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Committee restores SGO income limits and pre-K age cap in HB 1326; proposed tax credit for public school foundations fails 4-9
Summary
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday amended House Bill 1326 to reinstate income eligibility limits and a pre-K age cap for Scholarship Granting Organizations, added reporting requirements, rejected a proposed tax credit for public school foundation donations 4-9, and recommitted the bill to Appropriations.
The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday amended House Bill 1326 to reinstate income eligibility limits and a pre-K age cap for Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs), added reporting requirements for SGOs, rejected a separate amendment to create a state tax credit for donations to public school foundations, and then recommitted the bill to the Appropriations Committee.
Senator Spencer Deary, who introduced the SGO-related amendments, said he offered them to "slow that down and to have a better idea for what the funding is that these schools have before we start to spend that money." Deary called Amendment 3 to restore an income threshold for SGO awards and later called Amendment 7 to restore the limit to four-year-olds and to add additional reporting…
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