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HOUSE
BILL 2250
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Passed
Legislature - 1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/08/96.
Referred to Committee on Higher Education.
Requiring annual
budget review, recommendations, and guidelines for the higher education system.
AN ACT
Relating to duties of the higher education coordinating board; and amending RCW
28B.80.330.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
28B.80.330 and 1993 c 363 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:
The
board shall perform the following planning duties in consultation with the
four-year institutions, the community and technical college system, and when
appropriate the work force training and education coordinating board, the
superintendent of public instruction, and the independent higher educational
institutions:
(1)
Develop and establish role and mission statements for each of the four-year
institutions and for the community and technical college system;
(2)
Identify the state's higher education goals, objectives, and priorities;
(3)
Prepare a comprehensive master plan which includes but is not limited to:
(a)
Assessments of the state's higher education needs. These assessments may
include, but are not limited to: The basic and continuing needs of various age
groups; business and industrial needs for a skilled work force; analyses of
demographic, social, and economic trends; consideration of the changing ethnic
composition of the population and the special needs arising from such trends; college
attendance, retention, and dropout rates, and the needs of recent high school
graduates and placebound adults. The board should consider the needs of
residents of all geographic regions, but its initial priorities should be
applied to heavily populated areas underserved by public institutions;
(b)
Recommendations on enrollment and other policies and actions to meet those
needs;
(c)
Guidelines for continuing education, adult education, public service, and other
higher education programs.
The
initial plan shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature by December
1, 1987. Comments on the plan from the board's advisory committees and the
institutions shall be submitted with the plan.
The
plan shall be updated every four years, and presented to the governor and the
appropriate legislative policy committees. Following public hearings, the
legislature shall, by concurrent resolution, approve or recommend changes to
the initial plan, and the updates. The plan shall then become state higher education
policy unless legislation is enacted to alter the policies set forth in the
plan;
(4)
Review, evaluate, and make recommendations on operating and capital budget
requests from four-year institutions and the community and technical college
system, based on the elements outlined in subsections (1), (2), and (3) of this
section, and on guidelines which outline the board's fiscal priorities. These
guidelines shall be distributed to the institutions and the community college
board by December of each odd-numbered year. The institutions and the
community college board shall submit an outline of their proposed budgets,
identifying major components, to the board no later than August 1 of each
even-numbered year. The board shall submit recommendations on the proposed
budgets and on the board's budget priorities to the office of financial
management before ((October 15)) November 1st of each
even-numbered year, and to the legislature by January 1 of each odd-numbered
year;
(5) Institutions
and the state board for community and technical colleges shall submit any
supplemental budget requests and revisions to the board at the same time they
are submitted to the office of financial management. The board shall submit
recommendations on the proposed supplemental budget requests to the office of
financial management by November 1st and to the legislature by January 1st.
(6)
Recommend legislation affecting higher education;
(((6)))
(7) Recommend tuition and fees policies and levels based on comparisons
with peer institutions;
(((7)))
(8) Establish priorities and develop recommendations on financial aid
based on comparisons with peer institutions;
(((8)))
(9) Prepare recommendations on merging or closing institutions; and
(((9)))
(10) Develop criteria for identifying the need for new baccalaureate
institutions.
