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Senate adopts wide-ranging appropriations conference reports after debate over higher‑education funding and state IT plans
Summary
The Missouri Senate approved multiple conference committee reports on appropriations (House Bills 2003–2013), advancing budgets for higher education, transportation, public safety, social services and several agency programs after floor debate over a higher‑education funding model, IT modernization language and targeted program funding.
The Missouri Senate on the floor adopted a package of conference committee reports for a series of appropriations bills that together fund higher education, transportation, public safety, social services and other state programs.
Senator from Livingston, the conference sponsor, told the chamber, “Within this bill 2,003 is higher education workforce development,” and moved adoption of the conference committee report for House Bill 2003. Senators debated a provision directing the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development to develop a funding model "that shall apply to all public 2‑year and 4‑year institutions receiving state appropriations," with concerns about how members of the General Assembly would be selected to consult on the model. Senator from Green warned the language could amount to…
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