COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Representative Don Carlson, Chair

BILL ANALYSIS

HB 2534

Waiving operating fees for students registered for a doctor of pharmacy.

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 eighteen credit hours are charged an additional operating fee for each credit hour over eighteen.  Institutions may exempt all, or a portion of the additional operating fee for students who are registered in a first professional program for medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, law or those registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs.

SUMMARY:  Institutions also may exempt the additional operating fee for doctor of pharmacy student enrolled for more than eighteen credit hours.

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Prepared for the House Higher Education Committee

by Sherie Story, Research Analyst (786-7120)

Office of Program Research

May 12, 2006