House committee passes Access Missouri bill to avoid conflict with Senate
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House committee passes Access Missouri bill to avoid conflict with Senate

Date: April 6, 2010
By: Allie Spillyards
State Capitol Bureau
Links: HB1812

Intro:  The House Committee on Higher Education backed off eliminating financial advantages for private school students.
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OutCue:  SOC

Wrap: The House Committee on Higher Education passed an amendment to an Access Missouri bill that standardizes the amount of need based funding for private and public school students.

This was in response to the House Rules Committee's rejection of the previous bill.

Committee chairman Gayle Kingery said he didn't want to make a change that would kill the bill in the Senate.

Actuality:  KINGERY2.WAV
Run Time:  00:10
Description: "We have so many different needs and wants, that by the time you pull something together you have to do a lot of compromising just to get something to work with. And that's basically what this is."
 
The committee voted unanimously to pass the substitute bill.
 
The bill will now go back to the House Rules Committee.

Reporting from the State Capitol, I'm Allie Spillyards.

Intro:  State scholarship funding for university students is closer to being the same for both public and private school students.
RunTime:  0:41
OutCue:  SOC

Wrap: The House Committee on Higher Education backed off eliminating financial advantages for private school students.

The committee made clear that the bill is based on appropriations and simply sets limits on financial awards.

Representative Gayle Kingery, the committee head, said he was eager to get the bill passed even if it isn't perfect.

Actuality:  KINGERY1.WAV
Run Time:  00:11
Description: "If we can get it from where it's supposed to be, 95, up to 150 million, then we can give all of our students, need-based students that want to go to school in the state of Missouri, a pretty good stipend to go. And that's our goal."
 
A proposed amendment to phase in the financial change failed, but the committee passed the substitute bill unanimously.

Reporting from the State Capitol, I'm Allie Spillyards.