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Regents staff outline 2025 higher-education bills, caution on timing and constitutional amendments
Summary
Board staff told the Legislative Committee they are tracking numerous 2025 bills that affect higher education, including TOPS-related physician-recruitment language, financial-aid alignment, deferred-maintenance funding tools and proposals tied to Board of Regents responsibilities.
Board of Regents staff briefed the Legislative Committee on a broad legislative package that the board is tracking for the 2025 session, including bills and resolutions that affect higher education funding, student aid and campus operations.
Staff described a slate of priorities and bills being followed: a resolution to improve student advising and work-based learning; a bill (reported favorably in House Education) tied to physician recruitment that would allow out-of-state students who paused TOPS eligibility to restart TOPS at the graduate (medical/dental) level in exchange for a three-year return-to-state service commitment; a proposal to align financial-aid programs serving…
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