Introduced
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To provide a template or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Higher Education budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
To require officials at state universities to deliver quarterly sexual misconduct reports to the president and governing board members.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To prohibit universities from doing experiments on dogs that hurt.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the Senate 36 to 0 (details)
The Senate version of the higher education budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2018. This would appropriate $1.680 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.629 billion the previous year. $119 million of this is federal money.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that contains no appropriations except a few $100 "placeholders" on some line items.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 106 to 2 (details)
To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations, leaving it as a "template" or "placeholder." This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets. The House has actually passed its version of the full budget in two "omnibus" bills, House Bills 5578 and 5579.
Failed in the Senate 0 to 37 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
