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Higher‑education panel funds scholarships, maintenance and adopts tuition mitigation proviso for incoming freshmen
Summary
The Ways and Means higher‑education presenter said the budget fully funds lottery scholarships and several grant programs, invests $337 million in maintenance and campus projects and adopts an amended tuition‑mitigation proviso that freezes tuition for continuing undergraduates while allowing a locked‑in rate for incoming freshmen.
Representative Taylor, speaking for the higher‑education subcommittee, summarized investments the subcommittee recommended to support access and campus facilities, and described a contentious issue the committee addressed: tuition mitigation.
The subcommittee recommended full funding of the Lottery Tuition Assistance programs (Life, Hope, Palmetto Fellows and related grants) with roughly $290,000,000 cited for those programs, and additional appropriations including $80,000,000 for NEEC…
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