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Senate committee hears bill to let campuses bank capital funds, ease matches for smaller institutions
Summary
Senate Bill 2212 would let public campuses save tiered capital funds across biennia and reduce matching requirements for smaller institutions; testimony emphasized deferred-maintenance needs, differing campus capacities to raise local match and a proposed increase in tier funding.
Senator Jonathan Sickler, District 17 of Grand Forks, told the Senate Appropriations — Education and Environment Division that Senate Bill 2212 would allow public higher-education campuses to bank capital building funds across biennia and alter matching requirements to reflect institutional capacity.
Sickler said the bill would change the current “use it or lose it” approach under tiers 2 and 3 so campuses could save and plan for larger capital and remodeling projects over multiple biennia. “The idea is to help make this a more, say, more organized process, perhaps, or maybe a more thoughtful process in terms of giving campuses the ability to look ahead more than just a couple years,” Senator Sickler said during the hearing.
Why it matters: supporters said the change would help campuses plan and address long‑term deferred maintenance rather than repeatedly asking the Legislature for discrete projects. Witnesses from the university system…
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