BLINN “RIDER” ATTACHED TO HOUSE SPENDING BILL

  

A rider attached to the Texas House appropriations bill has passed—that rider could mean more money for Blinn College’s Bryan campuses.

Bryan State Representative John Raney attached the rider to the appropriations bill after he’d previously filed House Bill 1903, which would require Blinn to base campus allocations on student contact hours.

Since Blinn’s campus in Bryan has significantly more students than the college’s other three campuses, the bulk of state funding would go there.

Raney’s appropriations bill rider would have the same effect as HB 1903.

Under Rainey’s rider Blinn College would be forced to allocate “a proportional share of appropriated funds in each year of the biennium to each campus of Blinn College with an enrollment of 1,000 students or more based on each campus’ proportional share of total contact hours.”

District-13 State. Rep. Leighton Schubert filed an amendment to remove the rider from the appropriations bill, but—according to Schubert’s office--the rider passed the house vote.

Raney sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, and filed the rider before a hearing last week before the Higher Education Committee on HB 1903.

The House and Senate will pass separate spending bills—then a joint will hammer a final spending plan.

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