The SITAKS Public Policy Committee co-chaired by Perry Puccetti, Triple-I and Neal Sharma, Digital Evolution has been working over the past months to develop the SITAKS State Legislative Platform.  Our draft platform 2010 is as follows:

• Angel Tax Credits:  Eliminate the 10% reduction of carry forward inserted in last year’s HB2365 which greatly diminishes the attractiveness of the ATC program to investors. 
• Angel Tax Credits:  Provide a longer runway for software and IT companies.  Currently, software/IT companies need to be less than 5 years old to be considered eligible for investment.  As comparison, the current eligibility criteria for Bioscience companies is ten years.
• STEM:  Add back “Computer Science” as one of the approved units in either the mathematics or natural sciences university Qualified Admissions requirements.   The Kansas Board of Regents is removing the Computer Technology requirement from the Qualification Admissions curriculum.  Our concern is that by removing this requirement without allowing for computer science courses to count toward core graduation requirements, they will encourage students to focus only on core requirements and K-12 computer science courses in Kansas will disappear.

Join the Public Policy Committee and mark your calendar for the SITAKS Legislative Hill Day.