House File 898 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 898 BY COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 2) A BILL FOR An Act modifying school attendance requirements related to 1 children who are undergoing military entrance processing or 2 who are engaged in military service. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 1394HV (1) 91 jda/jh

H.F. 898 Section 1. Section 299.2, Code 2025, is amended by adding 1 the following new subsections: 2 NEW SUBSECTION . 7. Who is a military applicant undergoing 3 military entrance processing. 4 NEW SUBSECTION . 8. Who is engaged in military service. 5 EXPLANATION 6 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 7 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 8 This bill modifies school attendance requirements related to 9 children who are undergoing military entrance processing or who 10 are engaged in military service. 11 Current law requires the parent, guardian, or legal or 12 actual custodian of a child who is of compulsory attendance age 13 to cause the child to attend public school or an accredited 14 nonpublic school, or place the child under competent private 15 instruction or independent private instruction, during a school 16 year. Under current law, this requirement does not apply to 17 any child who has completed the requirements for graduation in 18 an accredited school or has obtained a high school equivalency 19 diploma, who is excused for sufficient reason by any court 20 of record or judge, who is attending religious services or 21 receiving religious instructions, who is attending a private 22 college preparatory school, who has been excused under 23 Code section 299.22 (when deaf or hard-of-hearing and blind 24 children excused), or who is exempted under Code section 299.24 25 (religious groups exempted from school standards). The bill 26 adds additional exemptions for children who are undergoing 27 military entrance processing or who are engaged in military 28 service. 29 -1- LSB 1394HV (1) 91 jda/jh 1/ 1