Bills Sponsored By Committee

Education (H)

Bill Bill Title
Link to BillBookHF 117 A bill for an act establishing the national guard service professional qualification scholarship program. (Formerly HSB 3.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 118 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the national guard service scholarship program. (Formerly HSB 4.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 163 A bill for an act relating to school safety by requiring the creation of threat assessment teams and authorizing information sharing between certain governmental agencies.(Formerly HSB 47.)
Link to BillBookHF 165 A bill for an act requiring students to pass the United States citizenship and immigration services naturalization civics test as a condition of high school graduation and high school equivalency diplomas.(Formerly HSB 30.)
Link to BillBookHF 166 A bill for an act relating to public schools, including requiring public schools to display the national motto and the state motto and to start each day of classroom instruction with silent time.(Formerly HSB 32.)
Link to BillBookHF 167 A bill for an act relating to mandatory reporting to the board of educational examiners of licensed school employees who engage in grooming behavior toward students.(Formerly HSB 46.)
Link to BillBookHF 174 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the effective date of school district enlargements, reorganizations, changes in boundaries, and dissolutions, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 10.)
Link to BillBookHF 189 A bill for an act relating to the eligibility of students enrolled in nonpublic schools to compete in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions provided by public schools, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 1.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 08/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 190 A bill for an act relating to the administration of the statewide summative assessment of student progress to students of online schools by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools. (Formerly HSB 33.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 212 A bill for an act relating to meals, food, and beverages provided to students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 5.)
Link to BillBookHF 271 A bill for an act establishing the comprehensive transition and postsecondary program scholarship program and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 97.)
Link to BillBookHF 272 A bill for an act establishing the advanced dyslexia specialist endorsement competitive scholar program within the college student aid commission and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 96.)
Link to BillBookHF 315 A bill for an act relating to budget adjustments by school districts affected by a natural disaster.(Formerly HF 60.)
Link to BillBookHF 316 A bill for an act relating to career education, including middle school career exploration and industry-recognized credential seals and certificates for high school students. (Formerly HSB 44.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 369 A bill for an act establishing an agriculture education grant program within the department of education and making appropriations.(Formerly HF 33.)
Link to BillBookHF 389 A bill for an act relating to student abuse by school employees. (Formerly HF 186.)
Link to BillBookHF 391 A bill for an act incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curriculum provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades seven through twelve.(Formerly HSB 34.)
Link to BillBookHF 392 A bill for an act authorizing school districts and accredited nonpublic schools to apply to the department of education for authorization to maintain a year-round school calendar at an attendance center or school for students enrolled in grades nine through twelve. (Formerly HF 120.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 393 A bill for an act relating to the Iowa school performance profiles published by the department of education, including how dropout students affect school performance grades contained in the profiles. (Formerly HF 136.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 395 A bill for an act relating to approved courses of instruction for school bus drivers, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 107.) Effective date: 01/01/2026.
Link to BillBookHF 513 A bill for an act relating to participation in high school extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests or competitions by students enrolled in grade eight.(Formerly HF 220.)
Link to BillBookHF 514 A bill for an act relating to robotics extracurricular activities, including requiring the department of education to provide technical assistance to school districts related to chartering career and technical student organizations related to robotics and authorizing high school athletic organizations to sponsor interscholastic contests related to robotics.(Formerly HF 204.)
Link to BillBookHF 515 A bill for an act relating to school districts that share the operational functions of a school resource officer, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 122.)
Link to BillBookHF 520 A bill for an act relating to social studies instruction, including instruction in United States government, provided to students enrolled in grades nine through twelve, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 236.)
Link to BillBookHF 521 A bill for an act relating to obscenity exemptions for public libraries and educational institutions.(Formerly HF 274.)
Link to BillBookHF 522 A bill for an act relating to the therapeutic classroom incentive program by authorizing the expenditure of moneys for certain nutritional items.(Formerly HF 114.)
Link to BillBookHF 579 A bill for an act relating to 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. (Formerly HSB 157.)
Link to BillBookHF 771 A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to develop and administer a purple star school initiative.(Formerly HSB 45.)
Link to BillBookHF 772 A bill for an act providing for an annual authorization fee to be collected by the college student aid commission from certain postsecondary educational institutions not subject to registration with the commission.(Formerly HSB 48; See HF 1010.)
Link to BillBookHF 782 A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours and school safety plans, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 106.) Effective date: 04/30/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 783 A bill for an act implementing requirements related to organizations that sponsor or administer extracurricular interscholastic athletics, including the creation of a conference realignment committee. (Formerly HF 331.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 784 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to mathematics instruction, practitioner preparation programs, and the duties of the director of the department of education, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 137.) Effective date: 06/02/2025, 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 785 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to charter school board member requirements. (Formerly HSB 105.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 787 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the calculation of the teacher salary supplement district cost per pupil, teacher preparation requirements, out-of-state placement of certain specified students requiring special education, the duties of the department of education, and minimum teacher salaries, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 147.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 789 A bill for an act relating to payments to charter schools by a school district of residence for students enrolled in a charter school, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 108.)
Link to BillBookHF 835 A bill for an act relating to school personnel training, including by implementing provisions related to emergency care planning, authorizations for assisting, and limitations of liability concerning students with epilepsy or seizure disorder, and requiring the department of education to convene a health care-related training for school personnel work group. (Formerly HF 102.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 845 A bill for an act relating to elective social studies courses emphasizing religious scripture that school districts may offer and teach.(Formerly HF 448.)
Link to BillBookHF 856 A bill for an act prohibiting public entities from engaging in certain activities relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, creating a private cause of action, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 155.) Effective date: 05/27/2025, 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 858 A bill for an act relating to concussion and brain injury training for coaches.(Formerly HSB 220.)
Link to BillBookHF 859 A bill for an act requiring school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to adopt policies related to carrying out a reduction in force.(Formerly HSB 217.)
Link to BillBookHF 865 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the harassment or bullying of students enrolled in school districts or accredited nonpublic schools. (Formerly HF 149.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 868 A bill for an act providing for a study of establishing an institution of higher education governed by the state board of regents in Pottawattamie county or a contiguous county.(Formerly HSB 277.)
Link to BillBookHF 870 A bill for an act relating to students who attend a course in religious instruction that is provided by a private organization, including by modifying provisions related to compulsory education and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly HSB 218.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 880 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to public libraries that are eligible to receive state assistance under the enrich Iowa program.(Formerly HF 284.)
Link to BillBookHF 883 A bill for an act providing for access to feminine hygiene products in public school restrooms and making an appropriation.(Formerly HF 543.)
Link to BillBookHF 884 A bill for an act authorizing school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to employ chaplains, or engage volunteer chaplains, to provide services to students. (Formerly HF 334.)
Link to BillBookHF 888 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to private instruction, world language instruction, and dual enrollment, and including effective date and applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 88.)
Link to BillBookHF 890 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, the national board certification pilot project, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and the employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HSB 43.) Effective date: 06/06/2025, 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookHF 891 A bill for an act relating to obscenity, including the exposure of a minor to an obscene performance and admittance of a minor to a premises with obscene performances, establishing a private civil cause of action, and providing penalties.(Formerly HSB 158.)
Link to BillBookHF 898 A bill for an act modifying school attendance requirements related to children who are undergoing military entrance processing or who are engaged in military service.(Formerly HSB 2.)
Link to BillBookHF 900 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to open enrollment policies and English-language learners.(Formerly HF 68.)
Link to BillBookHF 906 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to notices that school officials are required to send when a child becomes chronically absent.(Formerly HF 461.)
Link to BillBookHF 929 A bill for an act relating to school districts, including by modifying provisions related to closed sessions of meetings of the boards of directors of school districts and school district requirements to publish information regarding the school district’s policies and procedures and educational materials available to students enrolled in the school district.(Formerly HSB 156.)
Link to BillBookHF 2230 A bill for an act relating to teacher education and licensing, including by modifying provisions related to practitioner preparation programs and licenses issued by the board of educational examiners.(Formerly HSB 555.)
Link to BillBookHF 2231 A bill for an act establishing a seal of civics excellence program administered by the department of education to recognize student excellence in civics. (Formerly HSB 558.) Effective date: 07/01/2026
Link to BillBookHF 2244 A bill for an act relating to social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades seven through twelve, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 594.)
Link to BillBookHF 2247 A bill for an act relating to forms of payment for entry into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition.(Formerly HF 2079.)
Link to BillBookHF 2250 A bill for an act authorizing resident students who are admitted to and in attendance in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program to participate in the Iowa tuition grants program.(Formerly HF 2012.)
Link to BillBookHF 2324 A bill for an act prohibiting school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from entering into certain specified contracts with public libraries and hosting mobile libraries.(Formerly HSB 636.)
Link to BillBookHF 2336 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the protected speech and expression rights of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools and the duties of the department of education, and providing civil penalties.(Formerly HF 2106.)
Link to BillBookHF 2337 A bill for an act relating to fraudulent practices involving academic credentials and making penalties applicable. (Formerly HF 2091.)
Link to BillBookHF 2338 A bill for an act prohibiting school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from providing any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation instruction in grades seven through twelve.(Formerly HF 2121.)
Link to BillBookHF 2358 A bill for an act authorizing community-based providers to directly participate in the statewide preschool program for four-year-old children.(Formerly HSB 604.)
Link to BillBookHF 2363 A bill for an act relating to English learners, including by modifying provisions related to open enrollment and the payment of costs incurred in transporting English learners to nonpublic schools, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 557.)
Link to BillBookHF 2440 A bill for an act relating to the payment of claims associated with nonpublic school pupil transportation, making appropriations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly HSB 678.)
Link to BillBookHF 2441 A bill for an act relating to the teach Iowa scholar program, including modifying eligibility provisions and establishing funding allocations.(Formerly HSB 648.)
Link to BillBookHF 2486 A bill for an act relating to student dress code policies of public schools, charter schools, and innovation school zones, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 681.)
Link to BillBookHF 2492 A bill for an act providing for supplementary weighting for school districts that share career and technical education instructors.(Formerly HF 2049.)
Link to BillBookHF 2493 A bill for an act relating to the statewide preschool program by modifying provisions relating to eligibility, funding, and compulsory attendance and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HF 2092.)
Link to BillBookHF 2494 A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to prepare, publish, and submit to the general assembly annual reports related to reading proficiency, mathematics proficiency, and area education agencies.(Formerly HSB 599.)
Link to BillBookHF 2508 A bill for an act relating to noncontact periods for students, coaches, directors, and teachers in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.(Formerly HSB 679.)
Link to BillBookHF 2510 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades one through twelve and the educational programs provided by the institutions of higher education under the control of the state board of regents. (Formerly HSB 714.)
Link to BillBookHF 2512 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to revocation or denial of educator licenses and certificates for publicly celebrating assassinations or acts of politically motivated violence, student protests, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 682.)
Link to BillBookHF 2538 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the duties of the department of education, the discipline of students enrolled in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools who exhibit disorderly conduct in the classroom, the responsibilities and powers of the department of education, school district teachers, and other educational staff related to students who have individualized education programs or plans under section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act, and school district professional development plans, and authorizing teachers to request a meeting of a student’s individualized education program team. (Formerly HF 2122.)
Link to BillBookHF 2539 A bill for an act repealing certain programs and other matters relating to higher education.(Formerly HSB 607.)
Link to BillBookHF 2540 A bill for an act relating to computer science and artificial intelligence education, including high school curricula and graduation requirements, and practitioner preparation programs, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 610.)
Link to BillBookHF 2544 A bill for an act requiring annual reports on and the prohibition of antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.(Formerly HSB 646.)
Link to BillBookHF 2546 A bill for an act modifying the duties of the department of education related to electronic systems, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly HF 2124.)
Link to BillBookHF 2591 A bill for an act relating to open enrollment, student transfers, and interscholastic athletic eligibility requirements.(Formerly HF 2034.)
Link to BillBookHF 2610 A bill for an act relating to education programs and systems, including career and technical education expenditures and definitions, statewide lower division general education framework and common course numbering systems, and the implementation of a statewide corequisite model in Iowa community colleges. (Formerly HSB 675.) Effective date: 07/01/2026
Link to BillBookHF 2652 A bill for an act relating to play-based learning in preschool, prekindergarten, and kindergarten.(Formerly HF 460.)
Link to BillBookHF 2670 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to summative testing in schools and the educational program provided to students enrolled in kindergarten through grade twelve, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly HSB 746.)
Link to BillBookHF 2681 A bill for an act relating to video recording systems in special education classrooms.(Formerly HF 2218.)
Link to BillBookHF 2684 A bill for an act permitting school districts to use certain categorical funds generated from pupils participating in the education savings account program for any school general fund purpose.(Formerly HF 2393.)
Link to BillBookHF 2685 A bill for an act relating to student instructional technology standards, including elementary school digital instruction limits, technology use policies, and governance of one-to-one digital device programs.(Formerly HF 2451.)
Link to BillBookHF 2686 A bill for an act authorizing the board of educational examiners to issue provisional coaching authorizations.(Formerly HF 2307.)
Link to BillBookHF 2699 A bill for an act relating to charter schools and innovation zone schools, including by modifying provisions related to charter school funding and operations, services provided to charter schools by area education agencies, charter school contracts, and charter school student participation in extracurricular activities provided by public schools, striking provisions allowing for the establishment of innovation zone schools, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 676.)
Link to BillBookHF 2705 A bill for an act relating to entities supported in whole or in part by taxation, including by modifying provisions related to the duties and responsibilities of the directors and officers of school boards, school improvement advisory committees, electronic bidding on public bonds, statewide school infrastructure funding, open enrollment, and the membership and voting units of county and city conference boards, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 717.)
Link to BillBookHF 2713 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to charter schools, the Iowa public employees’ retirement system, financing programs for charter schools and nonpublic schools administered by the Iowa finance authority, the statewide voluntary preschool program for the school start date, training and licensure, and making appropriations, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly HSB 735.)
Link to BillBookHF 2724 A bill for an act requiring the board of educational examiners to establish additional endorsements and authorizations. (Formerly HSB 677.)
Link to BillBookHF 2725 A bill for an act relating to education reporting, including the sharing of unit-level wage data for secondary and postsecondary program evaluation, the establishment of the condition of education report, consolidating certain required reports, modifying responsibilities for the future ready Iowa last-dollar scholarship report, modifying Iowa workforce development data-sharing provisions, and creating a return on investment reporting system to be overseen by the Iowa student aid commission.(Formerly HSB 725.)