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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1097

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Orr, Wood, Jacobsen, Nealey, Anderson, Prince, Kremen, Day, Rasmussen, Sheldon, Scott, Prentice, Dellwo, R. King, Winsley, Ferguson, Wineberry, Broback, Edmondson, Paris, Jones, Wynne, Chandler, Miller and Tate).

Read first time February 28, 1991.  Waiving tuition and fees for national guard members.

     AN ACT Relating to tuition and fee waivers; and amending RCW 28B.15.535.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.535 and 1985 c 390 s 28 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) The boards of regents of the state universities and the boards of trustees of regional universities, The Evergreen State College, and community colleges may waive the tuition and services and activities fees for full-time employees of their respective institutions of higher education and for members of the Washington national guard enrolled in said institutions' courses on a space available basis pursuant to the following conditions:

     (a) Employees of the institutions and members of the Washington national guard shall register for and be enrolled in courses on a space available basis, and no new course sections shall be created as a direct result of such registration;

     (b) Enrollment information on employees and on members of the Washington national guard registered on a space available basis shall be maintained separately from other enrollment information and shall not be included in official enrollment reports, nor shall persons enrolled pursuant to the provisions of this section be considered in any enrollment statistics which would affect budgetary determinations;

     (c) Employees of the institutions and members of the Washington national guard registering on a space available basis shall be charged a registration fee ((of not less than five dollars)) that will fully cover institutional costs of administering the student's enrollment.

     (2) The governing boards of the respective colleges and universities may waive tuition and services and activities fees for full-time intercollegiate center for nursing education, cooperative extension service, and agricultural research employees of Washington State University for such employees stationed off the Pullman, Whitman county campus:  PROVIDED, That such waiver complies with the conditions spelled out in subsection (1) (a), (b), and (c) ((above)) of this section.

     (3) The boards of regents of the state universities, the boards of trustees of the regional universities and The Evergreen State College, and the state board for community college education with respect to community colleges, shall adopt guidelines for the implementation of employee and Washington national guard waivers granted pursuant to this section.

(4) No waivers shall be granted for members of the Washington national guard after June 30, 1996.