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Senate Education Committee advances bill to update 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 raises the statutory tuition cap community colleges have been unable to exceed since about 2016.
The Senate Education Committee voted to send House Bill 79 to the Senate floor with a due-pass recommendation after Representative James Petske (R.-Dist. 21) said the measure updates a long-unchanged cap on community-college tuition.
Representative James Petske told the committee the bill is "essentially changing one number" in state code and includes minor editorial fixes. "This number is the tuition rate cap that applies to our community colleges," he said, and he said the cap has not been adjusted since 2008 and…
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