2025 Regular SessionConnecticut Legislature

SB00005: An Act Concerning Higher Education Affordability And Accountability.

Legislative Summary

To require (1) need-based grants under the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program to be equal to four thousand five hundred dollars per student, and (2) the Office of Higher Education to disburse grants under the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program not later than the academic semester preceding the academic semester in which such grants are to be awarded to eligible students.

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Bill History

1/8/2025
Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement
Senate
1/16/2025
Vote to Draft
Senate
2/11/2025
Drafted by Committee
Senate
2/13/2025
Referred to Joint Committee on Higher Education and Employment Advancement
Senate
2/14/2025
Public Hearing 02/20
Senate
2/27/2025
Joint Favorable Substitute
Senate
3/5/2025
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
Senate
3/14/2025
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/19/25 5:00 PM
Senate
3/20/2025
Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
Senate
3/20/2025
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
Senate
3/20/2025
Senate Calendar Number 128
Senate
3/20/2025
File Number 164
Senate

Roll Call Votes

HED Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable Substitute)
2/27/2025
18
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
HED Vote Tally Sheet (Vote to Draft)
1/16/2025
0
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED