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FL H0001
The Hope Scholarship Program


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Introduced
11/01/2017
In Committee
11/01/2017
Crossed Over
03/05/2018
Passed
Dead
03/10/2018

Introduced Session

2018 Regular Session

Bill Summary

Establishing the Hope Scholarship Program; requiring a school district to notify an eligible student's parent of the program and specified opportunities; authorizing certain persons to elect to direct certain state sales and use tax revenue to be transferred to a nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations for the Hope Scholarship Program; requiring the Department of Revenue to share specified information with eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations; providing private school requirements for participation in educational scholarship programs; revising eligible expenditures for the Gardiner Scholarship Program, etc.

AI Summary

This bill establishes the Hope Scholarship Program to provide the parent of a public school student who was subjected to an incident of violence or bullying at school the opportunity to transfer the student to another public school or request a scholarship for the student to enroll in and attend an eligible private school. The bill requires a school district to notify an eligible student's parent of the program and specified opportunities, and authorizes certain persons to elect to direct certain state sales and use tax revenue to be transferred to a nonprofit scholarship-funding organization for the Hope Scholarship Program. The bill also revises eligible expenditures for the Gardiner Scholarship Program.

Committee Categories

Budget and Finance, Education

Sponsors (3)

Other Sponsors (2)

Education Committee (H), PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee (H)

Last Action

Died in Messages (on 03/10/2018)

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