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Senate approves SB132 to tighten New Century and Regent scholarship rules amid budget shortfall
Summary
Senate Bill 132 amends eligibility and disclosure requirements for New Century and Regent scholarships, capping awards and requiring applicants to be notified that awards are subject to legislative appropriation; senators said the New Century program faces an approximately $4 million shortfall next year. The bill passed 27-0 with two absent.
The Utah Senate on Day 25 passed Senate Bill 132, a package of changes to the New Century and Regent scholarship programs that tightens eligibility rules and requires explicit applicant disclosures that awards are subject to legislative appropriations.
Senator Valentine, the bill sponsor, told colleagues that the state faces budget pressure in higher education and that the New Century scholarship fund is "upside down in this scholarship fund by $4,000,000 in the next budget year" while the Regent scholarship faces about a $2,000,000…
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