FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 2534

                          C 75 L 98

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Waiving operating fees for students registered for a doctor of pharmacy.

Sponsors:  Representatives Parlette, Carlson, Anderson, Wensman, Alexander and Doumit.

House Committee on Higher Education

Senate Committee on Higher Education

Background:  Governing boards at the state institutions of higher education charge and collect tuition from students registering at the institution for any quarter or semester.  Full-time students registered for more than 18 credit hours are charged an additional operating fee for each credit hour over 18.  Institutions may exempt all or a portion of the additional operating fee for students registered in a first professional program in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, or law, or students registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs.

Summary:  Institutions of higher education may exempt the additional operating fee for doctor of pharmacy students enrolled for more than 18 credit hours.

Votes on Final Passage:

House960

Senate490

Effective:June 11, 1998