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Subcommittee adopts community college H‑1 with tuition restraints, DEI and personnel limits
Summary
The House subcommittee adopted the H‑1 substitute for HB 4,579, a community college appropriation bill that reduces one‑time operations funding, adds tuition‑restraint reporting, and inserts boilerplate restricting DEI spending, salary allocations and athletic participation rules.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education and Community Colleges voted to adopt the H‑1 substitute for House Bill 4,579, the community college appropriation bill, moving the substitute out of committee on a recorded roll call.
House Fiscal Agency analyst Perry Zylak told the subcommittee the H‑1 substitute carries a gross appropriation of $456,700,000, entirely from the School Aid Fund (SAF), and represents a $5,600,000, or 1.2%, reduction from the current fiscal year, driven largely by removal of one‑time appropriations. "This includes a net decrease of $3,600,000 SAF for community college operations, a 1% decrease when compared to the current fiscal year," Zylak said,…
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