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JBC approves content for tuition‑waiver bill for Colorado National Guard; funding, institutional impacts debated
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee introduced and approved the content of a bill draft to convert Colorado National Guard tuition assistance into a tuition waiver, instructing staff to add language capping total credit hours and to work with legal services on technical corrections.
The Joint Budget Committee voted to introduce a bill draft to convert the Colorado National Guard tuition assistance program to a tuition‑waiver program with committee amendments, including a limit on total credit hours and a direction for staff to make technical corrections. The committee approved content and named Senate and House sponsors.
John Catlett of JBC staff presented the draft and said the plan would convert the existing tuition assistance program to a waiver program, maintaining most requirements and providing a baseline payment per member with adjustment factors intended to limit impacts on smaller institutions. Catlett described the waiver as last‑dollar: students would be required to apply for…
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