Substitute for S.B. No. 5
Session Year 2025
 


AN ACT CONCERNING HIGHER EDUCATION AFFORDABILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

To require (1) need-based grants under the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program to be equal to four thousand five hundred dollars per student, and (2) the Office of Higher Education to disburse grants under the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program not later than the academic semester preceding the academic semester in which such grants are to be awarded to eligible students.

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Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee

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Bill History

 Date Action Taken
 3/20/2025(LCO)File Number 164
 3/20/2025Senate Calendar Number 128
 3/20/2025Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
 3/20/2025(LCO)Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
 3/14/2025(LCO)Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/19/25 5:00 PM
 3/5/2025(LCO)Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
 2/27/2025(HED)Joint Favorable Substitute
 2/14/2025Public Hearing 02/20
 2/13/2025Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement
 2/11/2025Drafted by Committee
 1/16/2025(HED)Vote to Draft
 1/8/2025Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement

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