SF 2195 (LSB 5679SV (1) 86)

SENATE FILE 2195

BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 2077)

A BILL FOR

An Act requiring that human growth and development instruction by school boards include age-appropriate information regarding dating violence and prevention.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 279.50, subsection 2, Code 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Each school board shall provide age-appropriate and research-based instruction in human growth and development including instruction regarding human sexuality,; self-esteem,; stress management,; interpersonal relationships,; dating violence; affirmative, conscious, and voluntary consent to engage in sexual activity; domestic abuse,; HPV and the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV,; and acquired immune deficiency syndrome, as required in section 256.11, in grades one through twelve.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that the age-appropriate and research-based instruction in human growth and development, which each school board must provide, must include instruction regarding dating violence and affirmative, conscious, and voluntary consent to engage in sexual activity.