to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4304.
Representative Price moved to adopt substitute (H-1) to HB 4304. The motion prevailed 25-0-3: FAVORABLE ROLL CALL Yeas: Reps. Witwer, O'Neal, Brixie, Hood, Brabec, Morse, Steckloff, Weiss, Martus, McKinney, Mentzer, Morgan, Price, Skaggs, Snyder, Wilson, Lightner, Bollin, Green, Slagh, Beson, Borton, Cavitt, DeBoer, Schuette. Nays: None. Pass: Reps. Fink, Kuhn, Steele. Representative Kuhn offered the following amendments to HB 4304: 1. Amend page 27, following line 17, by inserting: "(5) Public universities that exceed the tuition and fee rate cap described in subsection (2) are not eligible to receive payments under section 236 for operations increase and per-student floor funding for fiscal year 2023-2024. (6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, the legislature may at any time adjust appropriations for a public university that adopts an increase in tuition and fee rates for resident undergraduate students that exceeds the rate cap established in subsection (2).". 2. Amend page 25, following line 5, by inserting: "(4) Appropriations to public universities in section 236 for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 for operations funding must be reduced by 10%, pursuant to the procedures described in subdivision (a) for a public that fails to submit certification described in subsection (2) to the state budget director, the house and senate appropriation subcommittees on higher education, and the house and senate fiscal agencies by October 1, 2023. (a) If a public university fails to submit certification, the state budget director shall withhold 10% of that public university's annual operations funding until the public university submits certification. If a public university fails to submit certification by the end of the fiscal year, the 10% of its annual operations funding that is withheld must lapse to the general fund.".