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ID H0227
Bill
Status
2/27/2013
Primary Sponsor
Revenue and Taxation Committee
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AI Summary
House Bill 227 Summary
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Establishes the Idaho Elementary and Secondary School Scholarship Act, creating a tax credit for taxpayers who contribute to scholarship granting organizations that fund tuition at qualified nonpublic schools for eligible low-income students.
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Allows individual taxpayers and married couples to claim tax credits equal to their full contributions to scholarship organizations, with a 3-year carryforward period; business entities may claim credits up to 50% of tax liability with the same carryforward option.
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Caps aggregate annual tax credits at $10,000,000 per tax year (adjusted for inflation in years after 2014), with excess credits carried forward to the next tax year on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Requires scholarship granting organizations to be 501(c)(3) entities spending at least 90% of donation revenue on educational scholarships, maintaining portable scholarships across qualified schools, and prohibits awarding scholarships to specific students at donor request.
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Effective January 1, 2014; scholarship amounts are exempt from being counted as income or resources for other federal or state grant program eligibility, and the act does not expand state regulatory authority over nonpublic schools beyond program enforcement requirements.
Legislative Description
Adds to existing law relating to education to establish provisions relating to a tax credit for contributions made to a scholarship granting organization, to establish provisions relating to the duties and responsibilities of scholarship granting organizations, to establish provisions relating to the duties and responsibilities of the State Department of Education, to provide for rules and to establish provisions relating to the duties and responsibilities of participating schools, to provide for the limitation of regulatory authority and to provide that the amount of a scholarship shall not be treated as income.
EDUCATION
Last Action
Reported Printed and Referred to Revenue & Taxation
2/28/2013