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IA SF515
Bill
AI Summary
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Defines "educational setting" as the type of educational environment (not a specific school location), including public schools, accredited nonpublic schools, homeschool options like competent private instruction or independent private instruction, and other methods meeting compulsory education requirements
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Requires courts to consider a child's educational setting when parents disagree, both for temporary custody orders and final joint legal custody awards
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Establishes a rebuttable presumption that keeping a child in their educational setting from the immediately preceding school year is in the child's best interest, which can only be overcome by a preponderance of the evidence
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Mandates all custody orders specify each parent's rights and responsibilities regarding the child's educational setting, including physical access during school, access to health/education/welfare records, decision-making authority, and authority to remove the child from school premises
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Prohibits a parent from accessing the other parent's home during homeschool instruction and requires parents with legal custody to provide a copy of the custody order to the educational setting and school district
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to consideration of the educational setting of a minor child in a child custody proceeding. (Formerly SF 182.)
Last Action
Rereferred to Judiciary. H.J. 1221.
5/15/2025