Enhancing Educational Opportunities for Home School Students Act

Enhancing Educational Opportunities for Home School Students Act

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).

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.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4862 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4862

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 2018

  Mr. Messer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


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

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Enhancing Educational Opportunities 
for Home School Students Act''.

SEC. 2. 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 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 apply 
to distributions made after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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