MSU calls proposed budget punishment - Ian Kullgren, State News

University officials are warning of possible tuition increases next year after House Republicans turned up the heat in the battle over MSU’s health care mandate, adding a provision in the earliest stages of the budget process that threatens to strip funding. State Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant, did not let go of efforts to repeal MSU’s health care mandate after a hearing in February between administrators and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education ended in disagreement. After the meeting, he said the committee would look for other options to get the mandate removed. Friday, Cotter and the rest of the committee followed through, passing an addition to Gov. Rick Snyder’s budget proposal that would require MSU to scrap its policy requiring all students to carry a health care plan or face funding cuts from the state.