H0250B0211A00158 NAD:NLG 02/07/17 #90 A00158
AMENDMENTS TO HOUSE BILL NO. 250
Sponsor: REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS
Printer's No. 211
Amend Bill, page 1, line 6, by inserting after "limitations"
and providing for oversight of opportunity scholarship tax
credit
Amend Bill, page 2, by inserting between lines 21 and 22
Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
Section 2008.1-B. Oversight of opportunity scholarship tax
credit.
(a) Organizations.--An opportunity scholarship organization
that has received contributions from business firms granted a
tax credit under this article shall report the following to the
Education Committee of the Senate and the Education Committee
and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives by
September 1 of each year:
(1) Out of the funds contributed to an opportunity
scholarship organization by a business firm for a tax credit
under this article, the number of scholarships and amount of
funds expended by an opportunity scholarship organization
during the immediately preceding school year.
(2) The name of each participating public school or
participating nonpublic school that received funds described
in paragraph (1) from an opportunity scholarship organization
during the immediately preceding school year, along with the
amount received.
(3) Assurance that the opportunity scholarship
organization complies with applicable Federal and State
antidiscrimination laws.
(b) Participating schools.--A participating public school or
participating nonpublic school that received a scholarship or
funds from an opportunity scholarship organization under this
article shall report the following to the Education Committee of
the Senate and the Education Committee and Commerce Committee of
the House of Representatives by September 1 of each year:
(1) The number of scholarships or amount of funds
received during the immediately preceding school year.
(2) The name of each opportunity scholarship
organization that contributed a scholarship or funds to the
school during the immediately preceding school year.
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(3) Annual growth as measured by the Pennsylvania Value
Added Assessment System for the school year in which the
participating school received a scholarship or funds.
(4) Incidents of violence at the school during the
school year in which the participating school received a
scholarship or funding.
Amend Bill, page 2, line 22, by striking out "2" and
inserting
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See A00158 in
the context
of HB0250