United States · Bill · S
S. 3949 (116th)
Helping Parents Educate Children During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Introduced
11 June 2020
Last action
—
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2936)
Sponsors
—
Subjects
Discovery layer
Source updated
3 January 2025
Summary
Helping Parents Educate Children During the Coronavirus Pandemic This bill expands the types of educational expenses that may be paid from a qualified tuition program (commonly known as a 529 plan) for students enrolled at or attending an elementary or secondary public, private, or religious school. It also permits payments of certain education expenses for home schooling during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency period beginning on March 13, 2020, and ending on the date the emergency period has ended. The bill also permits penalty free distributions from tax-preferred retirement plans for the period after February 29, 2020, and before January 1, 2021, if contributed to a 529 plan.
This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.
Timeline
No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.
Votes
No vote records are attached yet.
Versions
No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.
Documents
3 official files
Introduced in Senate (text)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 June 2020
Introduced in Senate (PDF)
Introduced in Senate · EN · 11 June 2020
Introduced in Senate
summary · EN · 11 June 2020
Sponsors
No sponsors or actors listed by the source.
Related records
No cross-record relationships stored yet.
Sources
PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.
- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3949
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/116/s/3949