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Senate advances tax-credit scholarship for students with disabilities after floor debate
Summary
Senators advanced a proposal creating a tax-credit-funded scholarship for students with disabilities, capped at $12 million in year one, after extended floor questioning about oversight, eligibility and accountability. Sponsor Senator Fillmore said schools would administer annual norm‑referenced tests; critics warned of private-school pitfalls.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate moved a bill to create a new tax-credit-funded scholarship program for students with disabilities to the third‑reading calendar on March 1, 2019, after an extended floor debate over eligibility, oversight and fiscal effects.
Senator Lincoln Fillmore, the bill’s sponsor, said the program would let corporations reduce tax liability by donating to scholarship organizations instead of paying a $3,400 tax amount, with the program capped at $12,000,000 in its first year. "That fiscal note comes from the fact that this is capped at $12,000,000 in its first year," Fillmore said on the floor, explaining the revenue impact on…
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