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Panel reviews changes to Career Builders program and expands need‑based grant cap to in‑state highest tuition rate
Summary
Senate Bill 2147 would clarify repayment terms for the Career Builders scholarship/loan program, allow students living within 50 miles of North Dakota to qualify, and raise the supplemental state grant cap to the highest in‑state public university tuition rate; fiscal note estimated at about $6.1 million per year.
Senate Bill 2147, presented to the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division, would make several adjustments to the state’s Career Builders program and to the supplemental state grant for low‑income students. Senator Jonathan Sickler, sponsor of the bill, said the changes aim to improve workforce recruitment and increase access to higher education.
Sickler told the committee the Career Builders program has two components — scholarships and a loan‑repayment match — intended to steer students into identified…
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