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Military Child Educational Freedom Act
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Military Child Educational Freedom Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to tax-exempt Coverdell education savings accounts, to permit members of the Armed Forces serving on extended active duty to use the accounts for certain education expenses incurred in connection with a home school that provides elementary or secondary education and is treated under state law as a home school or a private school.
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2017 · fourth_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Support of expanding the Coverdell Education Savings Account to include homeschool expenses, and also to expand 529 Plans to include k-12 homeschool expenses. Support of expanding the Child Tax Credit. Support of H.R. 2624, the Military Child Educational Freedom Act, introduced by Congressman Joe Wilson, which will expand Coverdell Education Savings Accounts for military families who homeschool their children. Support of H.R.1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, due to its doubling of the Child Tax Credit. HSLDA strongly supported the Ted Cruz Amendment which would have expanded 529 plans to homeschool expenses. Meetings with Congressional staff, White House staff, staff to the Vice President, and Department of Education staff to oppose language such as in H.R. 610 which would give federal vouchers to homeschoolers. HSLDA opposes this because it could lead to future regulations on homeschoolers.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H
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Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, White House Office
2017 · fourth_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Support of expanding the Coverdell Education Savings Account to include homeschool expenses, and also to expand 529 Plans to include k-12 homeschool expenses. Support of expanding the Child Tax Credit. Support of H.R. 2624, the Military Child Educational Freedom Act, introduced by Congressman Joe Wilson, which will expand Coverdell Education Savings Accounts for military families who homeschool their children. Support of H.R.1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, due to its doubling of the Child Tax Credit. HSLDA strongly supported the Ted Cruz Amendment which would have expanded 529 plans to homeschool expenses. Meetings with Congressional staff, White House staff, staff to the Vice President, and Department of Education staff to oppose language such as in H.R. 610 which would give federal vouchers to homeschoolers. HSLDA opposes this because it could lead to future regulations on homeschoolers.
Client expense: $30,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, State, Dept of (DOS), U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, White House Office
2017 · third_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Support of expanding the Coverdell Education Savings Account to include homeschool expenses, and also to expand 529 Plans to include k-12 homeschool expenses. Support of expanding the Child Tax Credit. Support of H.R. 2624, the Military Child Educational Freedom Act, introduced by Congressman Joe Wilson, which will expand Coverdell Education Savings Accounts for military families who homeschool their children. Meetings with Congressional staff, White House staff, staff to the Vice President, and Department of Education staff to oppose language such as in H.R. 610 which would give federal vouchers to homeschoolers. HSLDA opposes this because it could lead to future regulations on homeschoolers.
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, White House Office
2017 · second_quarter · Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
Support of expanding the Coverdell Education Savings Account to include homeschool expenses, and also to expand 529 Plans to include k-12 homeschool expenses. Support of H.R. 2624, the Military Child Educational Freedom Act, introduced by Congressman Joe Wilson, which will expand Coverdell Education Savings Accounts for military families who homeschool their children. Meetings with Congressional staff, White House staff, staff to the Vice President, and Department of Education staff to oppose language such as in H.R. 610 which would give federal vouchers to homeschoolers. HSLDA opposes this because it could lead to future regulations on homeschoolers.
Client expense: $40,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: Education, Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Office of the Vice President of the United States, SENATE, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, White House Office