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Committee hears bill to raise caps on Access Missouri need-based scholarship; sponsors and higher-education groups support increases
Summary
Representative Brenda Shields presented House Bill 265 to raise statutory caps on the Access Missouri need-based scholarship; witnesses from independent colleges, community colleges and Missouri NEA supported the bill and committee members discussed treatment of State Technical College and program funding details.
Representative Brenda Shields introduced House Bill 265, a proposal to raise statutory caps on the Access Missouri need‑based scholarship.
Shields told the committee that Access Missouri, established in 2007, is awarded to full‑time Missouri students who meet the program's student aid index threshold. She said the program's statutory caps have not been updated since 2013 and that tuition increases and full funding of the program in 2022 mean the caps should be adjusted to allow the program to grow. Shields said roughly 40,000 Missouri students use the scholarship annually and that the program's…
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