Key Votes
HB 224 - Repeal of Exemptions from Nonresident Tuition - Key Vote
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Legislation - Motion Rejected (House) (36-38) - Jan. 31, 2007 (Key vote)
Title: Repeal of Exemptions from Nonresident Tuition
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that ends tuition breaks for undocumented immigrants.
Highlights:
- Allows legal immigrant students graduating from Utah high schools after attending for three or more years or receiving the equivalent of a high school diploma in Utah to pay only resident tuition while attending Utah institutions of higher education if they register between the fall 2002-03 academic year and May 1, 2007 [sec.1 (1)(a-c(i)(ii))].
- Allows students entering Utah higher education institutions before May 1, 2007 to receive the non-resident tuition exemption established in Utah statute 53B-8-106 for as long as the student is enrolled in a degree or certificate program [sec. (5)].
Note:
NOTE: THIS VOTE RECONSIDERS A PREVIOUS VOTE.
Legislation - Bill Failed (House) (37-37) - Jan. 30, 2007
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Nov. 15, 2006
Title: Repeal of Exemptions from Nonresident Tuition
Sponsors
- Glenn A. Donnelson Jr. (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Sylvia S. Andersen (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Craig A. Frank (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Keith Grover (UT - R)
- Christopher Niles Herrod (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Michael T. 'Mike' Morley (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Curtis M. Oda (UT - R)
- Stephen Eric Sandstrom (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Kenneth W. Sumsion (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Carl D. Wimmer (UT - R) (Out Of Office)
