HF 504 (LSB 2483YH (3) 88)

HOUSE FILE 504

BY  BENNETT, STAED, HUNTER, and BROWN-POWERS

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the health education requirement for grades nine through twelve under the education standards.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 256.11, subsection 5, paragraph j, subparagraph (1), Code 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  One unit of health education which shall include personal health; food and nutrition; environmental health; safety and survival skills; consumer health; family life; age-appropriate and research-based human growth and development; substance abuse and nonuse; emotional and social health, including mental health awareness, coping skills, and suicide prevention; health resources; and prevention and control of disease, including age-appropriate and research-based information regarding sexually transmitted diseases, including HPV and the availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill adds mental health awareness, coping skills, and suicide prevention to the subject matter that must be included in the unit of health education which school districts and accredited nonpublic schools must offer and teach in grades 9-12.