SF 2027 (LSB 5071XS (6) 88)

SENATE FILE 2027

BY  MATHIS

A BILL FOR

An Act requiring that public secondary and postsecondary education institutions include contact information for the your life Iowa crisis program and the national suicide prevention line on student identification cards and including applicability provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 260C.14, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  25.  Require that identification cards issued to students include on either side of the identification card the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers and the national suicide prevention line telephone number. 
    Sec. 2.  Section 261.2, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  13.  Adopt a policy that strongly encourages any postsecondary institution other than a regents institution or community college whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the commission that issues identification cards to students to include on either side of the identification card the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers and the national suicide prevention line telephone number.
    Sec. 3.  Section 262.9, Code 2020, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  39.  Require that each institution of higher education governed by the board that issues identification cards to students to include on either side of the identification card the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers and the national suicide prevention line telephone number.
    Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  280.31  Student identification cards —— your life Iowa information.
   1.  A public school that issues identification cards to students in grades seven through twelve shall include on either side of the identification card the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers and the national suicide prevention line telephone number.
   2.  A nonpublic school that issues identification cards to students in grades seven through twelve is strongly encouraged to include on either side of the identification card the your life Iowa crisis telephone and text numbers and the national suicide prevention line telephone number.
    Sec. 5.  APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies to student identification cards issued on or after the effective date of this Act. A school, institution, or community college that has a supply of unused student identification cards shall use that supply prior to complying with the requirements of this Act relating to student identification cards. 
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill requires public schools that educate students in grades 7 through 12, regents institutions, and community colleges to include on either side of identification cards issued to students the telephone and text numbers for your life Iowa crisis, a crisis support program administered by the department of public health, and the national suicide prevention line telephone number. 
   The bill strongly encourages accredited nonpublic schools and nonpublic postsecondary institutions whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the college student aid commission to comply with the provisions of the bill. 
   The bill applies to student identification cards issued on or after the effective date of the bill. A school, institution, or community college that has a supply of unused student identification cards shall use that supply prior to complying with the requirements of the bill relating to student identification cards.