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Committee recommends SB295 with replace‑all amendment that sets temporary caps and priority groups for Education Freedom Accounts
Summary
Finance Division 2 recommended SB295 "OTP A" with a replace‑all amendment (2271h) that simplifies Education Freedom Account (EFA) language, removes income caps in definitions, creates rolling enrollment, and imposes temporary enrollment caps starting at 10,000 for 2025–26 with priority categories that remain exempt from caps.
Finance Division 2 recommended SB295 "OTP A" as amended after the committee adopted a replace‑all amendment the chair introduced to clarify the Education Freedom Account (EFA) statute and add a two‑phase enrollment scheme.
The amendment author, speaking as chair of the work session, said the change is primarily editorial and structural: "I actually wrote this amendment… my real goal here was just to simplify it and clarify it without changing the purpose of it." The amendment replaces existing language in multiple sections of the EFA RSAs to make definitions and enrollment mechanics easier to follow and to add a temporary cap mechanism.
Key elements of the adopted amendment (2271h) include:
• Priority guidelines: students currently enrolled in the program, siblings of current enrollees, children with disabilities, and students from families at or below the 350% income…
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