FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 2250

                         C 174 L 96

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Requiring annual budget review, recommendations, and guidelines for the higher education system.

Sponsors:  Representatives Carlson, Mastin, Mulliken, Sheahan, Jacobsen, Mason, Blanton, Goldsmith and Scheuerman; by request of Higher Education Coordinating Board.

House Committee on  Higher Education

Senate Committee on Higher Education

Background:  The Higher Education Coordinating Board (HECB) reviews, evaluates, and makes recommendations on the operating and the capital budget requests from four-year institutions and the community and technical college system.  The HECB recommendations must be made by October 15 of each even-numbered year.  The board does not have statutory authority to review supplemental budget requests.

Summary:  Institutions of higher education and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges must submit their supplemental budgets to the Higher Education Coordinating Board.  The HECB must submit its supplemental budget recommendations to the Office of Financial Management by November 1 and to the Legislature by January 1.

Votes on Final Passage:

House     96 0

Senate    48 0

Effective:  June 6, 1996