republic-os/legislation/us/states/ia/2023-2024/sf-496.md

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Bill	A bill for an act relating to children and students, including establishing a parent’s or guardian’s right to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, authorizing the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district to enroll the student in another attendance center within the same school district in certain specified circumstances, prohibiting instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six, and modifying provisions related to student health screenings, school district library programs, the educational program provided to students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools, other duties of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools, competent private instruction, and special education, and including effective date provisions.	A bill for an act relating to children and students, including establishing a parent’s or guardian’s right to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, authorizing the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district to enroll the student in another attendance center within the same school district in certain specified circumstances, prohibiting instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six, and modifying provisions related to student health screenings, school district library programs, the educational program provided to students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools, other duties of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools, competent private instruction, and special education, and including effective date provisions.	us/states/ia	Iowa General Assembly	2023-2024	SF 496	Iowa SF 496 (2023-2024)	bill	boards commissions and councils charter schools children curricula education education board education department gender health parental rights private education rights school districts school libraries schools special education students	enacted		15	39	8	2023-03-02	2023-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/54a2a46d-c5b8-49de-bb38-e5ae33d98131	https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=SF 496&ga=90	5dfeca1b894c444291b3f4bf2ce69b5f453ac9fd1a0bd69f9ec1a7f94ee20e7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ia

Iowa SF 496 (2023-2024) — A bill for an act relating to children and students, including establishing a parent’s or guardian’s right to make decisions affecting the parent’s or guardian’s child, authorizing the parent or guardian of a student enrolled in a school district to enroll the student in another attendance center within the same school district in certain specified circumstances, prohibiting instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation in school districts, charter schools, and innovation zone schools in kindergarten through grade six, and modifying provisions related to student health screenings, school district library programs, the educational program provided to students enrolled in school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, and charter schools, other duties of school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, the department of education, the board of educational examiners, and the governing boards of charter schools and innovation zone schools, competent private instruction, and special education, and including effective date provisions.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Amendment H-1173 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment H-1183 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment H-1271 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment S-3069 (committee substitute) — source
6. Amendment S-3070 (committee substitute) — source
7. Amendment S-3097 (committee substitute) — source
8. Amendment S-3099 (committee substitute) — source
9. Amendment S-3104 (committee substitute) — source
10. Amendment S-3117 (committee substitute) — source
11. Amendment S-3160 (committee substitute) — source
12. Reprinted (committee substitute) — source
13. Reprinted Marked Up (committee substitute) — source
14. Signed Enrolled Bill (PDF) (committee substitute) — source
15. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Shall amendment S-3104 to amendment S-3097 be adopted? — 33–17 (pass) · upper
• Shall the motion to concur be adopted? — 34–16 (pass) · upper
• Shall amendment S-3160 to House amendment S-3117 be adopted? — 34–15 (pass) · upper
• Shall the bill pass? — 34–16 (pass) · upper
• Shall the bill pass? — 55–42 (pass) · lower
• Shall the bill pass? — 57–38 (pass) · lower
• Shall the bill pass? — 34–16 (pass) · upper
• Shall amendment S-3070 to amendment S-3069 be adopted? — 16–34 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION — primary (organization)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-03-02 Introduced, placed on calendar. introduction
• 2023-03-02 Committee report, approving bill. committee-passage
• 2023-03-13 Amendments S-3069 and S-3070 filed.
• 2023-03-20 Fiscal note.
• 2023-03-22 Point of order raised, ruled not well taken.
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3070 lost. amendment-failure
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3069 lost. amendment-failure
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3097 filed. amendment-introduction
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3104 to S-3097 filed, adopted.
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3099 to S-3097 filed, adopted.
• 2023-03-22 Amendment S-3097 adopted, as amended. amendment-passage
• 2023-03-22 Passed Senate, yeas 34, nays 16. passage
• 2023-03-22 Immediate message.
• 2023-03-23 Message from Senate.
• 2023-03-23 Read first time, referred to Education. reading-1
• 2023-03-27 Subcommittee: Wheeler, Boden, Cahill, Holt and Matson.
• 2023-03-28 Subcommittee Meeting: 03/29/2023 12:30PM RM 19.
• 2023-03-29 Subcommittee recommends passage. Vote Total: 3-2. committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-03-30 Committee report, recommending amendment and passage. committee-passage
• 2023-03-30 Placed on calendar.
• 2023-03-30 Committee amendment H-1173 filed. amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-04 Amendment H-1183 to amendment H-1173 filed, adopted. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage
• 2023-04-04 Amendment H-1173 adopted, as amended. amendment-passage
• 2023-04-04 Passed House, yeas 55, nays 42. passage
• 2023-04-04 Immediate message.
• 2023-04-05 Message from House, with amendment S-3117.
• 2023-04-19 Amendment S-3160 to S-3117 filed, adopted.
• 2023-04-19 Senate concurred with S-3117, as amended.
• 2023-04-19 Passed Senate, yeas 34, nays 16. passage
• 2023-04-19 Immediate message.
• 2023-04-20 Message from Senate.
• 2023-04-20 Senate amendment H-1271 filed. amendment-introduction
• 2023-04-20 House concurred in amendment H-1271 to amendment S-3117.
• 2023-04-20 Passed House, yeas 57, nays 38. passage
• 2023-05-02 Explanation of vote.
• 2023-04-20 Immediate message.
• 2023-04-24 Message from House.
• 2023-05-11 Reported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
• 2023-05-26 Signed by Governor. executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/54a2a46d-c5b8-49de-bb38-e5ae33d98131. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Iowa legislature records).