Virginia House Bill 1078 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-02-13 - Left in Finance
Pending: House Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; limits eligibility to pre-kindergarten students. Provides that, on and after June 30, 2018, eligibility for Education Improvement Scholarships shall be limited to children in nonpublic pre-kindergarten programs and those students who received scholarships for the 2017 school year and each year thereafter. Under current law, tax credits are awarded for donations to foundations that use the funds to award scholarships to certain students in grades K-12 who attend nonpublic schools. The bill defines an eligible pre-kindergarten child and a nonpublic pre-kindergarten program and sets out several other curriculum and administrative requirements that must be met by a nonpublic pre-kindergarten program in order for children attending the program to be eligible to receive scholarships under the tax credit program. Under the bill, the Virginia Council for Private Education or the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation will certify nonpublic pre-kindergarten programs meeting such curriculum and administrative requirements. The bill provides that the maximum annual scholarship a child will receive is the lesser of his actual educational expenses or the state share of the grant per child under the Virginia Preschool Initiative for the locality in which the child resides.

Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits; limits eligibility to pre-kindergarten students.

Sen. Chris Head [R]

2018-02-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-13	House	Left in Finance
2018-02-02	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 0-N)
2018-02-01	House	Assigned Finance sub: Subcommittee #3
2018-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Finance
2018-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101708D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
58	1	439.25	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	439.28	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1078
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1078+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1003V0009+HB1078