SC - Issue: Vouchers


	"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell British philosopher, historian, logician, and mathematician. 1872-1970.

Issue: School Vouchers

On this year's ballot voters will be asked to vote on whether or not to allow the Voucher program created by House Bill 148 (H.B. 148) during the last legislative session to go into effect. The exact language on the ballot will be as follows:

CITIZENS' STATE REFERENDUM NUMBER 1

In February 2007, the Utah Legislature passed H.B. 148, Education Vouchers. This bill will take effect only if approved by the voters. The bill:

establishes a scholarship program for
- qualifying school-age children who newly enroll in eligible private schools; and
- lower income school-age children who continue their enrollment in eligible private schools;
provides for scholarships within that program of $500 to $3,000, depending on family size and income, increasing those scholarship amounts in future years; and
allows school districts to retain some per-student funding for scholarship students who transfer to private schools

Are you for or against H.B. 148 taking effect?

o FOR

o AGAINST

The law (pending this referendum vote) related to this voucher program is included in Utah State Code Title 53A Chapter 1a

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