S-3070

   Amend  the amendment, S-3069, to Senate File 496, as follows:
   1.  By striking page 1, line 2, through page 4, line 27, and inserting: 
   <1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 256.11, subsection 2, Code 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  The kindergarten program shall include experiences designed to develop healthy emotional and social habits and growth in the language arts and communication skills, as well as a capacity for the completion of individual tasks, and protect and increase physical well-being with attention given to experiences relating to the development of life skills and age-appropriate and research-based human growth and development. A kindergarten teacher shall be licensed to teach in kindergarten. An accredited nonpublic school must meet the requirements of this subsection only if the nonpublic school offers a kindergarten program.
   Sec. 2.  Section 256E.7, subsection 2, Code 2023, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0j.  Be subject to and comply with the requirements of section 280.33 relating to the publication of a list of topics covered when providing human growth and development instruction, and the adoption of a policy allowing the parent or guardian of a student to excuse the student from instruction related to a selected topic or selected topics in the health or human growth and development instruction, in the same manner as a school district.
   Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  279.77  Library catalog.
   1.  Each school district shall maintain a publicly available catalog of books and other materials that are available to be checked out in libraries operated by the school district.
   2.  a.  Each school district that maintains in electronic form a catalog of books and other materials that are available to be checked out in libraries operated by the school district as of this effective date of this Act shall do all of the following:
   (1)  Publish the catalog on the school district’s internet site on or before January 1, 2026.
   (2)  As of the effective date of this Act and until the school district publishes the catalog on the school district’s internet site pursuant to subparagraph (1), grant physical access to the catalog to members of the general public for at least three hours each week during the school year, not including during the summer months when school is not in session or during a vacation period, at times that are convenient to the general public.
   (3)  Publish the dates and times the school district will grant physical access to the catalog to members of the general public on the school district’s internet site.
   b.  Each school district that maintains in other than electronic form a catalog of books and other materials that are available to be checked out in libraries operated by the school district shall do all of the following:
   (1)  Grant physical access to the catalog to members of the general public for at least three hours each week during the school year, not including during the summer months when school is not in session or during a vacation period, at times that are convenient to the general public.
   (2)  Publish the dates and times the school district will grant physical access to the catalog to members of the general public on the school district’s internet site.
   Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  279.78  Parent or guardian request to prohibit a student from checking out books or materials from a school library.
   1.  a.  A parent or guardian who has physical custody of a student enrolled in a school district may submit a signed notice to the school district requesting that the student be prohibited from checking out from a library operated by the school district a book or any other material that is described in the notice and included in the catalog maintained by the school district pursuant to section 279.77.
   b.  A parent or guardian who has physical custody of a student enrolled in a school district may submit the notice described in paragraph “a” beginning two weeks prior to the start date of the school district’s school calendar and at any time during the school calendar year. A notice submitted pursuant to paragraph “a” shall be valid for the current school year and the succeeding school year and may be renewed by the parent or guardian at any time.
   2.  Each school district shall maintain a list of the notices submitted pursuant to subsection 1 that remain valid. The only school district employees who may access the list are qualified teacher librarians and administrators. The list shall be confidential and shall not be a public record subject to disclosure under chapter 22. For purposes of this subsection, “administrator” means the same as defined in section 272.1.
   3.  A school district shall not allow a student enrolled in the school district to check out a book or any other material from a library operated by the school district if the list described in subsection 2 indicates that a parent or guardian who has physical custody of the student submitted a notice described in subsection 1, paragraph “a”, requesting that the student be prohibited from checking out the book or other material.
   Sec. 5.  NEW SECTION.  280.33  Human growth and development instruction.
   1.  The board of directors of each public school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall publish on the school district’s or accredited nonpublic school’s internet site a list of the topics the school district or accredited nonpublic school covers when providing the human growth and development instruction required under section 256.11, subsections 2, 3, and 4.
   2.  a.  The board of directors of each public school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall adopt a policy that allows a parent or guardian who has physical custody of a student enrolled in the school district or accredited nonpublic school to excuse the student from any classes, lectures, assignments, activities, or any other instruction related to any selected topic or topics in the health or human growth and development instruction in the student’s grade, as specified by the parent or guardian, by submitting a request to the school district or accredited nonpublic school.
   b.  The policy described in paragraph “a” must include a copy of the form to be used by a parent or guardian to excuse the student from any classes, lectures, assignments, activities, or any other instruction related to any selected topic or topics in the health or human growth and development instruction.
   c.  The board of directors of each public school district and the authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall annually inform the parents and guardians of students enrolled in the school district of the opportunity to excuse a student from any classes, lectures, assignments, activities, or any other instruction related to any selected topic or topics in the health or human growth and development instruction.
   3.  The requirements in this section applicable to public school districts are in addition to the requirements provided in section 279.50.>
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HERMAN C. QUIRMBACH