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This bill establishes the School Choice Flex Account (SCFA) Act of 2025, which creates a new education funding mechanism to provide financial support for K-12 students to attend private schools. The bill would establish the SCFA Trust within the State Treasury, initially targeting lower-income families and gradually expanding to all families over four years. For the 2027-28 school year, the bill would provide $8,000 per student and $16,000 for students with exceptional needs to use for tuition and educational expenses at accredited private schools. The SCFA Trust Board would be responsible for administering the accounts, investing funds, and distributing money to eligible schools. Parents would apply through the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish an account, and schools would need to be accredited or in the process of accreditation to participate. The bill also includes a tax provision that would exclude distributions from these accounts from gross income for tax purposes. Importantly, the bill requires that any unused funds at the end of each school year be returned to the state, and the program is designed to be implemented without additional taxpayer cost by reallocating existing education funding. The bill is contingent on voter approval of a related constitutional amendment and would become operative on January 1, 2027.

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