Senate File 2231 H-8267 Amend Senate File 2231, as passed by the Senate, as follows: 1 1. Page 1, before line 1 by inserting: 2 < Section 1. Section 256.11, subsection 3, paragraph a, 3 subparagraph (2), Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: 4 (2) Social studies. The social studies curriculum shall 5 include instruction related to all of the following: 6 (a) The workings of the federal, state, and local levels of 7 government. 8 (b) The rights and responsibilities of citizens of the 9 United States and the state of Iowa. 10 (c) The history of the secular and religious ideals and 11 institutions of liberty, including political, religious, 12 economic, social, and cultural liberty, in western 13 civilization, the United States, and the state of Iowa, which 14 emphasizes the good, worthwhile, and best achievements of these 15 ideals and institutions of liberty. 16 (d) Exemplary figures in western civilization, the United 17 States, and the state of Iowa who have fought to secure 18 liberty. 19 (e) The cultural heritage of western civilization, the 20 United States, and the state of Iowa. 21 (f) The geography of the United States and the state of 22 Iowa. 23 (g) The history and meaning of the United States flag and 24 the national anthem. 25 (h) Admirable Americans, including Benjamin Franklin, 26 George Washington, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 27 and Abraham Lincoln. 28 Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 3, Code 2026, is 29 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 30 NEW PARAGRAPH . 0c. During grades five and six, the 31 instruction provided as part of the social studies curriculum 32 shall incorporate the study of documents that are important 33 to the history of the United States, including all of the 34 following: 35 -1- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 1/ 12 #1.

(1) The Mayflower compact. 1 (2) Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine. 2 (3) The Declaration of Independence. 3 (4) The Articles of Confederation. 4 (5) The Pennsylvania Act for the gradual abolition of 5 slavery. 6 (6) The Virginia statute for religious freedom. 7 (7) The northwest ordinance. 8 (8) The Constitution of the United States. 9 (9) The federalist papers, including federalist number ten 10 and federalist number fifty-one. 11 (10) A transcript of George Washington’s farewell address. 12 (11) Relevant excerpts from Democracy in America written by 13 Alexis de Tocqueville. 14 (12) A transcript of the first debate between Abraham 15 Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. 16 (13) The Emancipation Proclamation. 17 (14) The writings of the founding fathers. 18 Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 4, paragraph a, 19 subparagraph (2), Code 2026, is amended to read as follows: 20 (2) (a) Social studies , including instruction related 21 to civics . The social studies curriculum shall require at 22 least one semester of instruction, or the trimester or quarter 23 equivalent, in each of the following areas: 24 (i) Civics, which shall include instruction related to all 25 of the following: 26 (A) The intellectual sources of the United States’ founding 27 documents. 28 (B) The political and military narrative of the causes and 29 progress of the American Revolution. 30 (C) The United States’ founding documents and the original 31 intent of such documents. 32 (D) The Constitution of the United States, with emphasis on 33 the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of the State of Iowa. 34 (E) The basic principles of the United States’ republican 35 -2- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 2/ 12

form of government. 1 (F) The historical development of the United States’ 2 republican form of government. 3 (G) The United States’ republican form of government 4 compared with different forms of government including 5 dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy, theocracy, communism, and 6 autocracy. 7 (H) The structure, function, and processes of government 8 institutions at the federal, state, and local levels. 9 (I) The civic virtues exemplified in the lives of famous 10 Americans. 11 (ii) United States history, which shall include instruction 12 related to all of the following: 13 (A) The study of and devotion to the United States’ 14 exceptional and praiseworthy history. 15 (B) The basic political, diplomatic, and military history 16 of the United States, which shall include the period of 17 discovery, early colonies, the War of Independence, the 18 Civil War, the expansion of the United States to its present 19 boundaries, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the civil 20 rights movement, and the period of time from the September 11 21 attacks to the present day, which shall incorporate the study 22 of primary source documents. 23 (C) The basic history of business and technology in the 24 United States, which shall incorporate the study of primary 25 source documents. 26 (D) The basic history of the religious and secular aspects 27 of the United States’ common culture, which shall incorporate 28 the study of primary source documents. 29 (E) The concept that United States history shall be viewed 30 as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable, 31 teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation 32 of a new nation based largely on the universal principles 33 stated in the Declaration of Independence. 34 (iii) The history of western civilization, which shall 35 -3- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 3/ 12

include instruction that constitutes an extended, coherent 1 account of western civilization, from Athens, Jerusalem, and 2 Rome to the present day, to understand the nature of the 3 nation’s ideals and institutions of liberty, how such ideals 4 and institutions of liberty came into existence, and what 5 actions the nation’s forefathers took to preserve them. 6 (iv) Iowa history, to be taught during grade eight, which 7 shall include instruction related to all of the following: 8 (A) The history of the founding of Iowa. 9 (B) The history of famous Iowans and their involvement in 10 important events in history. 11 (C) How Iowans have impacted government, policies, issues, 12 and procedures over the years. 13 (D) The history of the state motto, bird, tree, and rock. 14 (v) Economics, to be taught during grade eight. The 15 economics instruction shall focus on the free enterprise system 16 and its benefits. The economics curriculum shall include 17 instruction related to the failures of economic systems of 18 communist regimes and the difference between capitalist and 19 communist economic systems. 20 (b) The social studies curriculum shall include instruction 21 related to admirable Americans, including Benjamin Franklin, 22 George Washington, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 23 and Abraham Lincoln. 24 (c) The instruction provided as part of the social studies 25 curriculum shall incorporate the study of documents that are 26 important to the history of the United States, including all 27 of the following: 28 (i) The Mayflower compact. 29 (ii) Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine. 30 (iii) The Declaration of Independence. 31 (iv) The Articles of Confederation. 32 (v) The Pennsylvania Act for the gradual abolition of 33 slavery. 34 (vi) The Virginia statute for religious freedom. 35 -4- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 4/ 12

(vii) The northwest ordinance. 1 (viii) The Constitution of the United States. 2 (ix) The federalist papers, including federalist number ten 3 and federalist number fifty-one. 4 (x) A transcript of George Washington’s farewell address. 5 (xi) Relevant excerpts from Democracy in America written by 6 Alexis de Tocqueville. 7 (xii) A transcript of the first debate between Abraham 8 Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. 9 (xiii) The Emancipation Proclamation. 10 (xiv) The writings of the founding fathers. 11 Sec. ___. Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph b, Code 12 2026, is amended to read as follows: 13 b. Five units of the social studies including instruction 14 in voting statutes and procedures, voter registration 15 requirements, the use of paper ballots and voting systems in 16 the election process, and the method of acquiring and casting 17 an absentee ballot . All students shall complete a minimum of 18 one-half unit of United States government , and one unit of 19 civics, two units of United States history , and one unit of 20 western civilization . The social studies curriculum shall not 21 include any advanced placement course that requires action 22 civics. The social studies curriculum shall incorporate the 23 study of documents that are important to the history of the 24 United States, including the Mayflower compact; Common Sense, 25 written by Thomas Paine; the Declaration of Independence; the 26 Articles of Confederation; the Pennsylvania Act for the gradual 27 abolition of slavery; the Virginia statute for religious 28 freedom; the northwest ordinance; the Constitution of the 29 United States; the federalist papers, including federalist 30 number ten and federalist number fifty-one; a transcript of 31 George Washington’s farewell address; relevant excerpts from 32 Democracy in America written by Alexis de Tocqueville; a 33 transcript of the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and 34 Stephen A. Douglas; the Emancipation Proclamation; and the 35 -5- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 5/ 12

writings of the founding fathers. 1 (1) The one-half unit of United States government shall 2 include the voting procedure as described in this lettered 3 paragraph and section 280.9A and other instruction related 4 to voting statutes and procedures, voter registration 5 requirements, the use of paper ballots and voting systems in 6 the election process, and the method of acquiring and casting 7 an absentee ballot . The government instruction shall also 8 include a study of the Constitution of the United States 9 and the Bill of Rights contained in the Constitution and an 10 assessment of a student’s knowledge of the Constitution and the 11 Bill of Rights. 12 (2) The one unit of civics shall not include any 13 requirements related to political activism, service learning, 14 civic engagement, action civics, or any cognate activity. The 15 one unit of civics shall include instruction related to all of 16 the following: 17 (a) The intellectual sources of the United States’ 18 founding documents, including documents that illustrate the 19 Greek, Hebrew, and Roman exemplars of liberty and republican 20 government; the Christian synthesis of Greek, Hebrew, and Roman 21 thought that emphasized the equal dignity of all individual 22 humans in the eyes of God; the medieval English inheritance 23 of common law, jury, local self-government, liberty, and 24 representative government; the early modern English inheritance 25 of Christian liberty, republicanism, the militia, accountable 26 government, mixed government, parliamentary sovereignty, 27 freedom of the press, and the English bill of rights and 28 toleration Act; the colonial American inheritance of Christian 29 liberty, self-government, and local government; and the 30 enlightenment theories of John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, 31 and their contemporaries that universalized the European 32 traditions of liberty. 33 (b) The political and military narrative of the causes and 34 progress of the American revolution. 35 -6- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 6/ 12

(c) The original intent of the documents described in 1 unnumbered paragraph 1. 2 (d) The Constitution of the United States, with an emphasis 3 on the Bill of Rights contained in the Constitution, and the 4 Constitution of the State of Iowa. 5 (e) The basic principles of the United States’ republican 6 form of government and the institutions and principles to 7 preserve liberty and prevent misuse of government power, 8 including balance of power; consent of the governed; the 9 electoral college; federalism and the division of powers 10 between the federal government and the states; individual 11 liberties; rights of life, liberty, and property; popular 12 sovereignty; religious freedom; an educated citizenry; 13 representative government; civilian control of the military; 14 rule of law; control of faction; checks and balances; and 15 separation of powers among the executive, the legislature, and 16 the judiciary. 17 (f) The historical development of the United States’ 18 republican form of government, including the federalist and 19 antifederalist debates; the rise and role of political parties; 20 the rise of Jacksonian democracy; the expansion of the ideals 21 and institutions of liberty and republican self-government 22 to include all Americans, regardless of sex or race; the 23 causes and the constitutional consequences of the Civil War; 24 the thirteenth amendment, fourteenth amendment, fifteenth 25 amendment, and the nineteenth amendment; the rise of the new 26 deal administrative state; and United States Supreme Court 27 cases, including Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, 28 Dred Scott v. Sandford, Pembina consolidated silver mining co. 29 v. Pennsylvania, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of 30 Education. 31 (g) The United States’ republican form of government 32 compared with different forms of government including 33 dictatorship, monarchy, oligarchy, theocracy, communism, and 34 autocracy. 35 -7- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 7/ 12

(h) The structure, function, and processes of governmental 1 institutions at the federal, state, and local levels. 2 (i) Civic virtues exemplified in the lives of famous 3 Americans, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, 4 Alexander Hamilton, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew 5 Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Abraham Lincoln, 6 Ulysses S. Grant, Ely Parker, Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, 7 Walter Reed, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Curtis, Will Rogers, 8 Jim Thorpe, Jackie Robinson, George Marshall, Martin Luther 9 King, Jr., Richard Feynman, Neil Armstrong, and Ronald Reagan. 10 (3) The two units of United States history shall include an 11 assessment of the student’s knowledge of important historical 12 documents, including the Declaration of Independence, 13 the Constitution of the United States, the Emancipation 14 Proclamation, and excerpts from the federalist papers. One 15 unit of United States history shall focus on the period 16 of time beginning when the Mayflower landed on Cape Cod to 17 the conclusion of the Civil War. The other unit of United 18 States history shall focus on the period of time beginning 19 at the conclusion of the Civil War to the present day, which 20 unit shall include instruction related to the Holocaust and 21 crimes against humanity that have occurred under communist 22 regimes. The two units of United States history shall include 23 significant material related to the War of Independence and 24 the creation of the Constitution of the United States. The 25 two units of United States history shall be designed to 26 include significant biographical material related to exemplary 27 Americans to provide both the nation’s shared constitutional 28 history and historical context. The two units of United 29 States history shall include instruction related to all of the 30 following: 31 (a) The United States’ exceptional and praiseworthy 32 history. 33 (b) The basic political, diplomatic, and military history 34 of the United States, which shall include the period of 35 -8- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 8/ 12

discovery, early colonies, the War of Independence, the 1 Civil War, the expansion of the United States to its present 2 boundaries, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the civil 3 rights movement, and the period of time from the September 11 4 attacks to the present day, which shall incorporate the study 5 of primary source documents. 6 (c) The basic history of business and technology in the 7 United States, which shall incorporate the study of primary 8 source documents. 9 (d) The basic history of the religious and secular aspects 10 of the United States’ common culture, which shall incorporate 11 the study of primary source documents. 12 (e) The concept that United States history shall be viewed 13 as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as knowable, 14 teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation 15 of a new nation based largely on the universal principles 16 stated in the Declaration of Independence. 17 (4) The one unit of western civilization shall include 18 instruction related to all of the following: 19 (a) Western civilization’s exceptional and praiseworthy 20 history. 21 (b) The basic political outline of western civilization, 22 which shall include the history of ancient Israel, the free 23 Greek city states, the Roman republic, the Roman empire, the 24 Carolingian empire, the medieval Papacy, medieval England, 25 absolutist France, parliamentary England, the Napoleonic 26 wars, World War I, World War II, the communist and fascist 27 challenges to the European order, and the survival and triumph 28 of political and economic liberty, which shall incorporate the 29 study of primary source documents. 30 (c) The basic intellectual history of western civilization, 31 which shall include its Greek, Hebrew, and Roman sources; 32 the Christian synthesis of those Greek, Hebrew, and Roman 33 sources that emphasized the equal dignity of all individual 34 humans in the eyes of God; the renaissance rediscovery of 35 -9- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 9/ 12

republican liberty; the reformation; the medieval and early 1 modern English ideals and institutions of common law, jury, 2 the militia, local self-government, political and religious 3 liberty, representative government, accountable government, 4 and parliamentary sovereignty; the scientific revolution; 5 the enlightenment ideals of political and economic liberty; 6 the nineteenth-century formulation of the scientific and 7 humanist disciplines; the emergence of modern conservatism and 8 liberalism; and the challenges to liberty of socialism and 9 fascism, which shall incorporate the study of primary source 10 documents. 11 (d) The basic history of science and technology in western 12 civilization, which shall emphasize Europe’s unique role as the 13 matrix of the modern scientific and industrial world, which 14 shall incorporate the study of primary source documents. 15 (e) The basic economic history of western civilization, 16 which shall emphasize Europe’s unique role as the matrix of 17 modern mass prosperity, which emerged from the interplay 18 of the ideals and institutions of economic liberty, secure 19 property rights, entrepreneurial innovation, and the industrial 20 revolution, which shall incorporate the study of primary source 21 documents. 22 (f) The basic history of the religious and secular aspects 23 of western civilization’s cultures, which shall emphasize the 24 protective aspects of liberty and incorporate the study of 25 primary source documents. 26 (g) The basic history of the fruitful and enduring 27 attachment of western civilization’s free peoples to their 28 nations and faiths, which shall incorporate the study of 29 primary source documents. 30 (h) The concept that western civilization’s history shall 31 be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as 32 knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the 33 creation of a civilization based largely on the ideals and 34 institutions of liberty. > 35 -10- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 10/ 12

2. Page 2, before line 10 by inserting: 1 < Sec. ___. Section 256E.7, subsection 2, paragraph h, Code 2 2026, is amended by adding the following new subparagraph: 3 NEW SUBPARAGRAPH . (02) The educational standards of 4 section 256.11 relating to social studies instruction for 5 grades one through twelve. 6 Sec. ___. Section 256F.4, subsection 2, Code 2026, is 7 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 8 NEW PARAGRAPH . 0q. Be subject to and comply with the 9 requirements of section 256.11, subsections 3 and 4, and 10 section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph “b” , relating to social 11 studies instruction in the same manner as a school district. > 12 3. Page 4, before line 20 by inserting: 13 < Sec. ___. Section 262.9, Code 2026, is amended by adding 14 the following new subsection: 15 NEW SUBSECTION . 43. Prohibit the institutions of higher 16 education under its control from awarding students any semester 17 hours of credit for courses that require action civics or 18 political activism. > 19 4. Page 6, before line 32 by inserting: 20 < Sec. ___. STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED. In accordance 21 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring 22 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall 23 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid 24 received by the school district under section 257.16. This 25 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed 26 to meet all of the state funding-related requirements of 27 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding 28 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act 29 by and enforcement of this Act against all affected school 30 districts. 31 Sec. ___. NO IMPACT ON GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS. The section 32 of this Act amending section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph 33 “b”, shall not affect the graduation requirements applicable 34 to a student enrolled in grades nine through twelve as of the 35 -11- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 11/ 12 #2. #3. #4.

effective date of this Act. 1 Sec. ___. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION —— DRAFT SOCIAL STUDIES 2 STANDARDS. The department of education shall not use the 3 draft social studies standards that the department adopted 4 in 2025 pursuant to 2024 Iowa Acts, chapter 1159, for any 5 instructional, curricular, assessment, accreditation, 6 licensing, certification, professional development, or 7 evaluative purpose. > 8 5. Title page, by striking lines 1 through 4 and inserting 9 < An Act relating to education, including modifying provisions 10 related to the social studies instruction provided to students 11 enrolled in grades one through twelve, the educational 12 programs provided by the institutions of higher education 13 under the control of the state board of regents, eligibility 14 and participation requirements for certain education programs, 15 preschool programs, and tax provisions, and including 16 retroactive applicability provisions. > 17 6. By renumbering as necessary. 18 ______________________________ WHEELER of Sioux -12- SF 2231.3617 (1) 91 mb/jh 12/ 12 #5. #6.