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IA SF515

Bill

Status

Engrossed

4/9/2025

Primary Sponsor

Judiciary

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Origin

Senate

91st General Assembly

AI Summary

  • 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

  • Requires courts to consider a child's educational setting when parents disagree, both for temporary custody orders and final joint legal custody awards

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary5/15/2025

Full Bill Text

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