AN ACT Relating to community colleges; amending RCW 28B.15.502; adding a new section to chapter 28B.50 RCW; adding new sections to chapter 28B.59D RCW; and providing for submission of parts of this act to a vote of the people.

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

Sec. 1. Section 8, chapter 257, Laws of 1981 as amended by section 10, chapter 37, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.502 are each amended to read as follows:

General tuition fees, operating fees and services and activities fees at each community college other than at summer quarters shall be as follows((~~: PROVIDED, That increases in tuition and fee rates for the 1982 summer session shall reflect the increases set forth below for the 1982-83 academic year~~)):

(1) For full time resident students, ((~~the total of general tuition and~~)) operating fees ((~~for the 1981-82 academic year shall be four hundred six dollars and fifty cents, and for the 1982-83 academic year shall be four hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents, and thereafter such fees~~)) shall be ((~~twenty-three~~)) eighteen and two-tenths percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070((~~: PROVIDED, That~~)) and the general tuition fee for each academic year shall be ((~~one hundred and twenty-seven~~)) two hundred twenty-three dollars ((~~and fifty cents~~)).

(2) For full time nonresident students, ((~~the total of general tuition and~~)) operating fees ((for the 1981-82 academic year shall be one thousand seven hundred sixty-five dollars and fifty cents, and for the 1982-83 academic year shall be one thousand nine hundred seventy-two dollars and fifty cents, and thereafter such fees)) shall be one hundred percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070((~~: PROVIDED, That~~)) and the general tuition fee for each academic year shall be ((~~four~~)) seven hundred ((~~and three~~)) five dollars and fifty cents.

(3) The boards of trustees of each of the state community colleges shall charge and collect equally from each of the students registering at the particular institution and included in subsections (1) and (2) hereof a services and activities fee which for each year of the 1981-83 biennium shall not exceed sixty-four dollars and fifty cents. In subsequent biennia the board of trustees may increase the existing fee, consistent with budgeting procedures set forth in RCW 28B.15.045, by a percentage not to exceed the percentage increase in tuition and operating fees authorized in subsection (1) above: PROVIDED, That such percentage increase shall not apply to that portion of the services and activities fee previously committed to the repayment of bonded debt. The services and activities fee committee provided for in RCW 28B.15.045 may initiate a request to the governing board for a fee increase.

(4) General tuition, operating fees and services and activities fees consistent with the above schedule will be fixed by the state board for community colleges for summer school students.

The board of trustees shall charge such fees for ungraded courses, noncredit courses, community services courses, and self-supporting short courses as it, in its discretion, may determine, not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the state board for community college education.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 28B.50 RCW to read as follows:

(1) A community college district may levy an ad valorem property tax, in excess of the one percent limitation, upon the property within the district for a one-year period to be used for capital purposes whenever authorized by the voters of the district pursuant to RCW 84.52.052 and Article VII, section 2(a) of the state Constitution.

(2) A community college district may issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes only, together with any outstanding general obligation indebtedness, not to exceed an amount equal to two and one-half percent of the value of the taxable property within the district, as the term "value of taxable property" is defined in RCW 39.36.015, when authorized by the voters of the community college district pursuant to Article VIII, section 6 of the state Constitution, and to provide for the retirement thereof by excess property tax levies as provided in subsection (3) of this section. The community college district may submit a single proposition to the voters which, if approved, authorizes both the issuance of the bonds and the bond retirement property tax levies.

(3) A community college district may provide for the retirement of voter approved general obligation bonds, issued for capital purposes only, by levying bond retirement ad valorem property tax levies, in excess of the one percent limitation, whenever authorized by the voters of the district pursuant to Article VII, section 2(b) of the state Constitution and RCW 84.52.056.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. For the purpose of providing funds for the construction, reconstruction, erection, equipping, maintenance, demolition, and major alteration of buildings and other capital assets owned by the state board for community college education in the name of the state of Washington, and the acquisition of sites, rights of way, easements, improvements, or appurtenances in relation thereto as determined by the legislature, the state finance committee is authorized to issue general obligation bonds of the state of Washington in the sum of thirty million dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, to finance these projects and all costs incidental thereto. Bonds authorized in this section may be sold at such price as the state finance committee shall determine. No bonds authorized in this section may be offered for sale without prior legislative appropriation of the net proceeds of the sale of the bonds.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds authorized in section 3 of this act shall be deposited in the 1975 community college capital construction account in the general fund and shall be used exclusively for the purposes specified in section 3 of this act and for the payment of expenses incurred in the issuance and sale of the bonds.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. The proceeds from the sale of the bonds deposited under section 4 of this act in the 1975 community college capital construction account of the general fund shall be administered by the state board for community college education, subject to legislative appropriation.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 6. The 1975 community college capital construction bond retirement fund shall be used for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in section 3 of this act.

The state finance committee shall, on or before June 30th of each year, certify to the state treasurer the amount needed in the ensuing twelve months to meet the bond retirement and interest requirements. Not less than thirty days prior to the date on which any interest or principal and interest payment is due, the state treasurer shall withdraw from any general state revenues received in the state treasury and deposit in the 1975 community college capital construction bond retirement fund an amount equal to the amount certified by the state finance committee to be due on the payment date.

Bonds issued under section 3 of this act shall state that they are a general obligation of the state of Washington, shall pledge the full faith and credit of the state to the payment of the principal thereof and the interest thereon, and shall contain an unconditional promise to pay the principal and interest as the same shall become due.

The owner and holder of each of the bonds or the trustee for the owner and holder of any of the bonds may by mandamus or other appropriate proceeding require the transfer and payment of funds as directed in this section.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. The legislature may provide additional means for raising moneys for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized in section 3 of this act, and section 6 of this act shall not be deemed to provide an exclusive method for the payment.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. The bonds authorized in section 3 of this act shall be a legal investment for all state funds or funds under state control and for all funds of any other public body.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 9. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 10. Sections 3 through 8 of this act are each added to chapter 28B.59D RCW.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 11. Sections 3 through 8 of this act shall be submitted to the people for their adoption and ratification, or rejection, at the next succeeding general election to be held in this state, in accordance with Article VIII, section 3 of the state Constitution as amended, and the laws adopted to facilitate the operation thereof.