CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        SENATE BILL 6770

                        56th Legislature

                      2000 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 12, 2000   YEAS 41   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House March 1, 2000   YEAS 97   NAYS 1

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  SENATE BILL 6770 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives	Secretary
Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Approved Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                         SENATE BILL 6770

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             Passed Legislature - 2000 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senators Kohl‑Welles, Sheahan and Costa; by request of State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

Read first time 01/26/2000.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Allowing exceptional faculty awards to be used for faculty development and in-service training.

    AN ACT Relating to the exceptional faculty awards program; and amending RCW 28B.50.841.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.50.841 and 1991 c 238 s 65 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The faculty awards are the property of the institution and may be named in honor of a donor, benefactor, or honoree of the institution, at the option of the institution.  The institution shall designate the use of the award to individuals, groups, or for the improvement of faculty as a whole.  The designation shall be made or renewed annually.

    (2) The institution is responsible for soliciting private donations, investing and maintaining its endowment funds, administering the faculty awards, and reporting on the program to the governor, the college board, and the legislature, upon request.  The institution may augment its endowment fund with additional unrestricted private donations.  The principal of the invested endowment fund shall not be invaded.

    (3) The proceeds from the endowment fund shall be used to pay expenses for faculty awards, which may include faculty development activities, in-service training, temporary substitute or replacement costs directly associated with faculty development programs, conferences, travel, publication and dissemination of exemplary projects; to supplement the salary of the holder or holders of a faculty award; or to pay expenses associated with the holder's program area.  Funds from this program shall not be used to supplant existing faculty development funds.

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