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HOUSE BILL 1291
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Representatives Goldsmith, Carlson, Mulliken, Sheahan, McMahan, Buck, Benton, Thompson and Kessler
Read first time 01/20/95. Referred to Committee on Higher Education.
AN ACT Relating to a surcharge for excess credits taken at institutions of higher education; reenacting and amending RCW 28B.15.031; and adding a new section to chapter 28B.15 RCW.
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) As used in this section and RCW 28B.15.031, "excess credit" means: (a) Any credit taken by an undergraduate student who has accumulated more than one hundred fifteen percent of the number of credits required to complete the student's baccalaureate degree program at a state university, regional university, or The Evergreen State College; or (b) any credit taken at a community college by a student who has accumulated more than two hundred ten quarter credits or one hundred forty semester credits.
(2) State universities, regional universities, and The Evergreen State College shall collect a surcharge from any undergraduate student who is enrolled for excess credits. The surcharge for those excess credits shall be calculated to ensure that, for those credits, the student pays one hundred percent of the per student undergraduate educational cost calculated by the higher education coordinating board for that type of institution of higher education.
(3) Community colleges shall collect a surcharge from any student who is enrolled for excess credits. The surcharge for those excess credits shall be calculated to ensure that, for those credits, the student pays one hundred percent of the per student undergraduate educational cost calculated by the higher education coordinating board for community colleges.
Sec. 2. RCW 28B.15.031 and 1993 sp.s. c 18 s 6 and 1993 c 379 s 201 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
The term "operating fees" as used in this chapter shall include the fees, other than building fees, charged all students registering at the state's colleges and universities but shall not include surcharges for excess credits under section 1 of this act, or fees for short courses, self-supporting degree credit programs and courses, marine station work, experimental station work, correspondence or extension courses, and individual instruction and student deposits or rentals, disciplinary and library fines, which colleges and universities shall have the right to impose, laboratory, gymnasium, health, and student activity fees, or fees, charges, rentals, and other income derived from any or all revenue producing lands, buildings and facilities of the colleges or universities heretofore or hereafter acquired, constructed or installed, including but not limited to income from rooms, dormitories, dining rooms, hospitals, infirmaries, housing or student activity buildings, vehicular parking facilities, land, or the appurtenances thereon, or such other special fees as may be established by any college or university board of trustees or regents from time to time. All moneys received as operating fees at any institution of higher education shall be deposited in a local account containing only operating fees revenue and related interest: PROVIDED, That two and one-half percent of operating fees shall be retained by the institutions, except the technical colleges, for the purposes of RCW 28B.15.820. Local operating fee accounts shall not be subject to appropriation by the legislature or allotment procedures under chapter 43.88 RCW.
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