Virginia House Bill 1371 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on September 9 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-07 - Left in Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Education Savings Account Program established; Education Education Savings Account Program established; Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credits. Establishes the Education Savings Account Program, to be administered by the Department of Education, whereby the parent of any individual who is a resident of the Commonwealth and who is eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school may apply for an Education Savings Account for his child into which the Department of Education deposits certain state and local funds and from which the parent makes certain enumerated qualifying expenses to educate his child in a setting and a manner other than full-time education in a public school. The bill requires the Program to be fully implemented prior to the beginning of the 2023–2024 school year. The bill also increases the value of the Education Improvement Scholarships income tax credit for a donation to a scholarship foundation from 65 percent to 100 percent of the donation. The bill removes the aggregate limit on tax credits per year, which under current law is $25 million, and removes individual minimum and maximum required donation amounts. The bill raises the threshold for students to qualify for scholarships from 300 percent of the current poverty guidelines to 1,000 percent of free or reduced-price lunch standards or, for eligible students with a disability, from 400 percent of the current poverty guidelines to 1,200 percent of such standards. The bill grants scholarship foundations the discretion to determine what expenses may be funded by tax-credit-subsidized scholarships. Under current law, such expenses are limited by statute. The bill expands eligibility for scholarships to any student who is a resident of the Commonwealth and eligible to enroll in a public elementary or secondary school in the Commonwealth. Current law restricts eligibility to certain categories of students. The bill removes the requirement that scholarship-funded schools report test results of scholarship-funded students. The provisions of the bill pertaining to the Education Improvement Scholarships income tax credits apply starting with taxable year 2023.

Education Savings Account Program; established, Education Improvement Scholarships tax credits.

Del. Phillip Scott [R]	Del. Jeffrey Campbell [R]	Del. AC Cordoza [R]	Del. Hyland Fowler [R]
Del. Nicholas Freitas [R]	Del. Chris Runion [R]	Del. Wendell Walker [R]	Del. Michael Webert [R]
Del. Bill Wiley [R]	Del. Wren Williams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-07	House	Left in Education
2023-01-24	House	Assigned Education sub: Early Childhood/Innovation
2022-09-09	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2022-09-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100177D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	222.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	222.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	254.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	439.25	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	439.26	(n/a)	See Bill Text
58	1	439.28	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1371
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1371+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23104981A.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1371F122+PDF