Alabama Legislators Consider Tuition Plan Study

PHILLIP RAWLS

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama legislators unable to agree on a bailout for the state's prepaid college tuition plan may end up seeking a detailed study of the financial problems. But the program's leader says that's not enough.

"We need a cash infusion. A resolution to study it is not going to solve anything. Tuition has got to be paid," State Treasurer Kay Ivey said Monday.

Several bills were introduced in the Legislature's 2009 session to help the financially troubled program pay tuition for the 48,000 participants. But no bill has passed both houses of the Legislature. ...