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Senators adopt amendment to keep income limit, add one-year grace and bar double-dipping for tax-credit scholarship
Summary
Senators approved amendment 0642s to a tax-credit scholarship measure, preserving a 300%‑of‑poverty eligibility limit, increasing the share of awards reserved for students on free and reduced‑price lunch from 40% to 50%, adding a one‑year grace for returning recipients, and clarifying that families may not receive both an Education Freedom Account (EFA) award and a tax‑credit scholarship.
Senators approved amendment 0642s to a tax-credit scholarship measure, preserving a 300%‑of‑poverty eligibility limit, increasing the share of awards reserved for students on free and reduced-price lunch from 40% to 50%, adding a one‑year grace for returning recipients, and clarifying that families may not receive both an Education Freedom Account (EFA) award and a tax‑credit scholarship.
The amendment was offered as part of debate on the scholarship program’s statutory language and was adopted by voice vote. “I worked with the prime sponsor on this. His goal for this bill was to increase the number of low to moderate income students who had access to the tax credit,” Senator…
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