Senate Minority Leader Stuart Ingle on March 14, 2011

For Immediate Release Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Contact: 505-986-4702
FREEZE TUITION NOW SO FUTURE STUDENTS ARE NOT LEFT OUT IN THE COLD

SB 292 Limit Tuition Increase for Lottery Recipients
Senator Stuart Ingle

Santa Fe—The New Mexico State Senate passed a bill to freeze tuition costs for the Legislative Lottery Fund at the rate when a student first qualifies for the free tuition program. The tuition cost for the program would be frozen throughout the remainder of the student’s eligible semesters, with the tuition still free for the student.

Senate Minority Leader Stuart Ingle is sponsoring SB 292- Limit Tuition Increase for Lottery Recipients- in an effort to preserve the Lottery Scholarship Fund as long as possible because it is projected to run out of money by the year 2014 if tuition costs continue to increase and if changes are not made.