Bill Text: IA HSB84 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act prohibiting school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools from providing any program, curriculum, test, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender identity or sexual orientation to students in grades seven through twelve.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Subcommittee: Wheeler, Levin and Stone. H.J. 125. [HSB84 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2025-HSB84-Introduced.html
House
Study
Bill
84
-
Introduced
HOUSE
FILE
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BY
(PROPOSED
COMMITTEE
ON
EDUCATION
BILL
BY
CHAIRPERSON
WHEELER)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
prohibiting
school
districts,
charter
schools,
and
1
innovation
zone
schools
from
providing
any
program,
2
curriculum,
test,
survey,
questionnaire,
promotion,
3
or
instruction
relating
to
gender
identity
or
sexual
4
orientation
to
students
in
grades
seven
through
twelve.
5
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
256.11,
subsection
4,
Code
2025,
is
1
amended
to
read
as
follows:
2
4.
The
following
shall
be
taught
in
grades
seven
and
3
eight:
English-language
arts;
social
studies,
including
4
instruction
related
to
civics;
mathematics;
science;
5
subject
to
section
279.80,
health;
subject
to
section
6
279.80,
age-appropriate
and
research-based
human
growth
and
7
development;
career
exploration
and
development;
physical
8
education;
music;
and
visual
art.
Computer
science
instruction
9
incorporating
the
standards
established
under
section
256.7,
10
subsection
26
,
paragraph
“a”
,
subparagraph
(4),
shall
be
11
offered
in
at
least
one
grade
level
commencing
with
the
12
school
year
beginning
July
1,
2023.
Career
exploration
13
and
development
shall
be
designed
so
that
students
are
14
appropriately
prepared
to
create
an
individual
career
15
and
academic
plan
pursuant
to
section
279.61
,
incorporate
16
foundational
career
and
technical
education
concepts
aligned
17
with
the
six
career
and
technical
education
service
areas
as
18
defined
in
subsection
5
,
paragraph
“h”
,
incorporate
relevant
19
twenty-first
century
skills
to
facilitate
career
readiness,
20
and
introduce
students
to
career
opportunities
within
the
21
local
community
and
across
this
state.
The
health
curriculum
22
shall
include
age-appropriate
and
research-based
information
23
regarding
the
characteristics
of
sexually
transmitted
diseases.
24
The
state
board
as
part
of
accreditation
standards
shall
adopt
25
curriculum
definitions
for
implementing
the
program
in
grades
26
seven
and
eight.
However,
this
subsection
shall
not
apply
to
27
the
teaching
of
career
exploration
and
development
in
nonpublic
28
schools.
29
Sec.
2.
Section
256.11,
subsection
5,
paragraph
j,
30
subparagraph
(1),
Code
2025,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
31
(1)
One
unit
of
health
education
which
may
include
personal
32
health;
food
and
nutrition;
environmental
health;
safety
33
and
survival
skills;
consumer
health;
family
life;
subject
34
to
section
279.80,
age-appropriate
and
research-based
human
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growth
and
development;
substance
use
disorder
and
nonuse;
1
emotional
and
social
health;
health
resources;
cardiopulmonary
2
resuscitation;
and
prevention
and
control
of
disease,
including
3
age-appropriate
and
research-based
information
regarding
4
sexually
transmitted
diseases.
5
Sec.
3.
Section
256E.7,
subsection
2,
paragraph
p,
Code
6
2025,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
7
p.
Be
subject
to
and
comply
with
the
requirements
of
section
8
279.80
relating
to
sexual
orientation
and
gender
identity
9
instruction
in
kindergarten
through
grade
six
twelve
in
the
10
same
manner
as
a
school
district.
11
Sec.
4.
Section
256F.4,
subsection
2,
paragraph
n,
Code
12
2025,
is
amended
to
read
as
follows:
13
n.
Be
subject
to
and
comply
with
the
requirements
of
section
14
279.80
relating
to
sexual
orientation
and
gender
identity
15
instruction
in
kindergarten
through
grade
six
twelve
in
the
16
same
manner
as
a
school
district.
17
Sec.
5.
Section
279.50,
subsection
3,
Code
2025,
is
amended
18
to
read
as
follows:
19
3.
Each
Subject
to
section
279.80,
each
school
board
shall
20
provide
age-appropriate
and
research-based
instruction
in
21
human
growth
and
development
including
instruction
regarding
22
human
sexuality,
self-esteem,
stress
management,
interpersonal
23
relationships,
domestic
abuse,
and
the
prevention
and
control
24
of
disease,
including
sexually
transmitted
diseases
as
required
25
in
section
256.11
,
in
grades
seven
through
twelve.
26
Sec.
6.
Section
279.80,
subsection
2,
Code
2025,
is
amended
27
to
read
as
follows:
28
2.
A
school
district
shall
not
provide
any
program,
29
curriculum,
test,
survey,
questionnaire,
promotion,
or
30
instruction
relating
to
gender
identity
or
sexual
orientation
31
to
students
in
kindergarten
through
grade
six
twelve
.
32
EXPLANATION
33
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
34
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
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This
bill
prohibits
school
districts,
charter
schools,
and
1
innovation
zone
schools
from
providing
any
program,
curriculum,
2
test,
survey,
questionnaire,
promotion,
or
instruction
relating
3
to
gender
identity
or
sexual
orientation
to
students
in
grades
4
7
through
12,
extending
the
current
prohibition
that
applies
to
5
such
students
in
kindergarten
through
grade
6.
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