines teacher apprenticeship programs. | Mascher | 2/14/22 |
| HF 2352 | Makes the student teaching experience for one year during the student teacher’s first year in school. Requires a cooperating teacher to supervise the student teacher and for the school with the cooperating teacher to pay the student teacher. | Mascher | 2/14/22 |
| HF 2367, HSB563 | Changes references in regard to the duties of the Iowa Drug Policy Coordinator and increases the number of members on the advisory council to 17. | Committee on Public Safety | 2/17/22 |
| HF 2377 | Establishes a financial wellness office in the Department of Commerce to help improve the financial literacy of Iowans. Includes implementing provisions. | Committee on Commerce | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2385, HSB 527 | Adds persons performing volunteer or services under contract to a public or private school or a charter school to the definition of a school employee and includes charter school students as students in regard to provisions on the sexual exploitation of student by a school employee. Requires, rather than allows mandatory reporters to make reports of abuse for children over 12. | Committee on Judiciary | 2/14/22 |
| HF 2398; HSB 656 | Strikes requirements for teachers with a master’s degree or PhD to renew their licenses. Includes conforming provisions. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2409; HSB 611 | Changes references from “limited English proficiency” to “English learner.” Makes changes to community college planning committees on hiring and developing staff. Makes changes on community college instructor qualifications. Makes other changes related to community college accreditation. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2412; HF 2264 | Requires school boards to conduct a short-term test(2 to 7-day test) for radon in school buildings at least once by July 2027 and at least once every five years afterwards, by certified testers. Requires the results to be published. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2416; HF 2309 | Requires that HS sports be classified according to the sex of the team members, including categories for mixed or co-ed. Limits participation on teams for girls to students who were listed as female on their birth certificates. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2417; HF 2139 | Changes the wait period for students who transfer to another school before competing in sports to 90 calendar days. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2418; HF 2099 | Requires HS students to have one unit each of US government, US history, Iowa history and civics. Requires the courses to include instruction on the US Constitution, voting procedures an objective analysis of other ideologies through world history. Requires that students have a 1/2 unit on civics discourse prior to finishing grade 8. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2421; HSB 632 | Allows an out-of-state applicant to qualify for a regional exchange license by showing a bona fide offer of employment to the BoEE. Requires the BoEE to issue a teacher intern license to an applicant who qualifies as a non-traditional applicant. Requires the BoEE to adopt rules to allow a teacher seeking a career and technical secondary authorization to receive the authorization prior to getting employment. | Committee on Education | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2424 | Allows a minor with a special driving license to drive to and from work by the most direct route. Requires the route be less than 25 miles. | Wheeler | 2/17/22 |
| HF 2425 | Establishes an income tax credit for 65% percent of a contribution to a qualified charitable private instruction tuition organization. Requires the 90% of the grants go to students whose family income is less than 400% of the FPL. | Wheeler | 2/16/22 |
| HF 2432 | Authorizes the State Treasurer to spend $125 million from federal pandemic funds to pay $2,500 into Iowa Educational Savings Plans for essential workers. | Isenhart | 2/17/22 |
| HF 2433; HF2308 | Dairy & Milk Innovation Program. Requires the EDA, in consultation with DALS, to administer the program. Creates a task force to look at establishing an artisanal dairy program at a community college or Regents school. | Committee on Agriculture | 2/17/22 |
| HF 2448 | Requires that human growth and development instruction provided by school districts include age-appropriate and research-based instruction inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health practices. | Bennett | 2/18/22 |
| HF 2449 | Requires that human growth and development instruction provided by school districts include instruction on consent. | Bennett | 2/18/22 |
| HF 2470; HSB 675 | Requires various agencies to develop programs/rules related to artisanal butchery by December 2022; requires the DOE and the state BOE to develop an artisanal butchery certificate program to be offered through community colleges. | Committee on Economic Growth | 2/18/22 |
| HF 2488; HSB 579 | Requires all records, videos, electronic storage, documents, tapes, and other information or material, stored or preserved on behalf of the state to be considered public records. | Committee on State Government | 2/18/22 |
| HF 2493; HSB 720 | Allows schools to use para-educators as substitute teachers, except for driver’s education, if the school makes a good-faith effort to find a qualified sub. Requires the para-educator to be paid the same as a regular sub. Authorizes the BoEE to adopt rules. | Administrative Rules Review Committee | 2/22/22 |
| HF 2495; HF 2306 | Requires the CSC to develop a scholarship program to aid individuals who have intellectual disabilities and are enrolled in a post-secondary transition program. Requires the program to have federal approval. Requires the CSC to establish criteria and give priority to Iowans. Establishes a fund for appropriations. | Committee on Education | 2/22/22 |
| HF 2498; HSB 705 | Includes parts of the Governor’s education proposals. Private Special Ed: Allows a private school student needing special education courses to be placed in those courses without prior approval by the AEA. Allows the student to be dually enrolled. Open Enrollment: Allows the sibling of a student who is appealing a decision to deny an open enrollment request due to harassment that was filed after March 1 to also appeals decision on open enrollment. Allows such a sibling student to compete immediately in athletics. Librarians: Strikes requirements that a school librarian have an MLS. | Committee on Education | 2/22/22 |
| HF 2500; HF 2085 | Establishes an alternative license for teachers. Requires the candidate to be 26, have a bachelor’s degree and complete an alternative program and praxis subject assessment. Requires the candidate to complete a one-year clinical experience as a teacher in the initial year. Prohibits the person from teaching special education courses. Includes other requirements. Requires the BOE to report annually on the status of the program. | Committee on Education | 2/22/22 |
| HF 2513 | Prohibits discrimination based upon racial biases and stereotypes associated with hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles in education, employment, housing, and public accommodations. | James | 2/23/22 |
| HF 2539; HSB 690 | Codifies rules on the Congenital & Inherited Disorders Advisory Committee. Adds new conditions as identified by the federal government to the current screening panel for newborns. Establishes annual reporting requirements for the DPH on newborn screenings, including new conditions that may be added, status and resources for the program and other matters. | Committee on Human Resources | 3/8/22 |
| HF 2543; HF 2186 | Authorizes school boards to hire independent contractors to serve as dyslexia specialists, contingent on an appropriation. | Committee on Education | 3/1/22 |
| HF 2545; HSB 647 | Strikes the current prohibitions against businesses requiring proof of COVID immunizations and enacts a broad restriction against schools, businesses, employers and governments from asking about medical treatments, immunizations and other matters, including immunization passports, a prohibition on offering incentives, and on other related matters. | Committee on State Government | 3/18/22 |
| HF 2552 | Enacts various changes related to administrative procedures on record retention, electronic filings, fees for copies of returns, electronic communications with taxpayers, tax remittances to the DOR, reviews by the Property Tax Board, increases the salary range for the board, appeals, wage assignments, pass-through tax credits, publication of interest rates, aviation and marine fuel taxes, reporting dates, makes changes to out of-state collections and the inheritance tax, and changes to the Business Property Tax Credit and other matters. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/17/22 |
| HF 2553; HF 2278 | Appropriates $150,000 to the CSC to work with the Iowa College Access Network to assist HS students in applying for federal student aid. Deems the money shall not revert. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/14/22 |
| HF 2555; HF 2361, HSB 669 | Appropriates $2.5 million to establish a cyber security simulation training center at ISU to help governments and businesses deal with cyber-attacks. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/14/22 |
| HF 2567; HF 2505, HSB 702 | Requires certain mandatory reporters of child abuse to report such abuse regardless of the age of the child. Requires school employees who believe that another school employer is responsible for the injury to report that employee. Requires the DOE to develop a process for reporting and investigating incidents where a teacher or licensed professional may have broken a law. Creates a committee to investigate these matters and establishes membership of the committee. Includes immunity provisions for school boards. Requires records be kept of incidents but does not make those open records. Establishes civil penalties for administrators who fail to follow procedures regarding these incidents. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/21/22 |
| HF 2569; HSB 682, HF 2527 | Requires the DOE to have a process for school boards to report annually on student participation in work-based learning programs. Requires the BoEE to develop certification for work-based learning supervisors. Requires student education plans to identify work-based learning opportunities in HS that will help the student in college. | Committee on Ways and Means | 3/23/22 |
| HF 2575 | Makes the FY 2022 GF appropriations to the CSC, the DOE, DOB, Regents and Community Colleges | Committee on Appropriations | 3/30/22 |
| HF 2577; HF 2499, HSB 706 | Includes parts of the Governor’s education proposals. Courses: Requires school district to publish course syllabi on the internet. Requires course summaries, with explanations how the course meets educational requirements, a listing of texts and other materials for the course, a library catalogue, and procedures on how to request the removal of a book using a flowchart, and other information on instruction. Reduces state aid for violations. Requires school districts to establish procedures for the selection and removal of materials from school libraries. Social Studies: Requires HS government classes to test students using the US citizenship test and to submit the results annually to the DOE. Requires the student to score at least a 70 to pass. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/28/22 |
| HF 2580; HF 2182, HSB 727 | AEA: Reduces the number of AEAs to four and includes requirements for reorganization. Requires AEAs to allow teachers who teach over the internet to live outside the AEA area, but only if the content can be adequately provided over the internet. Salary: Increases the state teacher salary supplement. | Committee on Appropriations | 3/30/22 |
| HF 2583; HSB 552 | Allows combined sales/use tax receipts. Makes filings for the sales tax monthly, but allows a person who collects less than $1,200 to file annually. Makes changes to terminology and other administrative sales tax matters. LOST/SAVE: Requires the amounts owed to local governments and schools to be transferred to the governments or schools from the DOR. Includes a transition period. | Committee on Ways and Means | 4/4/22 |
House Study Bills
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HSB 552 | Allows combined sales/use tax receipts. Makes filings for the sales tax monthly, but allows a person who collects less than $1,200 to file annually. Makes changes to terminology and other administrative sales tax matters. | Proposed Department of Revenue Bill | 1/19/22 |
| HSB 566 | Authorizes the Public Broadcasting Board to own copyright/intellectual property rights and to enforce those rights for Iowa PBS. Includes related provisions. | Proposed Public Broadcasting Board Bill | 1/27/22 |
| HSB 574 | Strikes provisions that prohibit a school from beginning before August 23. Requires schools to adopt a school calendar beginning after June 1 or before August 15 by the preceding February. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Hite | 1/19/22 |
| HSB 657 | Relating to Iowa tuition grants and the definition of accredited private institutions. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Hite | 2/3/22 |
| HSB 672 | Establishing a student first scholarship program and a student first enrollment supplement fund, requiring the boards of directors of school districts to publish certain specified information, modifying provisions related to required social studies instruction, open enrollment, teacher librarian endorsements, competent private instruction, and special education, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions. | Proposed Governor Bill | 2/8/22 |
| HSB 682 | Requires the DOE to have a process for school boards to report annually on student participation in work-based learning programs. Requires the BoEE to develop certification for work-based learning supervisors. Requires student education plans to identify work-based learning opportunities in HS that will help the student in college. | Proposed Governor Bill | 2/16/22 |
| HSB 683 | Requires schools that adopt a face mask policy to protect a child with disabilities to also adopt a policy that allows parents to opt their children out of such policies. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Hite | 2/9/22 |
| HSB 684 | Requires the BoEE to issue a license to an applicant who has an out-of-state license and has taught for the last three years. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Hite | 2/9/22 |
| HSB 725 | Allows home-schooling parents to issue a diploma when a child completes instruction. Gives the parent the authority to execute other needed documents. | Proposed Committee on Education Bill by Chairperson Hite | 2/17/22 |
House Resolutions
| Bill Number | Title | Sponsor(s)/Comment(s) | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HJR 2001 | Proposing an amendment to the Iowa constitution prohibiting the Legislature from enacting laws restricting books and written materials used to instruct students in grades K12, universities, and other educational institutions. | Jacoby | 1/14/22 |