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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5874

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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 community college tuition fees; and amending RCW 28B.15.502.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 8, chapter 257, Laws of 1981 as last amended by section 25, chapter 390, Laws of 1985 and RCW 28B.15.502 are each amended to read as follows:

          Tuition fees and services and activities fees at each community college other than at summer quarters shall be as follows:

          (1) For full time resident students, the total tuition fees ((shall be twenty-three)) for the 1987-88 academic year shall be five hundred forty-one dollars and fifty cents, and for the 1988-89 academic year shall be five hundred seventy-four dollars and fifty cents, and thereafter shall remain so for each academic year in each biennium until eighteen percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges 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 one hundred ((and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents)) sixty dollars and fifty cents for the 1987-88 academic year and one hundred ninety-three dollars and fifty cents thereafter.

          (2) For full time nonresident students, the total tuition 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 the building fees for each academic year shall be ((four hundred and three dollars and fifty cents)) five hundred forty-one dollars and fifty cents for the 1987-88 academic year and six hundred seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents thereafter.

          (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 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) Tuition 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.