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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5872

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State of Washington                              50th Legislature                              1987 Regular Session

By Senator Peterson

Read first time 2/18/87 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to tuition fees; and amending RCW 28B.15.402.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 7, chapter 257, Laws of 1981 as last amended by section 24, chapter 390, Laws of 1985 and RCW 28B.15.402 are each amended to read as follows:

          Tuition fees and services and activities fees at the regional universities and The Evergreen State College for other than summer quarters or semesters shall be as follows:

          (1) For full time resident undergraduate students and all other full time resident students not in graduate study programs, the total tuition fees ((shall be one-fourth)) for the 1987-88 and 1988-89 academic years shall be eight hundred twenty-three dollars and fifty cents and shall remain so for each academic year until twenty percent of the per student undergraduate educational costs at the regional universities computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070 exceed such amount in which case the fees shall be increased accordingly:  PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year shall be seventy-six dollars and fifty cents.

          (2) For full time resident graduate students, the total tuition fees ((shall be twenty-three percent)) for the 1987-88 and 1988-89 academic years shall be one thousand two hundred thirty-four dollars and fifty cents and shall remain so for each academic year in each biennium thereafter until fourteen percent of the per student graduate educational costs at the regional universities computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070 exceed such amount in which case the fees shall be increased accordingly:  PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year thereafter shall be seventy-six dollars and fifty cents.

          (3) For full time nonresident undergraduate students and all other full time nonresident students not in graduate study programs, the total tuition fees shall be one hundred percent of the per student undergraduate educational costs at the regional universities computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070:  PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year shall be two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.

          (4) For full time nonresident graduate students, the total of tuition fees shall be seventy-five percent of the per student graduate educational costs at the regional universities computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070:  PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year shall be two hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents.

          (5) The boards of trustees of each of the regional universities and The Evergreen State College shall charge and collect equally from each of the students registering at the particular institution and included in subsections (1) through (4) hereof a services and activities fee which for each year of the 1981-83 biennium shall not exceed one hundred eighty-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 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.