All Roll Calls
Yes: 140 • No: 0
IowaSF 27791st General Assembly (2025–2026)Senate
A bill for an act modifying provisions related to compulsory education, truancy, and chronic absenteeism. (Formerly SSB 1077.) Effective date: 07/01/2025.
Sponsored By: COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Signed by Governor
education
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More attendance exceptions for Iowa students
Beginning July 1, 2025, Iowa excuses absences for military entrance processing, military service, and travel to funerals or weddings; public school district policies must explain attendance exceptions and reasonably consider travel time. At 15% or more of a grading period’s days or hours missed, school officials must check for harm to academic progress and, if found, hold a school engagement meeting to identify attendance barriers and ways to help. Schools no longer need certified mail for chronic-absence notices to parents, guardians, custodians, or emancipated students: ordinary mail, email, electronic messages, or in-person delivery are allowed. County attorneys still receive notice by ordinary mail or email; schools must keep a copy until the student graduates, turns 21, or leaves enrollment, whichever comes first. The Iowa Department of Education must consult the Iowa County Attorneys Association and develop and share an attendance-enforcement model policy with county attorneys, school districts, and accredited nonpublic schools; county attorneys may use it but need not follow it.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 4/17/2025
Passed House
Yes: 93 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/10/2025
Passed Senate
Yes: 47 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Signed by Governor.
5/6/2025SenateReported correctly enrolled, signed by President and Speaker, and sent to Governor.
5/6/2025SenateExplanation of vote.
4/24/2025HouseMessage from House.
4/21/2025SenateImmediate message.
4/17/2025HousePassed House, yeas 93, nays 0.
4/17/2025HousePlaced on calendar under unfinished business.
4/10/2025HousePlaced on calendar.
4/2/2025HouseCommittee vote: Yeas, 21. Nays, 2.
4/1/2025HouseCommittee report, recommending passage.
4/1/2025HouseSubcommittee recommends passage.
3/25/2025legislatureSubcommittee Meeting: 03/25/2025 8:30AM House Lounge.
3/24/2025HouseSubcommittee: Hayes, Ehlert and Gehlbach.
3/20/2025HouseRead first time, referred to Education.
3/11/2025HouseMessage from Senate.
3/10/2025HouseImmediate message.
3/10/2025SenatePassed Senate, yeas 47, nays 0.
3/10/2025SenateAmendment S-3019 filed, lost.
3/10/2025SenateCommittee report, approving bill.
2/12/2025SenateIntroduced, placed on calendar.
2/12/2025Senate
Bill Text
As Introduced
Enrolled
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