"Ihe Senate Finance Committee on Thursday voted to allow the state Division of Taxation to reduce a person’s state income-tax refund if the person is delinquent on certain college loans issued by the Rhode Island Student Loan Authority," The Providence-Journal reports. "The agency oversees a portfolio of about $1.1 billion in education loans, including loans that are guaranteed by the federal government and about $450 million in private education loans which are not federally guaranteed." The bill would allow the offset for the agency’s private education loans.