Bill > HR8100

Introduced Session

To provide for emergency education freedom grants, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish tax credits to encourage individual and corporate taxpayers to contribute to scholarships for students through eligible scholarship-granting organizations, and for other purposes. This bill provides for emergency education freedom grants and allows individual and corporate taxpayers a tax credit for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations. The bill directs the Department of the Treasury, in coordination with the Department of Education, to establish, host, and maintain a web portal that (1) lists all eligible scholarship-granting organizations; (2) enables contributions to such organizations; (3) provides information about the tax benefits of this bill; and (4) enables a state to submit and update information about its programs and scholarship-granting organizations, including information on student eligibility and allowable educational expenses.

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Bradley Byrne (R)*,  Virginia Foxx (R),  Daniel Lipinski (D),  Mark Walker (R), 

Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (on 08/25/2020)

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