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                             ENGROSSED HOUSE BILL 1674

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Representatives Orr, Spanel, Locke, Jacobsen, Heavey, Wineberry, Dorn, Hargrove, Morris, Riley, Basich, Rayburn, Grant, Anderson, Leonard, Sheldon, Cantwell, Jones, Nelson, Rasmussen, Dellwo, R. King, Roland, Zellinsky, R. Fisher, Winsley, Holland, O'Brien, Prentice, Pruitt, Ogden, Miller, Paris, Ebersole, Mitchell, Kremen, Scott, H. Myers and Inslee.

Read first time February 6, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education\Appropriations.Freezing tuition and fees at 1990 rates for Persian Gulf veterans.

     AN ACT Relating to freezing tuition and fees at 1990 rates for Persian Gulf veterans; adding a new section to chapter 28B.15 RCW; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.      It is the intent of the legislature to enable Washington residents who have actively served in the Persian Gulf combat zone to attend any Washington institution of higher education at 1990 tuition rates.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 28B.15 RCW to read as follows:

     A veteran of the Persian Gulf combat zone shall be exempted from increases in tuition and fees at any public institution of higher education that occur during and after their period of service, and shall not be required to pay more than the total amount of tuition and fees established for the 1990-91 academic year, if the veteran could have qualified as a Washington resident student under RCW 28B.15.012(2), had he or she been enrolled as a student on August 1, 1990, and if the veteran's adjusted gross family income as most recently reported to the internal revenue service does not exceed Washington state's median family income as established by the federal bureau of the census.  For the purposes of this section, "a veteran of the Persian Gulf combat zone" means a person who during any portion of calendar year 1991 served in active federal service as a member of the armed military or naval forces of the United States in a combat zone as designated by the president of the United States by executive order.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.      This act shall expire on June 30, 1994.