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Committee advances three higher-education bills to House floor
Summary
The House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development voted to send three bills to the House floor after work sessions: HB 2551 (campus security background reviews, with a dash-1 amendment), HB 3027 (authorizes HECC to seek court orders against career schools), and HB 3028 (moves private program review fees to administrative rule).
The House Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development voted to advance three bills to the House floor during work sessions on Thursday, Feb. 20: House Bill 2,551 as amended, House Bill 3,027, and House Bill 3,028.
The actions were taken in three separate work sessions that the committee opened and closed in the morning. Committee members adopted a dash-1 amendment to HB 2,551 that narrows the bill's requirement so a university governing board must ensure background information is requested and reviewed, rather than requiring the board itself to do the request-and-review work.
The committee then voted to pass HB 2,551 as amended to the full House. The measure, described in staff testimony as requiring public university governing boards to request and review background information — including disciplinary…
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