Issue Position: Higher Education
Issue Position
Issues: Higher Education
The Legislature increased funding by 7.5 percent, providing an additional $1.5 billion from the current two-year funding period for colleges and universities. In addition, $40 million was put into the Governor's University Research Initiative, a new fund created to attract top researchers to public universities.
House Bill 100 authorized $3.1 billion in capital construction bonds for public institutions of higher education which included projects at all Lamar campuses in Southeast Texas.
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