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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 1550

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1161 Session of 2007


        INTRODUCED BY PIPPY, FOLMER, FONTANA, COSTA, M. WHITE, ERICKSON,
           EARLL, WASHINGTON, RAFFERTY, ORIE, C. WILLIAMS, KITCHEN,
           RHOADES, WONDERLING, D. WHITE, BROWNE AND REGOLA,
           NOVEMBER 13, 2007

        REFERRED TO EDUCATION, NOVEMBER 13, 2007

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
     2     act relating to the public school system, including certain
     3     provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
     4     schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
     5     laws relating thereto," further providing, in educational
     6     improvement tax credit, for the definitions of "educational
     7     improvement organization" and "innovative educational
     8     program."

     9     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    10  hereby enacts as follows:
    11     Section 1.  The definitions of "educational improvement
    12  organization" and "innovative educational program" in section
    13  2002-B of the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as
    14  the Public School Code of 1949, amended July 11, 2006 (P.L.1092,
    15  No.114), are amended to read:
    16  Section 2002-B.  Definitions.
    17     The following words and phrases when used in this article
    18  shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
    19  context clearly indicates otherwise:
    20     * * *

     1     "Educational improvement organization."  A nonprofit entity
     2  which:
     3         (1)  is exempt from Federal taxation under section
     4     501(c)(3) 34 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (Public Law
     5     99-514, 26 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.); and
     6         (2)  contributes at least 80% of its annual receipts as
     7     grants to a public school, a chartered school as defined in
     8     section 1376.1(a) or a private school approved in accordance
     9     with section 1376 for innovative educational programs.
    10  For purposes of this definition a nonprofit entity "contributes"
    11  its annual cash receipts when it expends or otherwise
    12  irrevocably encumbers those funds for expenditure during the
    13  then current fiscal year of the nonprofit entity or during the
    14  next succeeding fiscal year of the nonprofit entity.
    15     * * *
    16     "Innovative educational program."  An advanced academic or
    17  similar program that is not part of the regular academic program
    18  of a public school but that enhances the curriculum or academic
    19  program of [the] a public school, chartered school as defined in
    20  section 1376.1(a) or private school approved in accordance with
    21  section 1376, or provides pre-kindergarten programs to public
    22  school students[.], students of a chartered school as defined in
    23  section 1376.1(a) or students of a private school approved in
    24  accordance with section 1376.
    25     * * *
    26     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.



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