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Senate Education panel advances bill to raise community college tuition cap
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 79 to the Senate floor with a "do pass" recommendation after Rep. James Petske said the bill updates a decades-old tuition cap for community colleges and restores limited annual increases.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 79 to the Senate floor with a do-pass recommendation after Representative James Petske described the measure as a narrow change to a long-stagnant tuition cap for community colleges.
Representative James Petske, who represents District 21 in Meridian, told the committee the bill “is essentially changing one number,” and that the cap in state code has not been updated since 2008. He said all community colleges hit the cap around 2016 and that inability to raise tuition has constrained colleges’…
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