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<item congress="116" measure-type="s" measure-number="4284" measure-id="id116s4284" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2020-07-22" update-date="2021-01-14">
<title>School Choice Now Act</title>
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<action-date>2020-07-22</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><b>School Choice Now Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows the Department of Education (ED) to establish an emergency education freedom grant program to assistance families with education expenses and prevent closures of private schools. It also allows tax credits for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations that provide assistance to families for private school tuition and home-schooling expenses. </p> <p>The Department of the Treasury, in coordination with ED, must establish, host, and maintain a web portal that lists all eligible scholarship-granting programs and provides other specified information.</p>]]></summary-text>
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