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Committee narrows student-conduct bill; HOPE suspension reduced to next semester and limited to criminal convictions
Summary
A substitute to House Bill 602 was amended to raise the bar for when a student loses state scholarship eligibility: the bill now applies only after a criminal conviction for materially and substantially disruptive conduct and limits the loss of assistance to the subsequent semester or quarter.
A House committee advanced a rewritten House Bill 602 that would make students convicted of certain criminal offenses on campus temporarily ineligible for state scholarship assistance, but the committee narrowed the bill and reduced the proposed penalty.
Under the substitute (LC610214S) presented to the committee, loss of scholarship eligibility would apply only when a student is convicted of a criminal offense that also is a "materially and substantially disruptive" act as defined in the bill. The substitute removed language that would have allowed campus conduct-review determinations or time/place/manner campus rules to trigger the sanction and shortened the penalty:…
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