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Senate panel advances Hathaway Scholarship amendment to cover long apprenticeships
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to pass House Bill 36 as amended to let the Department of Education and the Community College Commission write rules so Hathaway scholarship eligibility can account for multi‑year on‑the‑job apprenticeship programs that enroll students for fewer than six credit hours per semester.
The Senate Education Committee voted 4–0 (one excused) to pass House Bill 36, the Hathaway Scholarship Amendments, as amended, after testimony from the bill sponsor, Department of Education staff and representatives of community colleges.
The bill, sponsored in the House by Representative Lloyd Harshman and introduced in committee by Representative Harshman and discussed before the Senate Education Committee, would allow the Wyoming Department of Education and the Wyoming Community College Commission to adopt rules to treat longer-duration, graded on‑the‑job training programs — such as multi‑year electrical apprenticeship programs at Central Wyoming College — as eligible for Hathaway scholarship support even though individual semesters have fewer than the…
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