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Higher Education panel hears bill to create law enforcement last-dollar scholarship, lays it over
Summary
The Minnesota House Higher Education Committee heard testimony on House File 2454, the Minnesota Law Enforcement Scholarship Act, which would create a last-dollar scholarship for police officers and their dependents; committee members laid the bill over for further work and fiscal review.
Representative Matt Wolgamott, the bill's chief author, presented House File 2454, the Minnesota Law Enforcement Scholarship Act, to the House Higher Education Committee and asked the panel to lay the bill over for further work and a fiscal note. The proposal would establish a last-dollar scholarship for licensed police officers and their dependents to pursue criminal justice or law-enforcement-related degrees at Minnesota State institutions and the University of Minnesota.
The bill’s sponsor said Minnesota faces a law enforcement recruitment and retention challenge and argued scholarships are a tool to help. "Right now, there are over a thousand open positions in law enforcement that are vacant waiting to be filled," Representative Matt Wolgamott said, adding that roughly 2,700 officers are reaching retirement age and that…
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