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Committee backs expansion of foster-care scholarship, adds spending cap
Summary
The House Higher Education Committee voted to recommend a substitute for Senate Bill 85 that sets a per-student limit and clarifies how the foster care scholarship stacks with other aid; advocates representing current and former foster youth spoke in support.
The House Higher Education Committee on March -- voted to recommend a substitute to Senate Bill 85, a bill that creates a foster-care scholarship and adds guardrails on how the award may be used.
Supporters said the scholarship would help students who experienced foster care continue into postsecondary education and that the proposal is narrowly scaled in its early years. "We do support the bill as written, and are grateful that data will be collected," said Devin Rudy Johnson, who identified himself as speaking on behalf of a group of people with lived experience in foster care. "In fiscal year 24 to 25, there were only 98 students total utilizing ETV ...…
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