S-5165

   Amend Senate File 2219, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
   1.  By striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting: 
   <Section 1.  Section 256E.7, subsection 2, Code 2026, is amended by adding the following new paragraph:
   NEW PARAGRAPH.  0w.  Be subject to and comply with the requirements of section 299.1, subsection 5, relating to absences from school because of involvement in a school-sponsored activity, program, competition, or project in the same manner as a school district.
   Sec. 2.  Section 299.1, Code 2026, is amended by adding the following new subsection:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  5.  The board of directors of each public school district and the governing body of each accredited nonpublic school shall adopt a policy that requires the school district or the accredited nonpublic school to grant a student an exempt absence when the student is absent from school because of the student’s involvement in a school-sponsored activity, program, competition, or project. The policy shall also require the school district or accredited nonpublic school to allow a student who is absent from school because of the student’s involvement in a school-sponsored activity, program, competition, or project to make up any classwork the student was not able to complete as a result of the absence.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 4 and 5 and inserting <related to exempting student absences for school-sponsored activities, programs, competitions, and projects.>