[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2108 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2108

To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prevent the disruption 
of the education of children who change residence based on the military 
    service of a reserve component parent who is deployed overseas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 4, 2005

   Ms. Slaughter (for herself, Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Ms. 
 Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Scott 
   of Georgia, Mr. Cardoza, Mr. Crowley, Ms. Solis, Mr. Rangel, Mr. 
Wexler, Mr. Conyers, and Mrs. McCarthy) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to prevent the disruption 
of the education of children who change residence based on the military 
    service of a reserve component parent who is deployed overseas.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Safeguarding Schoolchildren of 
Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. RELIEF FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN CHANGING RESIDENCE BASED ON MILITARY 
              SERVICE OF RESERVIST PARENT.

    (a) Uninterrupted Attendance at School.--Title VII of the 
Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. App. 591 et seq.) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new section:

``SEC. 707. CONTINUITY OF ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL OF CHILDREN OF CERTAIN 
              PARENTS IN MILITARY SERVICE.

    ``(a) Attendance for Schoolchildren.--For the duration of the 
military service on which a child's change of residence is based and at 
the request of a child's parent, a State educational agency or local 
educational agency shall, for purposes of enrollment (including 
tuition, fees, and costs) in elementary school or secondary school, 
treat a child who changes residence based on the qualifying military 
service of one or both of the child's parents as if the child has the 
residence the child had before the change of residence, and the child 
shall be deemed, for all other purposes relating to enrollment, to have 
the residence the child had before the change of residence.
    ``(b) Qualifying Military Service.--For purposes of this section, 
qualifying military service is military service to which a member of a 
reserve component of the uniformed services is ordered that includes a 
period of deployment to a location outside the United States.
    ``(c) No Provision of Transportation.--No State educational agency 
or local educational agency shall be responsible for the transportation 
of a child described in subsection (a) to or from school by reason of 
subsection (a).
    ``(d) Definitions.--In this section, the terms `child', `parent', 
`State educational agency', `local educational agency', `elementary 
school', and `secondary school' have the meanings given those terms in 
section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 7801).''.
    (b) Transitional Provision.--Not later than 30 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, a State educational agency or local 
educational agency that serves the area where a child is deemed to 
reside pursuant to section 707(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief 
Act, as added by subsection (a), shall facilitate the re-enrollment of 
the child if such re-enrollment is necessary to be in compliance with 
such section.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 1(b) of 
the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is amended by adding at the end the 
following new item:

``707. Continuity of attendance at school of children with certain 
                            parents in military service.''.
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