Higher Ed Subcommittee

Of the appropriations meeting. We're going to begin by dealing with several bills that are on our docket. After we have the roll. Thank you. Go into the board. We have a quorum seven present. Thank you. Our analyst, Mr. Baggio, will talk us through the bills. Madam Chair, the first bill is House Bill 882. This is Delegate Sullivan. Oh, thank you. The first bill is House Bill 882. This is Delegate Sullivan's bill. Patron is here. Thank you. Madam Chair, good to see you. Good morning, members of the committee. So 882, Madam Chair, deals with the Innovative Internship Fund and program which already exists and has been very successful in supporting both higher education institutions and employers, private employers, in growing and expanding internship opportunities here in the Commonwealth. The program both provides direct to institution grants to support internship development and provides matching grants directly to employers to support paid internships opportunities. And it's split now between Chev and vedp. There has been some ambiguity and indeed some direct denials dealing with whether local government can be involved both with the institutional grants or the employer Matching Grant fund program. And the bill is based on…