Bills Sponsored By Committee

Education (S)

Bill Bill Title
Link to BillBookSF 167 A bill for an act relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2025, modifying provisions relating to the property tax replacement payments, modifying provisions relating to the regular program state cost per pupil and funding for shared operational functions, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1053.) Effective date: 05/19/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 168 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to shared operational functions and school district supplementary weighting.(Formerly SSB 1022.)
Link to BillBookSF 171 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 SF 16.) Effective date: 07/01/2025. Applicability date: 01/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 175 A bill for an act incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curricula provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades five through twelve. (Formerly SSB 1028.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 176 A bill for an act relating to participation in cocurricular and extracurricular activities offered by school districts by pupils who open enroll for purposes of receiving educational instruction and course content primarily over the internet.(Formerly SSB 1023.)
Link to BillBookSF 205 A bill for an act modifying the earliest possible start date of the school calendar for school districts and accredited nonpublic schools.(Formerly SSB 1036.)
Link to BillBookSF 206 A bill for an act authorizing school districts to use revenues from the district management levy for teacher recruitment and retention incentives.(Formerly SSB 1027.)
Link to BillBookSF 211 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 SSB 1025.)
Link to BillBookSF 273 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 SSB 1066.)
Link to BillBookSF 274 A bill for an act relating to forms of payment for entry into an extracurricular interscholastic athletic contest or competition.(Formerly SF 141.)
Link to BillBookSF 275 A bill for an act requiring the director of the department of education to develop and administer a purple star school initiative. (Formerly SSB 1067.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 277 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to compulsory education, truancy, and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly SSB 1077.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 278 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 SF 61.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 283 A bill for an act establishing the comprehensive transition and postsecondary program scholarship program and making appropriations.(Formerly SF 14.)
Link to BillBookSF 286 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the national board certification pilot project and establishing the advanced dyslexia specialist endorsement competitive scholar program within the college student aid commission, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 72.)
Link to BillBookSF 288 A bill for an act relating to students who are pregnant or who recently gave birth who attend state institutions of higher education governed by the board of regents and community colleges. (Formerly SF 12.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 368 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 SF 111.)
Link to BillBookSF 369 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 SSB 1030.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Link to BillBookSF 370 A bill for an act relating to electronic devices in schools, including student access during instructional hours, school safety plans, and instruction related to the effects of social media in grades six through eight, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SSB 1065.)
Link to BillBookSF 442 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 SSB 1100.)
Link to BillBookSF 444 A bill for an act relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or dissolution.(Formerly SSB 1076.)
Link to BillBookSF 445 A bill for an act relating to early childhood education and care, including by modifying provisions related to the statewide preschool program, the child development coordinating council, programs for at-risk children, the responsibilities of the department of education, the early childhood Iowa initiative, and the state child care assistance program, establishing the child care continuum partnership grants pilot program within the department of health and human services, making appropriations and reducing appropriations, and including effective date provisions. (Formerly SSB 1135.)
Link to BillBookSF 446 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 SF 265.)
Link to BillBookSF 450 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 SSB 1092.)
Link to BillBookSF 510 A bill for an act relating to elective social studies courses emphasizing religious scripture that school districts may offer and teach.(Formerly SF 138.)
Link to BillBookSF 516 A bill for an act directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on the cognitive function and academic performance of students.(Formerly SF 237; See SF 2335.)
Link to BillBookSF 517 A bill for an act relating to child abuse and employees and agents of public schools and nonpublic schools.(Formerly SF 221.)
Link to BillBookSF 518 A bill for an act requiring school employees to be put on administrative leave in certain specified circumstances.(Formerly SF 366.)
Link to BillBookSF 519 A bill for an act establishing a school of intellectual freedom at the university of Iowa.(Formerly SF 127.)
Link to BillBookSF 520 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to community college and department of education reporting requirements, employees of the Iowa educational services for the blind and visually impaired program or the Iowa school for the deaf, and employment contracts between community colleges and community college instructors.(Formerly SSB 1075.)
Link to BillBookSJR 2012 A joint resolution supporting devolution of power from the United States department of education to the states.(Formerly SJR 2008.)
Link to BillBookSF 2144 A bill for an act relating to school district general fund flexibility accounts by expanding eligible funding sources and modifying expenditure approval requirements.(Formerly SF 2043.)
Link to BillBookSF 2201 A bill for an act relating to school funding by establishing the state percent of growth and the categorical state percent of growth for the budget year beginning July 1, 2026, modifying provisions relating to property tax replacement payments, transportation equity aid funding, funding for school district budget adjustments, and school district enrollment, establishing an education support personnel salary supplement, making appropriations, and including effective date and applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3100.) Effective date: 02/26/2026, 07/01/2026. Applicability date: 07/01/2026.
Link to BillBookSF 2218 A bill for an act relating to the verification of the identity and employment eligibility of individuals by the board of educational examiners, school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3015.)
Link to BillBookSF 2219 A bill for an act requiring boards of directors of school districts, governing boards of charter schools, and authorities in charge of accredited nonpublic schools to adopt policies related to exempting student absences for 4-H club or FFA activities. (Formerly SSB 3041.)
Link to BillBookSF 2220 A bill for an act relating to education, including by modifying provisions related to the Iowa statewide assessment of student progress and programs for gifted and talented children, and by requiring school districts to develop an advanced mathematics pathway and implement procedures for subject acceleration and whole-grade acceleration.(Formerly SSB 3042.)
Link to BillBookSF 2221 A bill for an act requiring the board of educational examiners to establish additional endorsements for instruction related to fine arts, mathematics, and science.(Formerly SSB 3043.)
Link to BillBookSF 2222 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 SSB 3048.)
Link to BillBookSF 2223 A bill for an act relating to career education, including by modifying provisions related to career academies, the collective statewide articulation agreement between community colleges and the state board of regents, the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program, and individual career and academic plans.(Formerly SSB 3049.)
Link to BillBookSF 2224 A bill for an act relating to computer science education, including by modifying provisions related to standards for computer science education, the curriculum provided to students enrolled in grades nine through twelve, and practitioner preparation programs, and including applicability provisions. (Formerly SSB 3050.)
Link to BillBookSF 2227 A bill for an act relating to tuition charged to resident undergraduate students enrolled at regents institutions.(Formerly SF 2002.)
Link to BillBookSF 2231 A bill for an act relating to eligibility and participation requirements for certain education programs, preschool programs, and tax provisions, and including retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2060.)
Link to BillBookSF 2232 A bill for an act relating to general education requirements, core curricula, other functions of regents institutions, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2033.)
Link to BillBookSF 2299 A bill for an act relating to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program.(Formerly SF 2176.)
Link to BillBookSF 2300 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 SF 2062.)
Link to BillBookSF 2303 A bill for an act providing for a review of undergraduate general education requirements and core curricula at regents institutions and authorizing elimination of certain required courses and course requirements.(Formerly SF 2063.)
Link to BillBookSF 2319 A bill for an act relating to the inclusion of the your life Iowa program on public school internet sites.(Formerly SF 2084.)
Link to BillBookSF 2320 A bill for an act modifying provisions related to the district-to-community college sharing or concurrent enrollment program.(Formerly SF 2170.)
Link to BillBookSF 2335 A bill for an act directing the department of education to convene a working group to study the impact of technology on the cognitive function and academic performance of students.(Formerly SF 516, SF 237.)
Link to BillBookSF 2336 A bill for an act requiring annual reports on and the prohibition of antisemitism in community colleges, regents institutions, and public school districts.(Formerly SSB 3095.)
Link to BillBookSF 2351 A bill for an act relating to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2116.)
Link to BillBookSF 2358 A bill for an act relating to the maximum driving distance of unsupervised persons issued a special minor’s restricted driver’s license who are enrolled at an accredited nonpublic school.(Formerly SSB 3108.)
Link to BillBookSF 2359 A bill for an act relating to selection committees for presidents of regents institutions.(Formerly SF 2143.)
Link to BillBookSF 2361 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 SSB 3073.)
Link to BillBookSF 2390 A bill for an act establishing the school health-related emergency response plan competitive grant program within the department of education, making appropriations, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2092.)
Link to BillBookSF 2391 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 SSB 3163.)
Link to BillBookSF 2392 A bill for an act relating to interscholastic athletic scrimmages between schools and nonaccredited home school sports organizations, and including effective date provisions.(Formerly SF 2212.)
Link to BillBookSF 2403 A bill for an act relating to incentives for whole grade sharing and school district reorganization or dissolution.(Formerly SSB 3146.)
Link to BillBookSF 2404 A bill for an act requiring the department of education to develop and administer a pilot program that requires certain specified school districts to establish attendance centers for students requiring special education and students with behavioral issues. (Formerly SF 2181.)
Link to BillBookSF 2405 A bill for an act relating to trainings and curricula regarding specific defined concepts provided by public institutions of higher education and school districts.(Formerly SF 2174.)
Link to BillBookSF 2406 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 SSB 3170.)
Link to BillBookSF 2407 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 SSB 3164.)
Link to BillBookSF 2413 A bill for an act relating to social studies instruction provided to students enrolled in grades seven and eight, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2121.)
Link to BillBookSF 2424 A bill for an act relating to vaccination exemptions for certain students in clinical rotations and the qualification of postsecondary schools as eligible institutions for Iowa tuition grants, and providing civil penalties.(Formerly SF 2095.)
Link to BillBookSF 2425 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 four-year-old children, education savings accounts, independent accrediting agencies, teacher training and licensure, and making appropriations, and including applicability and retroactive applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2175.)
Link to BillBookSF 2428 A bill for an act relating to the responsibilities of school districts and charter schools related to the discipline of students who cause violent or nonviolent disruptions. (Formerly SF 2044.)