Silver State Opportunity Grant
What they say
His campaign says that as Senate majority leader he sponsored the bill that created the Silver State Opportunity Grant, a college grant for low-income students.
“As state senate majority leader, Ford sponsored the bill to create the Silver State Opportunity Grant”
Source: Committee to Elect Aaron Ford
What the record shows ·
Senate Bill 227 created the grant in 2015. Its sponsors were Senators Kieckhefer, Kihuen, Harris and Woodhouse. Ford voted for it but was not a sponsor. He was minority leader that session.
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Limit: In 2017, as majority leader, he was a lead sponsor of SB 391, which created a different community college scholarship, the Nevada Promise Scholarship. Two 2017 bills on the Silver State grant were filed by others and did not pass.