Iowa Education Legislative Watch
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HSB 679

Requires noncontact periods for school athletics and activities

Starting in the 2026-2027 school year, coaches, directors, and teachers may not contact students about interscholastic athletic contests during set noncontact periods, and high school students are barred from contact and facility use during them. Organizations that run nonschool-sponsored contests in Iowa must also observe these periods.

Official title

A bill for an act relating to noncontact periods for students, coaches, directors, and teachers in extracurricular interscholastic athletic contests and competitions.(See HF 2508.)

Introduced1 of 5

Where it stands

  1. Introduced
  2. Committee
  3. House
  4. Senate
  5. Governor

Last action, Feb 16: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2508.

On these agendas

  • Education SubcommitteeFeb 12

    ** HSB 679 will be addressed in the 02/11/2026 Education Committee meeting (subcommittee o

  • Education CommitteeFeb 11

    f bills electronically assigned. Consideration of bills, at discretion of chair HSB 679 Wheeler (Ch), Boden, Gosa - subcommittee of the whole HF 2122 Hayes (Ch), Boden

History

  • Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2508.House · Feb 16
  • Committee vote: Yeas, 20. Nays, 3. H.J. 281.House · Feb 11
  • Committee report, recommending passage. H.J. 281.House · Feb 11
  • Subcommittee Meeting: 02/12/2026 8:30AM RM 19 (Cancelled).House · Feb 10
  • Subcommittee: Wheeler, Gosa and Stone. H.J. 216.House · Feb 5
  • Introduced, referred to Education. H.J. 214.House · Feb 5
  • By COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONHouse · Feb 5