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Conference committee accepts House formula, keeps pharmacy factor at 14 and trims multiple one-time higher-education items
Summary
A Senate–House conference committee voted unanimously to accept the House version of the higher-education funding formula while retaining a pharmacy factor of 14, and reached consensus to remove or reduce several one-time appropriations. Several large campus requests were deferred to a later session today.
Chairman Sorvaugh opened the conference committee on Senate Bill 2003, the higher-education budget, and the panel unanimously approved a motion to accept the House proposal for the funding formula while keeping the pharmacy professional school factor set at 14.
The committee’s decision on the formula was the lone roll-call vote recorded during the session. After a motion and second, Chairman Sorvaugh called the roll; Senators Shively and Thomas and Representatives Swan Tech, Sanford and Richter voted “aye.” “It carried unanimously,” Sorvaugh said after the tally.
Committee members said the accepted formula aligns the professional schools’ treatment between the House and Senate positions while preserving the lower pharmacy factor. That change alters individual institution allocations compared with the…
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