H-1204

   Amend Senate File 345, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  Page 1, line 2, by striking <subsection> and inserting <subsections>
   2.  Page 1, after line 8 by inserting: 
   <NEW SUBSECTION.  67.  In order to encourage the promotion of moral improvement as required in Article IX, 2nd, section 3, of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, develop and implement procedures for teaching the moral and ethical precept in all public schools of treating one another as we want to be treated, and the generous distribution of moral and ethical teaching materials including but not limited to the Bible in all public school classrooms. The department shall contract with benevolent organizations for the procurement and distribution of Bibles and other moral and ethical teaching materials in public school classrooms at no cost to the state, political subdivisions including school districts, or any other public entity. Instruction provided pursuant to this subsection shall at all times be presented in an objective and secular manner. This subsection shall not be construed to require students to read the Bible or other moral or ethical teaching materials as devotional materials or to engage in or be present for any devotional activities.>

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HEARTSILL of Marion

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GASSMAN of Winnebago

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SALMON of Black Hawk

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SHEETS of Appanoose

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BAXTER of Hancock

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HOLT of Crawford

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FISHER of Tama

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WATTS of Dallas

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KOOIKER of Sioux

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MAXWELL of Poweshiek

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LANDON of Polk

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KOESTER of Polk