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                            SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2030

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Spanel, May, Ogden, Fraser, Locke and Paris).

 

Read first time March 4, 1991.Requiring information on and repealing various higher education tuition and fee waivers, reduced fees, and residency exemptions.


     AN ACT Relating to higher education tuition and fee waivers, reduced fees, and residency exemptions; and adding new sections to chapter 28B.15 RCW.

 

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

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1.      Each state university, regional university, state college, and the community college system shall include a special report on tuition and fee waivers, reduced fee programs, and residency exemptions in its biennial budget request.  The report shall include specific data requested by, and in a format designed by, the office of financial management in consultation with the higher education coordinating board.  These special reports shall be aggregated and included in the governor's biennial budget document as part of an overview of higher education.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.      Prior to enactment, any new or reauthorized waiver, reduced fee, or residency exemption program considered by the legislature shall be evaluated on a set of common criteria.  In cooperation with the house of representatives and senate higher education and fiscal committees, the higher education coordinating board shall develop and recommend evaluation criteria for each proposed program.  The criteria shall include consideration of a financial needs test.  Using the same criteria, the board shall review and evaluate existing waiver, reduced fee, and residency exemption programs.  The board shall review each program at least once every ten years.  The board shall recommend the continuation, modification, or termination of each program to the governor, the legislature, and the institutions of higher education.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 3.      Any new or reauthorized waiver, reduced fee, or residency exemption program adopted by the legislature shall include a provision for evaluation and reauthorization after an initial term of implementation.  The reauthorization provision shall require the program to expire on a specific date unless legislation is enacted to reauthorize the program.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 4.      For any space available waiver program

that directs an institution to charge an administrative fee of not less than five dollars, each institution of higher education granting a waiver under the program shall charge an administrative fee that will fully cover the institution's cost of administering a participating student's enrollment.  The administrative fee shall be the same for all space available waivers granted by the institution, and shall be charged to all students receiving a space available waiver by the institution.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 5.      Sections 1 through 4 of this act are each added to chapter 28B.15 RCW.