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Committee hears bill to allow high school equivalency recipients to qualify for College Bound Scholarship
Summary
A Ways & Means committee hearing on Senate Bill 5,543 reviewed staff analysis, fiscal notes and public testimony on expanding College Bound Scholarship eligibility to students with high school equivalency certificates; no vote was taken.
Senate Bill 5,543, which would expand eligibility for the College Bound Scholarship to students who hold a high school equivalency certificate, was presented to the Ways & Means committee with staff and public testimony but no formal committee action was recorded.
Michelle Ali Shahi, staff to the committee, told members the bill would add students who have received a high school equivalency certificate to those eligible for the College Bound Scholarship, which covers tuition and fees for students who attend two‑ or four‑year public institutions…
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