The Florida House of Representatives is likely to kill a bill that would overhaul governance of the state’s university system and give the sole tuition-setting power to the Legislature, The Tampa Tribune reported today. The legislative session ends on Friday, and the measure faces long odds in the House, despite sailing through the Senate earlier this year.

The legislation was an attempt to scrap the state’s Board of Governors, which was created by a 2002 state constitutional amendment to oversee Florida’s 11 public universities. But last year the board ran afoul of lawmakers, by joining a lawsuit to gain control of tuition rates. The suit was dismissed in February, but the Legislature sought to gut the board in favor of a more-limited policy-making group and an elected state education commissioner. —Eric Kelderman