BILL · 2007–08 SESSION

HB 1385: Higher education

Implementing a strategic direction for higher education.

Summary

Establishes the Legislature's statewide plan for higher education, which includes increasing capacity by 30,000 enrollments, awarding 3,800 additional baccalaureate degrees annually, adding 12,500 additional enrollments in high demand fields, and increasing the state's overall investment in higher education by $460 million per biennium.
Provides that by 2014, tuition and mandatory fees for full-time resident undergraduates will be equal to the average tuition and fees charged at peer institutions nationally.
Reforms the State Need Grant program to provide that a student's cost of attendance at a public institution shall not be more than 30 percent of family income.
Requires public institutions of higher education to enter into six-year performance contracts with the state.

From the House Bill Analysis 2007 (HB 1385), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to implementing a strategic direction for higher education by the year 2014;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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