Adds to existing law to establish the Empowering Parents Grant Program, which provides funds to eligible students for certain education expenses.

The Empowering Parents Grant Program provides funding to parents to help meet their child’s educational needs and to address any learning loss. $1,000 per student or a maximum of $3,000 per family will be available for public and non-public students to address learning loss and provide support for our most at-risk students by providing resources in addition to what is available during the school day. Grants are available first to families whose Adjusted Gross Income is at or below $60,000 per year, then to families earning up to $75,000 and then to everyone else for as long as the funding lasts. Parents will be able to access and spend the grant funds on behalfoftheirchildforapprovededucationalexpensesthroughadigitalplatform. AParentalAdvisoryPanelis established to help with the implementation and administration of the program. The purpose of the emergency clause is to allow the program to be instituted quickly by the State Board of Education and to get funding into the hands of parents as quickly as possible.