To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow section 529 education accounts to be used for homeschooling expenses.

Bill: 115-hr-4736
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Smith, Jason [R-MO-8]
Introduced: 2018-01-03
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Elementary and secondary education

Higher education

Student aid and college costs
Latest action: action_date: 2018-01-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow distributions from qualified tuition programs (known as 529 plans) to be used for certain expenses in connection with a homeschool (whether treated as a homeschool or a private school for purposes of state law). </p> <p>The expenses include: curriculum and curricular materials, books or other instructional materials, online educational materials, tuition for tutoring or educational classes outside of the home (if the tutor or instructor is not related to the student), dual enrollment in an institution of higher education, and educational therapies for students with disabilities. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4736 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2018 Mr. Smith of Missouri (for himself, Mr. King of Iowa , and Mrs. Handel ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow section 529 education accounts to be used for homeschooling expenses.

1. Treatment of distributions from section 529 education accounts for homeschooling expenses (a) In general Section 529(c)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by Public Law 115–97 , is amended by striking include a reference to and all that follows and inserting include a reference to— (A) expenses for tuition in connection with enrollment or attendance at an elementary or secondary public, private, or religious school, and (B) expenses for— (i) curriculum and curricular materials, (ii) books or other instructional materials, (iii) online educational materials, (iv) tuition for tutoring or educational classes outside of the home (but only if the tutor or instructor is not related (within the meaning of section 152(d)(2)) to the student), (v) dual enrollment in an institution of higher education, and (vi) educational therapies for students with disabilities, in connection with a homeschool (whether treated as a homeschool or a private school for purposes of applicable State law). . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall take effect as if included in section 11032 of Public Law 115–97 .