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Committee sets Gillette at $6 million, Jackson at $750,000 in HB 11 compromise; NC STEM cut fails
Summary
The Joint & Standing committee on House Bill 11 debated several amendments to higher-education capital funding, rejected a motion to cut NC STEM research funding in half, and approved a compromise allocating $6,000,000 to the Gillette NC Center and $750,000 to Jackson Community College; language for the University of Wyoming was also reinstated.
The Joint & Standing committee reconvened to consider amendments to House Bill 11 (the CAPCOM bill) and adopted a compromise on two community-college allocations, the committee chair said.
At the start of the session the chair outlined outstanding items in the bill: a previously adopted language change, an agreed change addressing a parking-lot/green-space issue at the University of Wyoming, and two remaining projects—finishing a building in Jackson and funding the NC Center at Gillette.
Representative Groves raised procedural questions about the funding mechanism and then offered a compromise motion to set Gillette Community College’s NC Center allocation at…
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