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Senate committee approves moving House Bill 79 to floor to raise community college tuition cap
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 79 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation. Sponsor James Petzke said the bill updates a tuition cap that has not been adjusted in code since 2008 and would allow community colleges limited, periodic tuition increases.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 79 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after a short presentation by the bill sponsor.
Representative James Petzke, R‑Meridian, told the committee the bill “is really just changing one number” in state law: the tuition‑rate cap that applies to community colleges. “This number has not been changed in code since I believe ’02/2008,” Petzke said, adding that community colleges reached the cap around 2016 and “since that time, they have not been able to adjust their tuition at all to account for inflationary increases in their costs.”
Why it matters: Petzke said the change would allow…
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