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Rep. Kofalt urges statute change to lock in federal scholarship tax credit and expand Pell eligibility for short-term workforce training
Summary
At a Senate Education Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Kofalt introduced HB 1774 to place a federal scholarship tax-credit opt-in into state law and to extend PEL grant eligibility to short-term workforce certificate programs. Agency staff raised drafting and statutory-authority issues for the opt-in process.
Representative Jim Kofalt introduced House Bill 1774, saying the bill would add two provisions from federal HR1 into state statute: an automatic federal scholarship tax-credit opt-in and an expansion allowing Pell-equivalent grants for short-term workforce training.
"What this does is it opts New Hampshire into a federal scholarship tax credit program automatically each year," Kofalt told the committee, describing a program that lets individuals donate to scholarship-granting organizations and claim a federal income tax credit capped at $1,700 per person. He said the federal rules limit student eligibility to households earning below 300% of area median income and permit scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs) to set eligibility…
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