Bill Text: IA SF2195 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: A bill for an act requiring that human growth and development instruction by school boards include age-appropriate information regarding dating violence and prevention. (Formerly SF 2077.)
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-02-25 - Subcommittee, Salmon, Gassman, and Mascher. H.J. 345. [SF2195 Detail]
Download: Iowa-2015-SF2195-Introduced.html
Senate File 2195 - Introduced SENATE FILE BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO SF 2077) A BILL FOR 1 An Act requiring that human growth and development instruction 2 by school boards include age=appropriate information 3 regarding dating violence and prevention. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: TLSB 5679SV (1) 86 kh/rj PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 279.50, subsection 2, Code 2016, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 2. Each school board shall provide age=appropriate and 1 4 research=based instruction in human growth and development 1 5 including instruction regarding human sexuality,; self=esteem,; 1 6 stress management,; interpersonal relationships,; dating 1 7 violence; affirmative, conscious, and voluntary consent 1 8 to engage in sexual activity; domestic abuse,; HPV and the 1 9 availability of a vaccine to prevent HPV,; and acquired immune 1 10 deficiency syndrome, as required in section 256.11, in grades 1 11 one through twelve. 1 12 EXPLANATION 1 13 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 1 14 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly. 1 15 This bill provides that the age=appropriate and 1 16 research=based instruction in human growth and development, 1 17 which each school board must provide, must include instruction 1 18 regarding dating violence and affirmative, conscious, and 1 19 voluntary consent to engage in sexual activity. LSB 5679SV (1) 86 kh/rj