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Senate Education Committee lays Hathaway Scholarship amendment bill back for clarifications
Summary
The committee laid House Bill 36 back after the Department of Education said it could not implement the bill as written; the measure would expand the Hathaway Scholarship definition to cover certain long‑term vocational certificates that combine low‑credit coursework and on‑the‑job training.
The Senate Education Committee on Feb. 20 laid House Bill 36 back for further work after department staff said the bill, as written, would create implementation challenges for the Hathaway Scholarship.
Representative Dan (last name not specified in transcript) Harshman introduced the bill and described a constituent case in which a student at Central Wyoming College was pursuing an electrician certificate. Harshman said many construction‑trade certificates require extensive on‑the‑job training and only limited credit hours per semester over several years, which the existing Hathaway Scholarship framework did not clearly accommodate.
Harshman said the bill…
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