Bill Text: IA HF161 | 2017-2018 | 87th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to child sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-03-28 - Subcommittee recommends passage. [HF161 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2017-HF161-Introduced.html

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House File 161 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  HEARTSILL

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to child sexual abuse and sexual assault
  2    awareness and prevention.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 256.9, subsection 46, paragraph a, Code
  1  2 2017, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    a.  Develop and make available to school districts,
  1  4 examples of age=appropriate, developmentally appropriate, and
  1  5 research=based materials and lists of resources which parents
  1  6 may use to teach their children to recognize unwanted physical
  1  7 and verbal sexual advances, to not make unwanted physical and
  1  8 verbal sexual advances, to effectively reject unwanted sexual
  1  9 advances, that it is wrong to take advantage of or exploit
  1 10 another person, about the dangers of sexual exploitation by
  1 11 means of the internet including specific strategies to help
  1 12 students protect themselves and their personally identifiable
  1 13 information from such exploitation, and about counseling,
  1 14 medical, and legal resources available to survivors of sexual
  1 15 abuse and sexual assault, including resources for escaping
  1 16 violent relationships. The materials and resources shall cover
  1 17 child sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention,
  1 18  verbal, physical, and visual sexual harassment, including
  1 19 nonconsensual sexual advances, and nonconsensual physical
  1 20 sexual contact. In developing the materials and resource list,
  1 21 the director shall consult with entities that shall include
  1 22 but not be limited to the departments of human services,
  1 23 public health, and public safety, education stakeholders,
  1 24 and parent=teacher organizations. School districts shall
  1 25 provide age=appropriate, developmentally appropriate, and
  1 26 research=based materials and a list of available community and
  1 27 internet=based resources to parents at registration and shall
  1 28 also include the age=appropriate, developmentally appropriate,
  1 29  and research=based materials and resource list in the student
  1 30 handbook. School districts are encouraged to work with their
  1 31 communities to provide voluntary parent education sessions to
  1 32 provide parents with the skills and appropriate strategies
  1 33 to teach their children as described in this subsection.
  1 34 School districts shall incorporate the age=appropriate,
  1 35 developmentally appropriate, and research=based materials
  2  1 into relevant curricula and shall reinforce with parents and
  2  2 students the importance of preventive measures when reasonable
  2  3 with parents and students.
  2  4    Sec. 2.  Section 256.9, subsection 46, Code 2017, is amended
  2  5 by adding the following new paragraph:
  2  6    NEW PARAGRAPH.  c.  Seek and use funds available to the
  2  7 department under the federal Elementary and Secondary Education
  2  8 Act of 1965, 20 U.S.C. {6301 et seq., as amended by the federal
  2  9 Every Student Succeeds Act, Pub. L. No. 114=95, Tit. II,
  2 10 {{2001=2104, and Tit. IV, {{4001=4101, to provide to school
  2 11 districts with approved applications for allocations from
  2 12 such funds training for school district personnel, including
  2 13 teachers, principals, other school leaders, specialized
  2 14 instructional support personnel, and para=educators, regarding
  2 15 how to prevent and recognize child sexual abuse and regarding
  2 16 child sexual abuse awareness and prevention programs or
  2 17 activities, such as programs or activities designed to provide
  2 18 age=appropriate and developmentally appropriate instruction
  2 19 for students in child sexual abuse awareness and prevention,
  2 20 including how to recognize child sexual abuse and how to safely
  2 21 report child sexual abuse, and to provide information for
  2 22 parents and guardians of students about child sexual abuse
  2 23 awareness and prevention, including how to recognize child
  2 24 sexual abuse and how to discuss child sexual abuse with a
  2 25 child.
  2 26    Sec. 3.  Section 272.2, Code 2017, is amended by adding the
  2 27 following new subsection:
  2 28    NEW SUBSECTION.  20.  Adopt rules establishing that
  2 29 continuing education requirements for issuance, renewal, or
  2 30 upgrade of a license may include participating in or presenting
  2 31 at in=service training programs on child sexual abuse and
  2 32 sexual assault awareness and prevention.
  2 33    Sec. 4.  Section 279.50, Code 2017, is amended by adding the
  2 34 following new subsection:
  2 35    NEW SUBSECTION.  2A.  The human growth and development
  3  1 curriculum shall include age=appropriate, developmentally
  3  2 appropriate, and research=based instruction for students in
  3  3 child sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention,
  3  4 including how to recognize child sexual abuse and sexual
  3  5 assault and how to safely report child sexual abuse and sexual
  3  6 assault.
  3  7    Sec. 5.  STATE MANDATE FUNDING SPECIFIED.  In accordance
  3  8 with section 25B.2, subsection 3, the state cost of requiring
  3  9 compliance with any state mandate included in this Act shall
  3 10 be paid by a school district from state school foundation aid
  3 11 received by the school district under section 257.16.  This
  3 12 specification of the payment of the state cost shall be deemed
  3 13 to meet all of the state funding=related requirements of
  3 14 section 25B.2, subsection 3, and no additional state funding
  3 15 shall be necessary for the full implementation of this Act
  3 16 by and enforcement of this Act against all affected school
  3 17 districts.
  3 18                           EXPLANATION
  3 19 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  3 20 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  3 21    This bill relates to child sexual abuse and sexual assault
  3 22 awareness and prevention by directing the board of educational
  3 23 examiners to adopt rules establishing that continuing education
  3 24 requirements for issuing, renewing, or upgrading of a license
  3 25 may include but are not limited to participating in or
  3 26 presenting at in=service training programs on child sexual
  3 27 abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention.  The bill
  3 28 also requires school districts to provide instruction in child
  3 29 sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention
  3 30 as part of its human growth and development curriculum in
  3 31 kindergarten through grade 12.
  3 32    Currently, the director of the department of education has a
  3 33 duty to develop and make available to school districts examples
  3 34 of age=appropriate and research=based materials.  The bill
  3 35 specifies that the materials and resources shall also cover
  4  1 child sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness and prevention.
  4  2    The director is also directed to seek and use funds available
  4  3 to the department under the federal Elementary and Secondary
  4  4 Education Act of 1965, as amended by the federal Every
  4  5 Student Succeeds Act, Pub. L. No. 114=95, to provide to school
  4  6 districts with approved applications for allocations from such
  4  7 funds training for school district personnel regarding child
  4  8 sexual abuse and sexual assault awareness.
  4  9    The bill may include a state mandate as defined in Code
  4 10 section 25B.3.  The bill requires that the state cost of
  4 11 any state mandate included in the bill be paid by a school
  4 12 district from state school foundation aid received by the
  4 13 school district under Code section 257.16.  The specification
  4 14 is deemed to constitute state compliance with any state mandate
  4 15 funding=related requirements of Code section 25B.2.  The
  4 16 inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the
  4 17 requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state
  4 18 mandates included in the bill.
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