MO SB1071

Expands eligibility for Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts from students with IEPs or low-income families to all Missouri residents in grades K-12 or receiving early childhood special education services who are not illegal aliens

Allows scholarship funds to be used for tuition, textbooks, educational therapies, tutoring, curriculum, virtual school fees, standardized testing fees, computer hardware, summer/after-school programs, and transportation costs including commuter passes

Prohibits use of scholarship funds for consumable supplies (paper, pens, pencils), tuition at private schools outside Missouri, or payments to relatives within the third degree of consanguinity

Qualified schools include charter schools, private schools, public schools, and virtual schools incorporated in Missouri that do not discriminate based on race, color, or national origin

Students leaving public schools for the scholarship program continue to be counted in their resident district's weighted average daily attendance for state and federal funding purposes for up to five years