Missouri / State / 102nd General Assembly, 2nd Regular Session
Senate Bill 912 (2024) Replaced the National Guard tuition grant with a waiver that switches off if the state appropriation share falls
Expands and restricts Adds a tuition and fee waiver, but caps it at 120 hours, ends it in a year of falling state share and requires repayment.
Rewrote Mo. Rev. Stat. 173.239 to add a tuition and fee waiver at Missouri public institutions alongside the existing grant, not to be implemented before the 2025-26 academic year, capped at 120 completed credit hours counting hours earned without the benefit. Two conditions in the rewrite are unusual. Subsection 6 provides that the waiver "shall not be available in any fiscal year in which the percent of total program costs covered by the state appropriation for the educational assistance provided pursuant to this section has decreased compared to the previous fiscal year", so a single year of declining state share turns the waiver off for everyone while the grant survives. And subsection 7 requires a recipient who ceases active military affiliation while enrolled, for any reason except death, disability or medical disqualification, to repay amounts awarded or waived for that term. Tracked because a funding-contingent switch of this kind has no parallel elsewhere in this catalog and cannot be predicted from the eligibility criteria a member reads, and because published descriptions still give the older 39-hours-per-year and 150-lifetime-hour structure.
Progress
Path to law: Bill in a two-chamber legislature
- Introduced Done, Senate, prefiled
- In committee Done, Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Pensions, then House Veterans
- Passed one chamber Done, Senate
- Passed both chambers Done, Senate concurred in the House committee substitute
- Signed by the governor Done,
- In effect Done,
Sponsors
- Ben Brown
What it touches
- Mo. Rev. Stat. § 173.239
Catalog entry
Official record
Read Senate Bill 912 (2024) on the jurisdiction's own record