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                          HOUSE BILL 2534

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1998 Regular Session

By Representatives Parlette, Carlson, Anderson, Wensman, Alexander and Doumit

Read first time 01/15/98.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

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

    AN ACT Relating to waiving operating fees for students registered in a program for doctor of pharmacy; and amending RCW 28B.15.100.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.100 and 1995 1st sp.s. c 9 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The governing boards of the state universities, the regional universities, The Evergreen State College, and the community colleges shall charge to and collect from each of the students registering at the particular institution for any quarter or semester such tuition fees and services and activities fees, and other fees as such board shall in its discretion determine.  The total of all fees shall be rounded to the nearest whole dollar amount:  PROVIDED, That such tuition fees for other than the summer term shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in RCW 28B.15.067.

    (2) Part-time students shall be charged tuition and services and activities fees proportionate to full-time student rates established for residents and nonresidents:  PROVIDED, That students registered for fewer than two credit hours shall be charged tuition and services and activities fees at the rate established for two credit hours:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That, subject to the limitations of RCW 28B.15.910, residents of Idaho or Oregon who are enrolled in community college district number twenty for six or fewer credits during any quarter or semester may be exempted from payment of all or a portion of the nonresident tuition fees differential upon a declaration by the higher education coordinating board that it finds Washington residents from the community college district are afforded substantially equivalent treatment by such other states.

    (3) Full-time students registered for more than eighteen credit hours shall be charged an additional operating fee for each credit hour in excess of eighteen hours at the applicable established per credit hour tuition fee rate for part-time students:  PROVIDED, That, subject to the limitations of RCW 28B.15.910, the governing boards of the state universities and the community colleges may exempt all or a portion of the additional charge, for students who are registered exclusively in first professional programs in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, doctor of pharmacy, or law, or who are registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs.

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