HF 898 (LSB 1394HV (1) 91)

HOUSE FILE 898

BY  COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 2)

A BILL FOR

An Act modifying school attendance requirements related to children who are undergoing military entrance processing or who are engaged in military service.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 299.2, Code 2025, is amended by adding the following new subsections:
   NEW SUBSECTION.  7.  Who is a military applicant undergoing military entrance processing.
   NEW SUBSECTION.  8.  Who is engaged in military service.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill modifies school attendance requirements related to children who are undergoing military entrance processing or who are engaged in military service.
   Current law requires the parent, guardian, or legal or actual custodian of a child who is of compulsory attendance age to cause the child to attend public school or an accredited nonpublic school, or place the child under competent private instruction or independent private instruction, during a school year. Under current law, this requirement does not apply to any child who has completed the requirements for graduation in an accredited school or has obtained a high school equivalency diploma, who is excused for sufficient reason by any court of record or judge, who is attending religious services or receiving religious instructions, who is attending a private college preparatory school, who has been excused under Code section 299.22 (when deaf or hard-of-hearing and blind children excused), or who is exempted under Code section 299.24 (religious groups exempted from school standards). The bill adds additional exemptions for children who are undergoing military entrance processing or who are engaged in military service.