I 
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. RAN-
GEL, 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 com-
ponent parent who is deployed overseas. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding School-
children of Deployed Soldiers Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. RELIEF FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN CHANGING RESI-
DENCE BASED ON MILITARY SERVICE OF RE-
SERVIST 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 MILI-
TARY 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 mili-
tary 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 pur-
poses 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 de-
ployment 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 edu-
cational 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 com-
pliance 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 mili-
tary service.’’. 
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