JEFFERSON CITY — A senator has filed a bill to address the problem with fake degrees that higher ed reporter Kavita Kumar wrote about in December.
Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee’s Summit sponsored a bill that would make it a class C misdemeanor to use or attempt to use a false diploma.
The Senate Education Committee has heard the bill, and could vote on it as early as next week.
Bartle said in the committee that the bill would not address “diploma mills” that offer a degree for nothing more than money.