HB2984 Summary

• Creates the Tuition Voucher Program Task Force to study the feasibility of implementing a statewide tuition voucher program in Illinois.

• Task force composition includes 2 public members appointed by the Governor, 8 General Assembly members appointed by legislative leaders, 2 teachers organization representatives, 2 school management alliance representatives, and 1 State Board of Education representative.

• Task force members serve without compensation but receive reimbursed reasonable and necessary expenses from State Board of Education appropriations, with travel reimbursement subject to travel control board rules.

• Task force must file a feasibility report to the Governor and General Assembly covering eligible students (K-7 or K-12), covered education expenses, nonpublic school eligibility criteria, application processes, voucher amounts, student assessments, and fiscal impacts.

• Task force is dissolved upon filing its report.