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