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HJ 579 Study; tax credits to families with children.

Introduced by: J. Randy Forbes (by request) | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

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Tax credits to families with children in private schools or receiving in-home instruction. Requests the establishment of a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of tax credits to families with children in private schools or receiving in-home instruction as a means of relieving local governments with growing populations of some of the burden of providing education services. The joint subcommittee will examine (i) tax credit programs and the various options available, (ii) the costs of the various tax credit alternatives, (iii) statutory and constitutional issues related to tax credits, (iv) effects of tax credits on future state revenues, (v) issues related to education of children with disabilities and children for whom English is a second language, and (vi) the effects of tax credits on local government concerns, including educational disparity, public school enrollments, school attendance, shifts in school demographics, and the funding of capital projects.


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