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                                  HOUSE BILL 1056

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives R. Fisher, Betrozoff, Zellinsky, Ferguson, Bray, Basich, R. Meyers, Kremen, R. King, McLean and Heavey; by request of Washington State Patrol.

Read first time January 17, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.Including state patrol employees in tuition waiver programs.

     AN ACT Relating to tuition waivers for state employees at state institutions of higher education; and amending RCW 28B.15.558.

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

     Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.558 and 1990 c 88 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) The governing boards of state institutions of higher education as defined in RCW 28B.10.016 may waive the tuition and services and activities fees for state employees as defined under subsection (2) of this section pursuant to the following conditions:

     (a) Such state employees shall register for and be enrolled in courses on a space available basis and no new course sections shall be created as a result of the registration;

     (b) Enrollment information on state employees registered pursuant to this section shall be maintained separately from other enrollment information and shall not be included in official enrollment reports, nor shall such state employees be considered in any enrollment statistics which would affect budgetary determinations; and

     (c) State employees registering on a space available basis shall be charged a registration fee of not less than five dollars.

     (2) For the purposes of this section, "state employees" means permanent full-time employees in classified service under chapters 28B.16 and 41.06 RCW and the officers of the Washington state patrol.