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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. 

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 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding School5 children of Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005’’. 
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1 SEC. 2. RELIEF FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN CHANGING RESI2 DENCE BASED ON MILITARY SERVICE OF RE3 SERVIST PARENT. 

4 (a) UNINTERRUPTED ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL.— 

5 Title VII of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 

6 U.S.C. App. 591 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end 

7 the following new section: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 707. CONTINUITY OF ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL OF 

9 CHILDREN OF CERTAIN PARENTS IN MILI10 TARY SERVICE. 

11 ‘‘(a) ATTENDANCE FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN.—For the 

12 duration of the military service on which a child’s change 

13 of residence is based and at the request of a child’s parent, 

14 a State educational agency or local educational agency 

15 shall, for purposes of enrollment (including tuition, fees, 

16 and costs) in elementary school or secondary school, treat 

17 a child who changes residence based on the qualifying mili18 tary service of one or both of the child’s parents as if the 

19 child has the residence the child had before the change 

20 of residence, and the child shall be deemed, for all other 

21 purposes relating to enrollment, to have the residence the 

22 child had before the change of residence. 

23 ‘‘(b) QUALIFYING MILITARY SERVICE.—For pur24 poses of this section, qualifying military service is military 

25 service to which a member of a reserve component of the 
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1 uniformed services is ordered that includes a period of de2 ployment to a location outside the United States. 

3 ‘‘(c) NO PROVISION OF TRANSPORTATION.—No 

4 State educational agency or local educational agency shall 

5 be responsible for the transportation of a child described 

6 in subsection (a) to or from school by reason of subsection 

7 (a). 

8 ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms 

9 ‘child’, ‘parent’, ‘State educational agency’, ‘local edu10 cational agency’, ‘elementary school’, and ‘secondary 

11 school’ have the meanings given those terms in section 

12 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 

13 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).’’. 

14 (b) TRANSITIONAL PROVISION.—Not later than 30 

15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a State 

16 educational agency or local educational agency that serves 

17 the area where a child is deemed to reside pursuant to 

18 section 707(a) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as 

19 added by subsection (a), shall facilitate the re-enrollment 

20 of the child if such re-enrollment is necessary to be in com21 pliance with such section. 

22 (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 

23 in section 1(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act is 

24 amended by adding at the end the following new item: 
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‘‘707. Continuity of attendance at school of children with certain parents in military service.’’. 

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