students would be able to have the full amount of their tuition reimbursed through credits on their Kentucky tax returns if they stay in-state to work
As governor, James Comer would have Kentucky students' full tuition reimbursed through credits on Kentucky tax returns if they stay in the state to work.
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provide in-state tuition tax credits for college graduates
Comer also says he wants to cut in half the cost of a four-year degree at University of Louisville or University of Kentucky from about $40,000 to $20,000 and provide tuition tax credits for college graduates who stay to work in state.
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The campaign plan said Kentucky students could get the full amount of their tuition reimbursed through credits on their Kentucky tax returns if they stayed in-state to work.
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The official Kentucky primary results list James R. Comer in the Republican governor race and show Matt Bevin winning the nomination with 70,480 votes to Comer’s 57,951.
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The official House biography lists Comer as Kentucky agriculture commissioner from 2012 to 2015 and a U.S. representative elected in 2016, with House service continuing into the 119th Congress; it does not list service as Kentucky governor.
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Kentucky Revenue's current tax-credit page describes the Education Tuition Tax Credit as 25 percent of federal American Opportunity and Lifetime Learning credits, with no full-tuition reimbursement or in-state-work condition listed.
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Comer made the proposal during his 2015 Kentucky gubernatorial campaign, but he lost the Republican primary and never became governor, so he had no gubernatorial term in which to implement the promised Kentucky tax-return tuition reimbursement. The available Kentucky tax-credit guidance also does not show a later full-tuition reimbursement tied to graduates staying in Kentucky to work. There is no evidence that Comer, in a later federal office, materially advanced an equivalent outcome that became law.
Comer promised this as a Kentucky gubernatorial candidate, but he lost the 2015 Republican primary and never became governor. The supplied evidence shows the tuition reimbursement tax-credit plan was a campaign proposal, not an enacted gubernatorial or federal action by Comer. There is no evidence that he later wrote, sponsored, or materially advanced a measure that delivered full tuition reimbursement through Kentucky tax credits for students who stayed in-state to work.