Bill > SB443

This bill, known as the Take the Dough, We Gotta Know Act, enacts new provisions and amends existing laws primarily concerning chartered nonpublic schools that participate in scholarship programs like the Educational Choice and Pilot Project scholarship programs, and also addresses disciplinary record requirements for schools. Key provisions include requiring the Auditor of State to audit specific funds of "qualifying schools" (defined as chartered nonpublic schools with at least 10% of their enrollment being scholarship students) that receive public money, mandating annual reporting by these qualifying schools on various aspects of their operations including enrollment, capacity, student demographics, tuition, services offered, and accreditation, and establishing a report card system for these schools similar to those for public schools. The bill also modifies assessment requirements for students in chartered nonpublic schools, particularly those participating in scholarship programs, and clarifies rules around student eligibility for scholarships and the conditions under which they can continue to receive them, including assessment participation. Furthermore, it introduces requirements for maintaining disciplinary records for all students and mandates that chartered nonpublic schools participating in scholarship programs must report their expenditures of state funds annually.