House Education

Thursday, April 30, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Education Committee spent a long day advancing a $10.2 billion School Finance Act and a higher-ed modernization bill unanimously, but the sparks came from a narrowly split cradle-to-career grant program and a charter-school bond bill — while sponsors asked the committee to kill their own scholarship-tax-credit measure.

Key Actions

·Scholarship Granting OrganizationsKilled

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Notable Quotes

“I have previously described this effort as building an airplane in the fog while it is already in the air. That analogy reflects the reality we are facing with one small change. We do not have an airport to land in.”
Lori Goldstein — The freshman sponsor's vivid explanation for why he and Rep. Hamrick asked to kill their own bill to regulate the federal tax-credit scholarship program.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction

Yes (11)Mary Bradfield, Ava Flanell, Lori Garcia Sander, Lindsay Gilchrist, Eliza Hamrick, Anthony Hartsook, Dusty Johnson, Jacque Phillips, Katie Stewart, Tammy Story, Meghan Lukens

Excused (2)Jennifer Bacon, Matthew Martinez

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (13)Jennifer Bacon, Mary Bradfield, Ava Flanell, Lori Garcia Sander, Lindsay Gilchrist, Eliza Hamrick, Anthony Hartsook, Dusty Johnson, Jacque Phillips, Katie Stewart, Tammy Story, Matthew Martinez, Meghan Lukens

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Referred to Committee on FinanceAction

Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Ava Flanell, Lindsay Gilchrist, Jacque Phillips, Katie Stewart, Matthew Martinez, Meghan Lukens

No (6)Lori Garcia Sander, Eliza Hamrick, Anthony Hartsook, Dusty Johnson, Tammy Story, Mary Bradfield

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (11)Jennifer Bacon, Mary Bradfield, Ava Flanell, Lori Garcia Sander, Lindsay Gilchrist, Anthony Hartsook, Dusty Johnson, Jacque Phillips, Katie Stewart, Matthew Martinez, Meghan Lukens

No (2)Eliza Hamrick, Tammy Story

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TranscriptPreview

To order. Mr. Beck, please call the roll. Representative Bacon. Excused. Bradfield. Here. Lanell. Excused. Garcia. Sander. Gilchrist. Here. Amrick. Here. Hartsuk. Here. Johnson. Here. Phillips. Yes Stuart Kay? Here. Story. Excused. Martinez. Here. Madam Chair. Here. Okay. Today we are hearing five bills in the House Education Committee and we are starting with House Bill 1292. Our bill sponsors are here. Who would like to start? Rep. Goldstein. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you Members of the Education Committee. Thank you for giving Representative Hamrick and I the opportunity to talk About House Bill 26201292 scholarship granting organizations this bill has been quite the experience for me as a freshman legislator. I have previously described this effort as building an airplane in the fog while it is already in the air. That analogy reflects the reality we are facing with one small change. We do not have an airport to land in. Federal guidance is still evolving and we do not have the luxury of waiting for perfect clarity on where to land with this bill. I want to be clear as to why I brought this bill forward. To me, this tax credit program created through the passage…

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