Senate File 58 - Introduced SENATE FILE 58 BY HOGG and MATHIS A BILL FOR An Act requiring that human growth and development instruction 1 by school boards include information regarding dating 2 violence and voluntary consent to engage in sexual activity. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1814XS (5) 89 kh/jh
S.F. 58 Section 1. Section 279.50, subsection 2, Code 2021, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 2. Each school board shall provide age-appropriate and 3 research-based instruction in human growth and development 4 including instruction regarding human sexuality , ; self-esteem , ; 5 stress management , ; interpersonal relationships , ; dating 6 violence; affirmative, conscious, and voluntary consent 7 to engage in sexual activity; domestic abuse , ; HPV and the 8 availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV , ; and acquired immune 9 deficiency syndrome , as required in section 256.11 , in grades 10 one through twelve. 11 EXPLANATION 12 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 13 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 14 This bill provides that the age-appropriate and 15 research-based instruction in human growth and development, 16 which each school board must provide, must include instruction 17 regarding dating violence and affirmative, conscious, and 18 voluntary consent to engage in sexual activity. 19 -1- LSB 1814XS (5) 89 kh/jh 1/ 1