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IA SF2351

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/26/2026

Primary Sponsor

Education

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Origin

Senate

91st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Prohibits students who are chronically absent, participating in a school engagement meeting, or subject to an absenteeism prevention plan under Iowa Code section 299.12 from using open enrollment to transfer to another school district

  • Allows chronically absent students to transfer only after they are no longer chronically absent, no longer in a school engagement meeting, and no longer party to an absenteeism prevention plan

  • Permits receiving districts to approve transfer requests from chronically absent students at their discretion, even while the student remains subject to attendance interventions

  • Maintains existing provisions that suspended or expelled students cannot transfer until reinstated in their sending district

  • Applies to all open enrollment applications and notifications submitted on or after the bill's effective date

Legislative Description

A bill for an act relating to the open enrollment of pupils who are truant or chronically absent, and including applicability provisions.(Formerly SF 2116.)

Last Action

Read first time, referred to Education. H.J. 440.

2/26/2026

Committee Referrals

Education2/26/2026

Full Bill Text

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