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HOUSE BILL 1548
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Forner, Holland, Ferguson, May, Van Luven, Miller, Betrozoff, Horn, Braddock, Kremen, Edmondson, Chandler, Silver, Orr, Paris and Brough.
Read first time January 31, 1991. Referred to Committee on Higher Education.
AN ACT Relating to community college allocations; and adding new sections to chapter 28B.50 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 28B.50 RCW to read as follows:
It is the intent of the legislature that state-funded full-time equivalent students be allocated by the college board according to demand as demonstrated by indicators that include but are not limited to service levels and participation rates. It is the further intent of the legislature that demand as demonstrated by service levels and participation rates be heavily weighted by the college board in any student allocation model.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 28B.50 RCW to read as follows:
If no increase in the system-wide community college student full-time equivalent enrollments is granted by the legislature for the 1991-93 or succeeding biennia, the college board shall increase the enrollment allocations of community colleges with service levels more than twenty percent below the system-wide average service level by two percent per biennium. The college board shall offset the increase with a reduction in the enrollment allocations of community colleges with the highest service levels. This requirement shall not be in effect if the college board determines that there is good reason to believe that a community college with a low service level cannot effectively use an increase in its enrollment allocation.