109 HR 2108 IH: Safeguarding Schoolchildren of Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005 U.S. House of Representatives 2005-05-04 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

I 109th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 2108 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 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.

1.

Short title

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

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:

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.