{"id":29772,"date":"2021-03-24T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29772"},"modified":"2021-03-24T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:07:37","slug":"in-state-tuition-for-americorps-participants-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=29772","title":{"rendered":"In-state tuition for AmeriCorps participants advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

Certain AmeriCorp participants would be eligible for in-state tuition at Nebraska higher education institutions under a bill advanced from general file March 23.

\"Sen.
Sen. Tony Vargas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Under LB197, as introduced by Omaha Sen. Tony Vargas, a student who completes a full term of service of at least one year in Nebraska as an AmeriCorps participant would be considered a resident for tuition purposes at Nebraska postsecondary educational institutions. <\/p>\n

When AmeriCorps volunteers complete their term of service, Vargas said, they receive an award to pay for postsecondary education. He said making those individuals eligible for in-state tuition would encourage more of them to study and later work in Nebraska. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be bringing those dollars to our local colleges and universities and … mak[ing] our state a destination spot for volunteers after their service is completed,\u201d Vargas said. <\/p>\n

Under an Education Committee amendment, adopted 33-0, a student who is qualified for an AmeriCorps award would be eligible for in-state tuition.<\/p>\n

Vargas said the amendment eliminates the requirement that AmeriCorps participants complete their terms of service in Nebraska, increasing the number of volunteers who would be eligible for in-state tuition.<\/p>\n

Sen. Mark Kolterman of Seward supported LB197, calling it a \u201cno-brainer\u201d that would benefit Nebraska\u2019s economy by encouraging young people to live here.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers voted 35-0 to advance the bill to select file. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Certain AmeriCorp participants would be eligible for in-state tuition at Nebraska higher education institutions under a bill advanced from general file March 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[184],"class_list":["post-29772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-sen-tony-vargas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29774,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29772\/revisions\/29774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}