US Congress House Bill 554 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 27 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-04-29 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Enhancing Educational Opportunities for all Students Act Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow a state educational agency to allocate grant funds among local educational agencies based on the number of eligible children (children age 5 to 17 from a family with an income below the poverty level) enrolled in the public schools and the state-accredited private schools within each local agency's geographic jurisdiction. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow payment of home school expenses from Coverdell education savings accounts; (2) remove the dollar limitation on contributions to Coverdell education savings accounts and require such accounts to provide adequate safeguards to prevent contributions from exceeding the amount necessary to provide for the qualified education expenses of the account beneficiary; and (3) allow tax-exempt qualified tuition programs (529 tuition programs) to pay qualified pre-kindergarten, elementary, and secondary education expenses.

Enhancing Educational Opportunities for all Students Act

Rep. Luke Messer [R-IN]	Rep. Todd Rokita [R-IN]	Rep. Bruce Westerman [R-AR]	Rep. Dave Brat [R-VA]
Rep. Ron DeSantis [R-FL]	Rep. Matt Salmon [R-AZ]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-29	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
2015-01-27	House	Referred to House Education and the Workforce
2015-01-27	House	Referred to House Ways and Means
2015-01-27	House	Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
2015-01-27	House	Introduced in House

SB306 (Related) 2015-01-29 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
HB553 (Related) 2015-01-27 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
SB72 (Related) 2015-01-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
SB101 (Related) 2015-01-07 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/554/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr554/BILLS-114hr554ih.pdf