AN ACT Relating to higher education; amending RCW 28B.15.031, 28B.15.041, and 28B.15.100; and adding new sections to chapter 28B.15 RCW.

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

Sec. 1. Section 2, chapter 279, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. as last amended by section 12, chapter 37, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.031 are each amended to read as follows:

The term "operating fees" as used in this chapter shall include the fees, other than general tuition and general tuition surcharge fees, charged all students registering at the state's colleges and universities but shall not include fees for short courses, self-supporting degree credit programs and courses, marine station work, experimental station work, correspondence or extension courses, and individual instruction and student deposits or rentals, disciplinary and library fines, which colleges and universities shall have the right to impose, laboratory, gymnasium, health, and student activity fees, or fees, charges, rentals, and other income derived from any or all revenue producing lands, buildings and facilities of the colleges or universities heretofore or hereafter acquired, constructed or installed, including but not limited to income from rooms, dormitories, dining rooms, hospitals, infirmaries, housing or student activity buildings, vehicular parking facilities, land, or the appurtenances thereon, or such other special fees as may be established by any college or university board of trustees or regents from time to time. All moneys received as operating fees at any institution of higher education shall be transmitted to the state treasurer within thirty-five days of receipt to be deposited in the state general fund: PROVIDED, That two and one-half percent of moneys received as operating fees be exempt from such deposit and be retained by the institutions for the purposes of RCW 28B.15.820.

Sec. 2. Section 35, chapter 169, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.041 are each amended to read as follows:

The term "services and activities fees" as used in this chapter is defined to mean fees, other than general tuition, general tuition surcharge, and operating fees, charged to all students registering at the state's community colleges, regional universities, The Evergreen State College, and state universities. Services and activities fees shall be used as otherwise provided by law or by rule or regulation of the board of trustees or regents of each of the state's community colleges, The Evergreen State College, the regional universities, or the state universities for the express purpose of funding student activities and programs of their particular institution. Student activity fees, student use fees, student building use fees, special student fees, or other similar fees charged to all full time students, or to all students, as the case may be, registering at the state's colleges or universities and pledged for the payment of bonds heretofore or hereafter issued for, or other indebtedness incurred to pay, all or part of the cost of acquiring, constructing or installing any lands, buildings, or facilities of the nature described in RCW 28B.10.300 as now or hereafter amended, shall be included within and deemed to be services and activities fees.

Sec. 3. Section 28B.15.100, chapter 223, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 11, chapter 37, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.100 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) The board of regents or board of trustees at each of the state's regional and state universities and at The Evergreen State College shall charge to and collect from each of the students registering at the particular institution for any quarter or semester such general tuition fees, operating fees, services and activities fees, and other fees as such board shall in its discretion determine, the total of all such fees, the general tuition fee, operating fee, and services and activities fee, to be rounded-out to the nearest whole dollar amount: PROVIDED, That such general tuition fees and operating fees for other than summer session quarters or semesters shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the fees charged by boards of trustees of community college districts shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended.

(2) General tuition surcharge fees shall be collected in addition to the fees provided in subsection (1) of this section.

(3) Part time students shall be charged ((~~general tuition, operating, and services and activities~~)) such fees proportionate to full time student rates established for residents and nonresidents: PROVIDED, That students registered for fewer than two credit hours shall be charged general tuition, operating, and services and activities fees at the rate established for two credit hours: PROVIDED FURTHER,That residents of Idaho or Oregon who are enrolled in community college district number twenty for six or fewer credits during any quarter or semester may be allowed to enroll at resident tuition and fee rates upon a declaration by the council for postsecondary education that it finds Washington residents from such community college district are afforded substantially equivalent treatment by such other states or that, until June 30, 1983, it is in the interest of the residents of such community college district to authorize the exchange of educational opportunities between Washington and other such states on a resident tuition and fee basis.

((~~(3)~~)) (4) Full-time students registered for more than eighteen credit hours shall be charged an additional operating fee for each credit hour in excess of eighteen hours at the established per credit hour general tuition and operating fee rate applicable to part-time students in the respective institutional tuition and fee rate categories set forth in this chapter: PROVIDED, That the boards of regents of the University of Washington and Washington State University may exempt students who are registered exclusively in first professional programs in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine and law: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the state board for community college education may exempt students who are registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs from the additional charge.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. A new section is added to chapter 28B.15 RCW to read as follows:

The term "general tuition surcharge fees" as used in this chapter shall mean a surcharge of twenty dollars a quarter or thirty dollars a semester which shall be charged students registering at any institution of higher education. The money received as general tuition surcharge fees at any institution of higher education shall be transmitted to the state treasurer within thirty-five days of receipt to be deposited in the higher education emergency capital projects account which is hereby created in the state general fund.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. A new section is added to chapter 28B.15 RCW to read as follows:

(1) Money deposited in the higher education emergency capital projects account shall be appropriated by the legislature exclusively for urgently needed remodeling, rehabilitation, and maintenance projects at any one of the institutions of higher education.

(2) No more than fifty percent of the money generated in an academic year by the general tuition surcharge fee shall be appropriated for projects at any one institution of higher education.