All Roll Calls
Yes: 153 • No: 120
IowaSF 17591st General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
A bill for an act incorporating provisions related to pregnancy and fetal development into the human growth and development and health curricula provided by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to students enrolled in grades five through twelve. (Formerly SSB 1028.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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Career planning in grades 7–8
Beginning July 1, 2025, grades 7–8 must teach career exploration and development. The classes help students build an individual career and academic plan, learn basic career and technical education concepts, and practice key twenty-first-century skills. They also introduce local and statewide career options. This rule does not apply to nonpublic schools.
More disease education in health class
Beginning July 1, 2025, elementary health lessons include the traits of communicable diseases. Grades 7–8 must teach age-appropriate, research-based information about sexually transmitted diseases under state standards. The required high school health unit must cover disease prevention and control, including age-appropriate, research-based STD information. The unit may also include personal health, nutrition, environmental health, safety, consumer health, family life, and research-based human growth and development.
Prenatal lessons in grades 5–12
Beginning July 1, 2025, schools must teach age-appropriate human growth and development in grades 1–12. In grades 5–12, lessons include prenatal development. Classes must show a high-definition ultrasound video and a quality animation or image that tracks development from fertilization and key stages. Schools cannot use materials from entities that perform or promote abortions, or that contract, affiliate, or routinely refer to them.
Uniform health curriculum rules statewide
Beginning July 1, 2025, the State Board of Education sets curriculum definitions and adopts rules to run and explain human growth and development instruction. The law defines research-based materials as complete, unbiased, medically accurate, supported by accepted science, peer-reviewed where appropriate, and free of racial or gender bias. Charter schools must follow the same human growth (grades 5–8) and high school health (grades 9–12) standards as other public schools. State law updates cross-references so these standards apply to covered charter and innovation zone programs.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
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Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 4/28/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 33 • No: 16
legislature vote • 4/17/2025
Amendment H-1253
Yes: 29 • No: 60
House vote • 4/17/2025
Passed House
Yes: 60 • No: 31
Senate vote • 2/18/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 31 • No: 13
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
6/6/2025GovernorReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/19/2025SenateMessage from Senate.
4/29/2025SenateImmediate message.
4/28/2025legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 33, nays 16.
4/28/2025SenateSenate concurred with S-3111.
4/28/2025SenateExplanation of vote.
4/24/2025legislatureMessage from House, with amendment S-3111.
4/21/2025HouseImmediate message.
4/17/2025legislaturePassed House, yeas 60, nays 31.
4/17/2025HouseAmendment H-1253, yeas 29, nays 60, filed, lost.
4/17/2025legislatureAmendment H-1237 adopted.
4/17/2025legislatureAmendment H-1252 to amendment H-1237, yeas 29, nays 62, filed, lost.
4/17/2025legislatureSubstituted for HF 391.
4/17/2025legislatureAmendment H-1237 filed.
4/16/2025legislaturePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
4/3/2025legislatureRead first time, passed on file.
2/19/2025legislatureMessage from Senate.
2/19/2025SenateImmediate message.
2/18/2025legislatureExplanation of vote.
2/18/2025legislaturePassed Senate, yeas 31, nays 13.
2/18/2025SenateAmendment S-3007 filed, lost.
2/18/2025legislatureAmendment S-3005 filed, adopted.
2/18/2025legislatureCommittee report, approving bill.
2/3/2025legislatureIntroduced, placed on calendar.
2/3/2025legislature
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