Senate adopts school cardiac emergency measure; House amendment excludes private schools and extends dyslexia board repeal

The Senate on the floor agreed to adopt a House amendment to Senate File 24 74 and then passed the bill by a unanimous recorded vote.

Senator Green of Boone, opening discussion on the bill, said, "Senate file 24 74 is a bill that we passed out of here a couple weeks ago in regards to school cardiac emergency response." He described the core requirement: "The bill requires the Department of Education, to gather data on, plans and AEDs across all school buildings." The senator urged colleagues to support concurrence with the House amendment.

The House amendment, identified on the floor as Senate Amendment 52 40, was described by Senator Green as striking private schools from the bill’s data-collection process and extending the repeal date for the Iowa Dyslexia Board from 2027 to 2032. After a call for final remarks and seeing no senators seek the floor, Senator Green moved to concur and asked for "a yes vote." The amendment was adopted and reported as adopted by the presiding officer.

Following adoption of the amendment, Senator Green moved that Senate File 24 74 be read for the final time and placed on its passage. The secretary read the amended bill title and the chamber agreed that the reading thus far served as the last reading. The presiding officer then put the question on passage and the secretary opened and then closed the voting system. The secretary announced, "Those voting aye 42; those voting nay 0." The bill "having received a constitutional majority is declared to have passed the senate and the title was agreed to."

After passage, a senator asked unanimous consent to immediately message Senate File 24 74; the presiding officer heard no objection and ordered it.

What changed: the enacted version as handled on the floor will require the Department of Education to collect specified school cardiac-emergency information from public school buildings while the adopted amendment excludes private schools from that data collection. The amendment also pushes the statutory repeal date for the Iowa Dyslexia Board from 2027 to 2032.

Next steps: the Senate ordered the bill messaged following passage. The transcript does not record further steps (such as enrollment or executive action) on the floor record.

Sources and attribution: direct quotes and floor actions are taken from Senate floor proceedings recorded in the session transcript. Attributions in this article are limited to speakers explicitly identified on the record.