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AZ SB1467

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/1/2018

Primary Sponsor

Steven Yarbrough

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature - Second Regular Session (2018)

AI Summary

  • Expands eligibility for empowerment scholarship accounts to include children in kindergarten through 12th grade beginning in the 2020-2021 school year, with phased implementation starting in 2017-2018.

  • Allows school tuition organizations to award scholarships up to the full cost of tuition for students whose family income does not exceed the reduced-price lunch threshold, beginning in 2019.

  • Changes annual scholarship cap increases from a flat $100 per year through 2018 to either the Metropolitan Phoenix consumer price index or 2 percent annually, whichever is greater, beginning in 2019.

  • Prohibits school tuition organizations from requiring applicants or families to provide goods or services in exchange for receiving educational scholarships or tuition grants.

  • Prevents students from simultaneously receiving scholarships from school tuition organizations and Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts during the same enrollment period.

Legislative Description

STOs; corporations; caps; scholarship eligibility

Referendums

Last Action

House minority caucus: Do pass

3/20/2018

Full Bill Text

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