'Dreamers' tuition proposal likely dead
A bid to legally create a special community college and university tuition for “dreamers” and others who don’t qualify for the in-state rate has run headlong into a potentially fatal snag.
House Speaker Rusty Bowers told Capitol Media Services on Friday he will not allow the proposal by Sen. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, to be heard in his chamber. The Mesa Republican said there are too many logistical, political – and he believes legal – problems with the plan to even allow it to be debated.
The decision comes despite the fact that the bill cleared the Republican-controlled Senate last month on an 18-12 margin.
But the fact remains that only four of the Senate 17 Republicans supported the measure. And Bowers said that there are enough GOP lawmakers in the House who do not like the idea to convince him to pull the plug.
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