HSB608: Your Life Iowa Hotline

Requires that public schools issuing physical or electronic identification cards to students in grades 6 through 12 must include the crisis hotline telephone and text numbers, as well as the internet address for the Your Life Iowa program or its successor. For electronic IDs, this information must be provided via a link. The bill also allows, but does not require, schools to include this information on ID cards for students in grade 5. The requirements apply to student ID cards issued after the effective date, with an exception for schools using up existing unused physical ID card supplies.

Key Points & Impacts

• Expands mandatory inclusion of suicide prevention information on student IDs from grades 7–12 to grades 6–12.

• Requires both physical and electronic student identification cards to display or provide a link to the Your Life Iowa program internet address.

• Specifies that the suicide prevention information must be on the physical card and, for electronic cards, accessible via a link.

• Allows (but does not require) inclusion of this information on IDs for students in grade 5.

• Changes language from 'grades seven through twelve' to 'grades six through twelve' and from 'grades five and six' to 'grade five.'

• Clarifies that requirements apply only to new ID cards issued after the bill's effective date, allowing use of pre-existing physical ID card supplies.

• Explicitly includes the internet address as a required element along with the crisis hotline telephone and text numbers.

• Distinguishes between physical and electronic ID cards regarding how information must be provided.