2008 Homeschool Legislative News
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HONDA Information
Federal: H. RES. 1076
Calling upon the courts to uphold the fundamental and constitutional right of parents...
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Calling upon the courts to uphold the fundamental and constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education of their children. This right includes the decision to school their children at home. We must assume that parents will act in the best interest of their children and that parents, not the government, know what is best for their children. Homeschooling has become phenomenally successful. Homeschooled children routinely out-perform children educated in the public schools. Some of the brightest minds in American history were homeschooled.
~According to
Life, Liberty and Family
June 3, 2008: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Federal: S. 3076
Home School Opportunities Make Education Sound Act of 2008
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LA Senator David Vitter recently introduced a bill to amend the US tax code to provide tax deductions for homeschoolers.
On the one hand, it would certainly seem to open to the door to legislating homeschooling — what expenses would be covered, which ones wouldn't, and why? Who decides, and then what else can be decided with respect to how we homeschool.
~According to
Progressive Homeschoolers of Florida
June 3, 2008: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Federal: S. RES. 572
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Calling upon the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District of California to uphold the fundamental and constitutional right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children.
This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills never make it out of committee. Keep in mind that sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.
May 21, 2008: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
California: Income Taxes:
Credit private school and home school
AB 2605 - introduced by Assemblyman Nakanishi. Income taxes: credit: private school and home school.
Families choosing to send their children to private schools or that homeschool their children are faced with twice paying for their children's education.
Not only do parents pay for their child's private or home education, they must also pay their taxes for public schools, even if they do not agree with the teachings in government schools.
AB 2605 (Nakanishi) will help families in this situation by granting them a yearly tax credit for each of their children. Starting in 2009, AB 2605 would authorize a credit of $500 for each child of a taxpayer in grades kindergarten to 12 attending a nonpublic school.
A "qualified nonpublic school" means a private primary or secondary school, or a home school, grades kindergarten to 12, located in this state.
An alert went out today from Capitol Resource Institute (CRI), in support of tax credits that will help families provide a quality education for their children. CRI is asking people to contact their assemblyman and urge them to support education choice in California.
California homeschoolers should contact their statewide homeschooling organization before supporting this bill. Currently, California law does not contain any definition for the term "homeschool" in any form. This piece of legislation will introduce new language that has never been apart of California law and could open the door for nefarious regulations.
AB 2605 Last Actioned May 12, 2008: Held under submission, ASM Revenue and Taxation.
