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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1094

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State of Washington              53rd Legislature             1993 Regular Session

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Orr, Jacobsen, Brumsickle, Rayburn, J. Kohl, Brough, Van Luven, Karahalios, Kessler, Silver, Quall, Miller and Springer)

Read first time 03/03/93.

Allowing institutions of higher education to cosponsor educational programs with a nonprofit organization.

     AN ACT Relating to class availability at institutions of higher education; amending RCW 82.04.170; and adding a new section to chapter 28B.10 RCW.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.10 RCW to read as follows:

     Institutions of higher education may cosponsor educational programs with a nonprofit organization, as defined by the internal revenue code Sec. 501(c)(3), to ensure that courses are offered in a sequence.

     Sec. 2.  RCW 82.04.170 and 1992 c 206 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     "Tuition fee" includes library, laboratory, health service and other special fees, and amounts charged for room and board by an educational institution when the property or service for which such charges are made is furnished exclusively to the students or faculty of such institution.  "Educational institution," as used in this section, means only those institutions created or generally accredited as such by the state and includes educational programs that such educational institution cosponsors with a nonprofit organization, as defined by the internal revenue code Sec. 501(c)(3), if such educational institution may grant college credit for any coursework completed through the educational program, or defined as a degree granting institution under RCW 28B.85.010(3) and accredited by an accrediting association recognized by the United States secretary of education, and offering to students an educational program of a general academic nature or those institutions which are not operated for profit and which are privately endowed under a deed of trust to offer instruction in trade, industry, and agriculture, but not including specialty schools, business colleges, other trade schools, or similar institutions.

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