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House transmits multiple education and administrative bills to Iowa Senate
Summary
The Iowa Senate received a message from the House listing several bills the House passed March 18, 2025, many addressing education policy and administration. The message was read into the Senate record; no Senate action was recorded during the session.
The senate secretary read a message from the Iowa House on March 18, 2025, announcing that the House had passed multiple bills and transmitted them to the Senate.
The message, read into the record, listed a series of House files described in the transcript as addressing statewide assessments, higher-education accreditation, general education programs for undergraduates, and several measures the message identified as relating to diversity, equity and inclusion, school safety, and teacher salary and preparation. The secretary said, “the house has, on 03/18/2025, passed the following bills,” and then recited the bills by number and brief descriptions.
Nut graf: The bills transmitted cover several areas of education policy and administrative authority. The Senate record in this session contains the House message but shows no committee referrals or floor action on those bills during the same sitting.
Details read into the record included (as read): House File 190 — described as relinquishing administrative statewide summative assessment of students online by school districts, accredited nonpublic schools and charter schools; House File 269 — described as bringing certain requirements to students, faculty and institutions relating to diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory; House File 295 — described as relating to accreditation of postsecondary educational institutions and prohibiting certain adverse actions by accrediting agencies; House File 401 — described as providing general education programs for undergraduate students at regional institutions; House File 437 — described as establishing the Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa; House File 440 — described in the transcript as relating to tuition and degree programs and enrollment at regional institutions; House File 522 — described in the transcript as relating to a therapeutic classroom incentive program and authorizing expenditures for certain nutritional items; House File 72 — described in the transcript as relating to electronic devices in schools and school safety plans; House File 784 — described in the transcript as modifying mathematics instruction provisions, practitioner preparation programs and duties of the director of the Department of Education; House File 777 — described in the transcript as modifying teacher salary calculation and teacher preparation requirements; House File 856 — described in the transcript as restricting certain activities by public entities and private educational institutions relating to diversity, equity and inclusion; and House File 865 — described in the transcript as relating to harassment and bullying of students enrolled in school districts. The transcript also referenced Senate File 603 regarding county supervisor plans and vacancies.
Where the recording of titles or descriptions was unclear or garbled in the transcript, the article reports the wording as it was read and notes that the message in the Senate record was marked by the secretary as incomplete in one instance.
Ending: The Senate session that day recorded the House message in the journal; no additional Senate action on the listed bills was recorded in the provided transcript segment.
