S-1561

AN ACT Relating to community college enrollments; amending RCW 28B.15.502; adding a new section to chapter 28B.15 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 28B.15 RCW to read as follows:

(1) The boards of trustees of the community college districts may operate summer schools on either a self-supporting or a state-funded basis.

If summer school is operated on a self-supporting basis, the fees charged shall be retained by the colleges, and shall be sufficient to cover the direct costs, which are instructional salaries and related benefits, supplies, publications, and records.

Community colleges that have self-supporting summer schools shall continue to receive general fund state support for vocational programs that require that students enroll in a four quarter sequence of courses that includes summer quarter due to clinical or laboratory requirements and for ungraded courses limited to adult basic education, vocational apprenticeship, aging and retirement, small business management, industrial first aid, and parent education.

(2) The boards of trustees of the community college districts may exceed state-funded, full-time equivalent enrollment limits by four percent each fiscal year and charge those students 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.

Community colleges that currently have excess enrollments above the state-funded limit, by means of enrollments that would have otherwise been eligible for state funding, shall reduce those excess enrollments to four percent above the state-funded full-time equivalent enrollment limits by September 1, 1995, in at least equal annual reductions, commencing with the 1991-92 fiscal year.

Should the number of student supported, full-time equivalent enrollments exceed in any fiscal year the limits established in this section, the colleges 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 in excess of the limit.

(3) The state board for community college education shall ensure compliance with this section.

Sec. 2. RCW 28B.15.502 and 1985 c 390 s 25 are each amended to read as follows:

Tuition fees and services and activities fees at each community college other than at summer quarters shall be as follows:

(1) For full time resident students, the total tuition fees shall be twenty-three percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070: PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year shall be one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents.

(2) For full time nonresident students, the total tuition fees shall be one hundred percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070: PROVIDED, That the building fees for each academic year shall be four hundred and three dollars and fifty cents.

(3) The boards of trustees of each of the state community colleges shall charge and collect equally from each of the students registering at the particular institution and included in subsections (1) and (2) hereof a services and activities fee which for each year of the 1981-83 biennium shall not exceed sixty-four dollars and fifty cents. In subsequent biennia the board of trustees may increase the existing fee, consistent with budgeting procedures set forth in RCW 28B.15.045, by a percentage not to exceed the percentage increase in tuition fees authorized in subsection (1) above: PROVIDED, That such percentage increase shall not apply to that portion of the services and activities fee previously committed to the repayment of bonded debt. The services and activities fee committee provided for in RCW 28B.15.045 may initiate a request to the governing board for a fee increase.

(4) Tuition and services and activities fees consistent with the above schedule will be fixed by the state board for community colleges for summer school students unless the community college charges fees in accordance with section 1 of this 1991 act.

The board of trustees shall charge such fees for ungraded courses, noncredit courses, community services courses, and self-supporting short courses as it, in its discretion, may determine, not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the state board for community college education.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect June 15, 1991.