House File 373 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 373 BY SWEENEY A BILL FOR An Act requiring health classes to be taught by practitioners 1 holding certain endorsements and including effective date 2 provisions. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2462YH (2) 84 je/nh
H.F. 373 Section 1. Section 256.11, Code 2011, is amended by adding 1 the following new subsection: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 5A. Teaching in the area of health pursuant 3 to subsections 3 and 4 and subsection 5, paragraph “j” , shall be 4 carried out by a licensed practitioner who holds at least one 5 of the following: 6 a. An endorsement in the area of health as provided in 7 282 IAC 13.28(8) and an endorsement in the area of family and 8 consumer sciences——general as provided in 282 IAC 13.28(9). 9 b. An endorsement in the area of health as provided in 10 282 IAC 13.28(8) and an endorsement in the area of biological 11 science as provided in 282 IAC 13.28(17)(b). 12 c. A school nurse endorsement as provided in 282 IAC 13 13.28(28). 14 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act takes effect July 1, 2013. 15 EXPLANATION 16 This bill provides that required health classes in public 17 and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools be taught by 18 licensed practitioners who hold endorsements in the areas of 19 health and family and consumer science; the areas of health and 20 biological science; or as a school nurse. 21 The bill is effective July 1, 2013. 22 -1- LSB 2462YH (2) 84 je/nh 1/ 1