Bill Text: IA SF100 | 2025-2026 | 91st General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to mental health resources for students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - Subcommittee: Evans, Staed, and Taylor. S.J. 152. [SF100 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2025-SF100-Introduced.html
Senate File 100 - Introduced SENATE FILE 100 BY STAED , WINCKLER , BLAKE , KNOX , TOWNSEND , DONAHUE , QUIRMBACH , PETERSEN , DOTZLER , and WEINER A BILL FOR An Act relating to mental health resources for students 1 enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, 2 charter schools, and innovation zone schools. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 2231XS (3) 91 jda/jh
S.F. 100 Section 1. Section 256E.7, subsection 2, Code 2025, is 1 amended by adding the following new paragraph: 2 NEW PARAGRAPH . 0t. Be subject to and comply with the 3 requirements of section 280.36 relating to the publication of 4 mental health resources and partnering with students to find 5 additional ways to increase student awareness of mental health 6 resources and information related to mental health. 7 Sec. 2. Section 256F.4, Code 2025, is amended by adding the 8 following new paragraph: 9 NEW PARAGRAPH . r. Be subject to and comply with the 10 requirements of section 280.36 relating to the publication of 11 mental health resources and partnering with students to find 12 additional ways to increase student awareness of mental health 13 resources and information related to mental health. 14 Sec. 3. NEW SECTION . 280.36 Mental health resources. 15 The board of directors of each school district and the 16 authorities in charge of each accredited nonpublic school shall 17 do all of the following: 18 1. Publish on the school district’s or accredited nonpublic 19 school’s internet site the mental health resources created by 20 your life Iowa, or a link to where such mental health resources 21 may be accessed on your life Iowa’s internet site. 22 2. Partner with students enrolled in the school district or 23 accredited nonpublic school in order to find additional ways 24 to increase student awareness of mental health resources and 25 information related to mental health. 26 EXPLANATION 27 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 28 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 29 This bill relates to mental health resources for students 30 enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, 31 charter schools, and innovation zone schools. The bill 32 requires schools to publish on the school’s internet site the 33 mental health resources created by your life Iowa, or a link to 34 where such mental health resources may be accessed on your life 35 -1- LSB 2231XS (3) 91 jda/jh 1/ 2
S.F. 100 Iowa’s internet site, and to partner with students enrolled in 1 the school in order to find additional ways to increase student 2 awareness of mental health resources and information related 3 to mental health. 4 -2- LSB 2231XS (3) 91 jda/jh 2/ 2
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