With the March 9 bill-filing deadline just a week away, state Sen. Joyce Elliott, D-Little Rock, says she is still considering filing a bill to offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants.

“I’m still trying to be very thoughtful about it and do a lot of research,” she said today. “I am pretty much complete with getting that done. I’ll make a decision about what to do about it sometime in the next few days — because I have to.”

A 2005 bill by Elliott, then a state representative, that would have extended in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants, was defeated in the Senate after passing in the House. Gov. Mike Beebe has said he will oppose any such measure.

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