| HB 1003 (HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING)<\/td> | Higher Ed funding, included increases for need-based and merit-based aid<\/td> | Passed House 69-23; now in Senate Appropriations, hearings week of 3\/23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| HB 1303 (TUITION RATES)<\/td> | Would allow the Legislature to set tuition for all North Dakota University System institutions<\/td> | Passed 59 to 31 in the House, now in Senate Education Cmte.; defeated in Senate \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| HB 1044 (GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS, SLDS)<\/td> | Would increase ND Acad\/Career & Technical Merit Scholarships from $1500 \/yr. to $2000\/yr. and need-based ND State Grant by 4%\/yr.; would require that the ND State Longitudinal Data System be used to compile college graduation rates for students who received the ND Acad\/Career & Technical Merit Scholarships<\/td> | Provisions of this bill okayed by House and will be put into the Higher Ed. funding bill HB 1003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| SB 2288 (GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS)\t<\/td> | Relates to development & operation of a \"gap scholarship\" through collaboration of NDUS & Bank of ND. It is designed to give more relief to middle income families by reducing student need after federal and state aid has been subtracted. ($5 M appropriation )\t<\/td> | Passed in Senate by a vote of 44 to 2; defeated in the House \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| SCR 4003 ( GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS) <\/td> | An amendment to ND Constitution allowing Foundation Aid Stabilization Fund to be used for higher ed scholarships<\/td> | Passed Senate 46-0; now in House Judiciary Cmte, hearing 3\/25; if passed in House will be voted on by people in June 2016. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| SB 2039 (GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS)<\/td> | Adds higher education scholarships as one of the allowable uses for the Foundation Aid Stabilization Fund ( Companion bill to SCR 4003)<\/td> | Passed Senate 46-0; now in House Appropriations; hearing 3\/16<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| HB 1129 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT) <\/td> | Workforce Development grants for Tribal colleges<\/td> | Passed House and Senate; signed into law<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| HB 1049 (LOAN FORGIVENESS)\t<\/td> | Education loan forgiveness for certain behavioral health professionals on loans through the Bank of North Dakota and other participating lenders. ($200 K appropriation )\t<\/td> | Amended and passed in House 85-0; now in Senate Human Services \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
| SCR 4014 (LEGACY FUND)<\/td> | A concurrent resolution calling for an interim study committee to study reinvestment scenarios and potential priorities for Legacy Fund earnings<\/td> | Adopted by Senate; Adopted by House and returned to Senate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legislative Update for March 29th, 2015 HB 1003 (HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING)Higher Ed funding, included increases for need-based and merit-based aidPassed House 69-23; now in Senate Appropriations, hearings week of 3\/23 HB 1303 (TUITION RATES)Would allow the Legislature to set tuition...","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspireonline.org\/northdakota\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |