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H.B. 185 Enrolled

                 

REAUTHORIZATION OF INDIVIDUAL

                 
INCOME TAX CREDIT - TUTORING

                 
DISABLED DEPENDENTS

                 
2002 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Judy Ann Buffmire

                  This act modifies the Individual Income Tax Act to reauthorize tutoring tax credits for
                  disabled dependents for an additional seven years.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      59-10-130, as enacted by Chapter 291, Laws of Utah 1996
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 59-10-130 is amended to read:
                       59-10-130. Tutoring tax credits for disabled dependents.
                      (1) For purposes of this section:
                      (a) "Disabled dependent" means a person who:
                      (i) is disabled under Section 53A-15-301 ;
                      (ii) attends a public or private kindergarten, elementary, or secondary school; and
                      (iii) is eligible to receive disability program monies under Section 53A-17a-111 .
                      (b) (i) "Tutoring" means educational services:
                      (A) approved by an individual education plan team [and];
                      (B) provided to a disabled dependent; and
                      (C) that supplement classroom instruction the disabled dependent described in Subsection
                  (1)(b)(i)(B) receives at a public or private kindergarten, elementary, or secondary school in the
                  state.
                      (ii) "Tutoring" does not include:
                      (A) purchases of instructional books and material; [and] or
                      (B) payments for attendance at extracurricular activities including sporting events, musical
                  or dramatic events, speech activities, or driver education.


                      (2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), for taxable years beginning on or after
                  January 1, 1996, [through] but beginning on or before December 31, [2002] 2009, a taxpayer
                  [entitled] allowed to claim a disabled dependent as a dependent under this section may claim for                   each
                  disabled dependent a nonrefundable tutoring tax credit in an amount equal to 25% of the costs paid
                  by the taxpayer for tutoring the disabled dependent.
                      (b) The nonrefundable tutoring tax credit under Subsection (2)(a) may not exceed $100.
                      (3) The nonrefundable tutoring tax credit under Subsection (2) may be claimed by a taxpayer
                  only in the taxable year in which the taxpayer pays the tutoring costs for which the credit is claimed.

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