From KASB (we didn’t see this bill come up):

“Senate Assessment and Taxation approves low income scholarship expansion
The Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee approved a bill to expand the state’s new tax credit program for private school scholarship Tuesday immediately after a hearing Tuesday.

“SB 270 is essentially like the clean-up bill passed by the House Education Committee, HB 2174, regarding the low income scholarship program initially passed last session in HB 2506. (The scholarship program language starts at Section 55.) There is one major exception, however. Under the House bill, students receiving a scholarship must be an at-risk student enrolled at a priority or focus school as defined in NCLB regulations. The Senate bill broadens the pool by dropping the priority/focus requirement.
KASB testified against HB 2174 and has the same objections to the House bill to SB 270, but even more so given the expanded pool of eligible students.”

For more information on our opposition to the tax credit scholarship program passed after it was bundled into the Gannon equity funding bill in the final hours of the 2014 session, see here: http://gameonforkansasschools.com/2014/04/why-we-oppose-the-alec-corporate-tax-credit-scholarship-provision/