SF 432 (LSB 2711XS (3) 88)

SENATE FILE 432

BY  QUIRMBACH, DOTZLER, T. TAYLOR, CELSI, J. SMITH, JOCHUM, PETERSEN, and RAGAN

A BILL FOR

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

    Section 1.  Section 279.50, subsection 2, Code 2019, 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.