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Subcommittee advances bill to raise education tax-credit cap to $25 million
Summary
The Ways & Means (Income Tax) subcommittee voted to pass HB 565, which would raise the annual cap on a public-school tax-credit program from $15 million to $25 million and preserve per-filer ceilings; proponents said the change is needed after demand nearly exhausted the current cap.
Representative Townsend presented HB 565 to the subcommittee, saying the program — administered through the Georgia Foundation for Public Education — supports innovative projects in public schools and that "right now, we're doing it at a $15,000,000 clip per year" but supporters want to "increase that to 25,000,000." Townsend said the existing…
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