2025 bills / H.B. 476
H.B. 476 Tax Return Donation Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a School Meals Debt Relief Fund that lets individual taxpayers voluntarily designate contributions to it on their state tax returns. It requires school districts to report unpaid school meal debt, has the State Board of Education collect and verify that data, and distributes fund money to each district in proportion to its share of statewide meal debt.
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Official description
- creates a School Meals Debt Relief Fund
- allows individual taxpayers to designate contributions to the fund on tax returns
- establishes reporting requirements for local education agencies regarding school meals debt
- provides for a distribution process based on each local education agency's proportion of total statewide school meals debt
- requires the State Board of Education to collect and verify school meals debt data
- delegates rulemaking authority to the State Board of Education for program administration
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 476 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 476 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 noHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 noHouse Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how
- 66 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFinal House vote · Feb 26, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 3, 2025Who voted how