Hawaii Senate Bill 2606 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Introduced on January 19 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-24 - Referred to EDU, WAM.
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Establishes the Hawaii tax credit scholarship program to benefit students with disabilities by providing scholarships to cover transportation costs and any other educational fees associated with a student attending a public school that is not in the service area where the student resides or a nonpublic special education school or program. Establishes eligibility criteria for students to apply for the scholarship program, responsibilities of the department of taxation and department of education, and eligibility criteria for nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations. Applies to tax years beginning after 12/31/17.

Relating To Education.

Sen. Donna Kim [D]	Sen. William Espero [D]	Sen. Mike Gabbard [D]	Sen. Brickwood Galuteria [D]
Sen. Josh Green [D]	Sen. Lorraine Inouye [D]	Sen. Kaiali'i Kahele [D]	Sen. Russell Ruderman [D]
Sen. Stanley Chang [D]	Sen. Les Ihara [D]	Sen. Gil Keith-agaran [D]	Sen. Gil Riviere [D]
Sen. Brian Taniguchi [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-24	Senate	Referred to EDU, WAM.
2018-01-22	Senate	Passed First Reading.
2018-01-19	Senate	Introduced.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2606&year=2018
Text	https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2018/bills/SB2606_.HTM