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Committee deadlocks on bill limiting state aid to noncitizens after tie vote
Summary
The Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee debated HF1323, which would exclude certain noncitizens from state student aid; lawmakers and Office of Higher Education officials argued over scope, fiscal notes and impacts on victims with pending immigration relief. The referral motion tied 7–7 and the bill was laid over.
The Minnesota House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee debated House File 1323, a bill from Representative Schultz that would restrict eligibility for specified state student aid programs to U.S. citizens and certain lawfully present noncitizens, but a committee vote to send the bill forward ended in a 7–7 tie and the bill was laid over.
Representative Schultz told the committee the bill ‘‘seeks to add eligibility requirements to ensure that Minnesota kids who have legal status here have more money for the state grant program and for the North Star Promise program.’’ He moved two technical amendments; the A1 amendment, which updated dates in the bill, was adopted without objection. The A2 amendment—intended to align the bill text with an updated fiscal note and to narrow the…
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