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Committee considers expanding tax‑credit scholarship program, raising credit to 100% and widening eligibility
Summary
Senate Bill 87 would expand eligibility for Kansas’ low‑income student scholarship tax‑credit program to include students in foster care and children of military and certain public‑safety parents, require faster KSDE eligibility verification, and raise the donor tax credit to 100% while adjusting the program cap.
Senate Bill 87 drew extended testimony at a Kansas Senate Education Committee hearing on proposals to expand the state’s low‑income student scholarship tax‑credit program, adjust the tax credit for donors, and change verification and cap procedures for scholarship‑granting organizations (SGOs).
Tamara Lawrence, committee reviser, summarized the bill’s main changes: it would add categories of students eligible for scholarships (those who have been in foster care or kinship placement; students whose parent is on active duty in the military or was killed in the line of duty; and students with a parent who is an EMS provider, firefighter or law‑enforcement officer) with no income threshold for those categories; require the State Department of Education to provide eligibility…
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