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SF 159Died when the session ended · January 28, 2021

Relating to educational offerings and funding by establishing a student first scholarship program for certain pupils attending nonpublic schools, establishing a student first scholarship fund, providing an income tax exemption, modifying and establishing charter school programs, modifying provisions governing the state’s open enrollment law including voluntary diversity plans, modifying the tuition and textbook tax credit, providing for the educator expense deduction, modifying provisions related to education data collection and permissible education programs and funding, making appropriations, providing penalties, and including effective date, applicability, and retroactive applicability provisions

Sponsored by the Senate Education Committee

Topics:State budgetK–12 educationTaxesTax credits & incentives

Same legislation: SSB 1065

Where it is now

  1. Done: IntroducedJanuary 20, 2021
  2. Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 20, 2021
  3. Done: Senate committeeJanuary 25, 2021
  4. Done: Passes the SenateJanuary 28, 202126–21
  5. Stopped: House committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
  6. Next: Passes the House
  7. Next: To the Governor
  8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

In plain words

  1. January 20, 2021Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee · as SSB 1065
  2. January 20, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Quirmbach and Zaun · as SSB 1065
  3. January 25, 2021Filed in the Senate
  4. January 25, 2021Approved by the Senate committee
  5. January 25, 2021Subcommittee recommended passing it with changes · as SSB 1065
  6. January 25, 2021Approved by the Senate committee, and given a new number: SF 159 · as SSB 1065
  7. January 26, 2021Sent to the Senate Ways and Means committee
  8. January 26, 2021Senate subcommittee named: Sinclair, Bolkcom and et al
  9. January 26, 2021Subcommittee recommended passing it
  10. January 26, 2021Approved by the Senate committee
  11. January 27, 2021Sent to the Senate Appropriations committee
  12. January 27, 2021Approved by the Senate committee
  13. January 28, 2021Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  14. January 28, 2021Passed the Senate, 26–21
  15. February 1, 2021Arrived in the House
  16. February 11, 2021Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
2021 session · first year of the 89th General Assembly
February 1, 2021
Read first time, referred to Education. H.J. 264. Journal
January 28, 2021
Passed Senate, yeas 26, nays 21. S.J. 192. Journal · Video
January 27, 2021
Committee report, recommending passage. S.J. 175. Journal
January 26, 2021
Committee report, recommending passage. S.J. 163. Journal
January 26, 2021
Subcommittee recommends passage.
January 26, 2021
Subcommittee: Sinclair, Bolkcom, et al. S.J. 161. Journal
January 25, 2021
Committee report, approving bill. S.J. 154. Journal
January 25, 2021
Introduced, placed on calendar. S.J. 151. Journal
January 25, 2021
As SSB 1065: Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 159. S.J. 154. Journal
January 25, 2021
As SSB 1065: Subcommittee recommends amendment and passage.
January 20, 2021
As SSB 1065: Subcommittee: Sinclair, Quirmbach, and Zaun.
January 20, 2021
As SSB 1065: Introduced, referred to Education.

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