College system-supported bills moving as session passes last committee cutoff

April 7, 2023 | By SBCTC Communications

Tuesday marked the last committee cutoff of the 2023 legislative session when bills with a fiscal impact needed to be voted out of those committees in order to continue in the legislative process. For the community and technical college system, bills on Running Start, nursing education, data shar...

House budget proposals released

March 31, 2023 | By SBCTC Communications

House budget writers on Monday released their versions of the operating and capital budgets. The House Appropriations Committee heard testimony on the operating budget proposal on Monday, and the House Capital Budget Committee took up that budget on Tuesday.

Hearings resume as session passes major cutoff deadline

March 10, 2023 | By SBCTC Communications

The House and Senate passed a critical deadline Wednesday as bills — unless necessary for the budget — originating in their chamber had to be voted out to continue in the legislative process. Moving this week were bills on student basic needs, dual credit, data sharing, nursing and corrections ed...

Dual credit, basic needs bills on the docket ahead of today's fiscal committee cutoff

February 24, 2023 | By SBCTC Communications

House and Senate fiscal committee hearings were long this week but testimony was short as committee members worked to hear and vote on bills ahead of today's fiscal committee cutoff deadline. Following the Feb. 17 policy committee cutoff, the budget-related committees had just this week to comple...

Session reaches first cutoff, committees hear nursing bachelor's degree, credential transparency bills

February 17, 2023 | By SBCTC Communications

The Legislature reaches its first cutoff deadline today. Bills, unless needed to implement a budget, must be voted out of House and Senate policy committees in order to continue in the 2023 legislative process.