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Introduced Session

Parental Choice Education Savings Accounts established. Permits the parents of qualified students, defined in the bill, to apply to the school division in which the qualified student resides for a one-year, renewable Parental Choice Education Savings Account that consists of an amount that is equivalent to a certain percentage of all applicable annual Standards of Quality per pupil state funds appropriated for public school purposes and apportioned to the resident school division in which the qualified student resides, including the per pupil share of state sales tax funding in basic aid and any state per pupil share of special education funding for which the qualified student is eligible. The bill permits the parent of the qualified student to use the moneys in such account for certain education-related expenses of the qualified student, including tuition, deposits, fees, and required textbooks at a private elementary school or secondary school that is located in the Commonwealth. The bill also contains provisions relating to auditing, rescinding, and reviewing expenses made from such accounts.

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Glenn Davis (R)*,  David LaRock (R)*,  Phillip Scott (R)*,  Terry Austin (R),  Kathy Byron (R),  Jeffrey Campbell (R),  Ronnie Campbell (R),  Aijalon Cordoza (R),  Tara Durant (R),  Anne Ferrell Tata (R),  Hyland Fowler (R),  Nicholas Freitas (R),  Karen Greenhalgh (R),  Chris Head (R),  Emily Jordan (R),  Marie March (R),  Roxann Robinson (R),  Chris Runion (R),  Kim Taylor (R),  Wendell Walker (R),  Michael Webert (R),  William Wiley (R),  Wren Williams (R),  Scott Wyatt (R), 

Passed by indefinitely in Education and Health (9-Y 6-N) (on 03/03/2022)

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