BILL · 2013–14 SESSION

SB 5420: Tuition/two-year freeze

Creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at four-year institutions of higher education.

Summary

  • Freezes tuition increases for resident undergraduate students for the 2013-2015 biennium, provided that no less than two hundred twenty-five million dollars is appropriated and proportionally divided among the six public baccalaureate institutions of higher education.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 29, 2013
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Jeanne Kohl-Welles (D-36)
Introduced
January 29, 2013 in the Senate
Last action
January 13, 2014

AN ACT Relating to creating a two-year freeze on tuition rates at four-year institutions of higher education;

Sponsors

Votes

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

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. And refer to Ways & Means.
  4. HIE - Majority; without recommendation.
  5. Referred to Ways & Means.
  6. First reading, referred to Higher Education.

SB 5420 in other sessions

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