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IA SSB3109

SB

Status

Introduced

2/3/2026

Primary Sponsor

Education

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Origin

Senate

91st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Requires school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to provide "success-sequence education" in grades 7-12.

  • Defines success-sequence education as instruction on evidence-based milestones to accomplish before having children: obtaining at least a high school diploma, securing full-time employment, and getting married.

  • Mandates teaching that marriage generally provides financial, emotional, and health benefits to married individuals and their children.

  • Requires instruction on research indicating children with divorced parents have increased likelihood of poverty, incarceration, and negative physical and mental health outcomes.

  • Incorporates success-sequence education into social studies curriculum for grades 7-8 and personal finance literacy curriculum for grades 9-12, with costs paid from existing state school foundation aid.

Legislative Description

A bill for an act requiring school districts, accredited nonpublic schools, charter schools, and innovation zone schools to provide success-sequence education in grades seven through twelve.

Last Action

Subcommittee recommends passage.

2/11/2026

Committee Referrals

Education2/3/2026

Full Bill Text

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