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Change eligibility requirements for community college gap assistance

Sponsored By: Robert Dover

Signed by Governor

Education Committee

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.

Community college gap aid covers full costs

The committee can give gap assistance up to your full eligible costs for an eligible program. There is no dollar cap in the law. The committee decides the award amount.

New proof rules to get gap aid

Applicants must show four things to qualify. You must show you can be accepted to and finish an eligible program. You must show you can be accepted into and finish a for-credit certificate, diploma, or degree. You must show you can get full-time work and keep full-time work over time. The college or committee judges the proof. The law sets no standard tests or timelines.

Other aid can block gap help, SNAP E&T excluded

If your total eligible cost is already covered by other public or private aid, the committee denies gap assistance. The school’s decision on that coverage controls the denial. The committee cannot count SNAP Employment and Training benefits as other funding when it checks this. It uses the federal SNAP E&T rule as it stood on January 1, 2026.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Robert Dover

    legislature

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 90 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/10/2026

Final Reading

Yes: 49 • No: 0

legislature vote • 3/30/2026

Vote

Yes: 41 • No: 0 • Other: 8

Actions Timeline

  1. Presented to Governor on April 10, 2026

    4/17/2026legislature

  2. Approved by Governor on April 14, 2026

    4/17/2026legislature

  3. Passed on Final Reading with Emergency Clause 49-0-0

    4/10/2026legislature

  4. President/Speaker signed

    4/10/2026legislature

  5. Placed on Final Reading with ST88

    4/7/2026legislature

  6. Enrollment and Review ST88 filed

    4/7/2026legislature

  7. Enrollment and Review ST88 recorded

    4/7/2026legislature

  8. Enrollment and Review ER172 adopted

    4/2/2026legislature

  9. Kauth FA745 withdrawn

    4/2/2026legislature

  10. Advanced to Enrollment and Review for Engrossment

    4/2/2026legislature

  11. Placed on Select File with ER172

    4/1/2026legislature

  12. Enrollment and Review ER172 filed

    4/1/2026legislature

  13. Advanced to Enrollment and Review Initial

    3/30/2026legislature

  14. Placed on General File

    2/24/2026legislature

  15. Speaker priority bill

    2/20/2026legislature

  16. Notice of hearing for February 09, 2026

    1/30/2026legislature

  17. Referred to Education Committee

    1/20/2026legislature

  18. Kauth FA745 filed

    1/16/2026legislature

  19. Date of introduction

    1/15/2026legislature

Bill Text

  • Introduced

    4/17/2026

    PDF

  • Enrolled / Slip Law

    PDF

  • Final / Enacted

    PDF

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