US Congress Senate Bill 634 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)
Status: Introduced on February 28 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-28 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Allows individual and corporate taxpayers a tax credit for cash contributions to certain scholarship-granting and workforce training organizations. It imposes a cap of $10 billion on the sum of contributions that qualify for a tax credit under this bill. The bill requires the Department of Education, in coordination with the Departments of the Treasury and Labor, to establish, host, and maintain a web portal that (1) lists all eligible scholarship-granting and workforce training organizations; (2) enables contributions to such organizations; (3) provides information about the benefits of this bill; and (4) enables a state to submit and update information about its programs and educational organizations, including information on student eligibility and allowable educational expenses.

Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act

Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]	Sen. Tim Scott [R-SC]	Sen. Lamar Alexander [R-TN]	Sen. Joni Ernst [R-IA]
Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR]	Sen. Pat Toomey [R-PA]	Sen. James Lankford [R-OK]	Sen. Todd Young [R-IN]
Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]	Sen. James Inhofe [R-OK]	Sen. John Boozman [R-AR]	Sen. Marsha Blackburn [R-TN]
Sen. Richard Burr [R-NC]	Sen. Ben Sasse [R-NE]	Sen. Rick Scott [R-FL]	Sen. Kevin Cramer [R-ND]
Sen. Kelly Loeffler [R-GA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-28	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

HB1434 (Related) 2019-02-28 - Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/634/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s634/BILLS-116s634is.pdf