ESB 5824 - H COMM AMD ADOPTED 4-19-91

By Committee on Appropriations

On page 2, beginning on line 8, strike all of subsection (2) and insert the following,

"(2)(a) The board of trustees of a community college district may permit the district's state-funded, full-time equivalent enrollment level, as provided in the operating budget appropriations act, to vary by plus or minus two percent each fiscal year unless otherwise authorized in the operating budget appropriations act. If the variance is above the state-funded level, the district may charge those students above the state-funded level a fee equivalent to the amount of tuition and fees that are charged students enrolled in state-funded courses. These fees shall be retained by the colleges.

(b) Any community college that in 1990-91 has an enrollment above the state-funded level but below the authorized variance may increase its excess enrollments to within the variance.

(c) Community colleges that currently have excess enrollments more than the authorized variance, by means of enrollments that would have otherwise been eligible for state funding, shall reduce those excess enrollments to within the authorized variance by September 1, 1995, in at least equal annual reductions, commencing with the 1991-92 fiscal year.

(d) Should the number of student-supported, full-time equivalent enrollments in any fiscal year fall outside the authorized variance, the college shall return by September 1st to the state general fund, an amount equal to the college's full average state appropriations per full-time equivalent student for such student-funded full-time equivalent outside the variance, unless otherwise provided in the operating budget appropriations act."