BILL REQ. #:  H-0253.1 

Read first time 01/14/2003.   Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

     AN ACT Relating to making related and supplemental educational instruction for apprentices graded courses at community and technical colleges; amending RCW 28B.50.880 and 28B.15.069; and reenacting and amending RCW 28B.15.515.

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

Sec. 1   RCW 28B.50.880 and 2001 c 204 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) The state board for community and technical colleges shall provide recommendations to the apprenticeship council and apprenticeship programs, established under chapter 49.04 RCW, on matters of related and supplemental instruction for apprentices, coordination of instruction with job experiences, and the qualification of teachers for such instruction.
     (2) Community and technical colleges shall grade related and supplemental instruction for apprentices in the same manner as other courses providing academic credit applicable to an associate degree.

Sec. 2   RCW 28B.15.515 and 1993 sp.s. c 18 s 13 and 1993 sp.s. c 15 s 8 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
     (1) The boards of trustees of the community college districts may operate summer schools on either a self-supporting or a state-funded basis.
     If summer school is operated on a self-supporting basis, the fees charged shall be retained by the colleges, and shall be sufficient to cover the direct costs, which are instructional salaries and related benefits, supplies, publications, and records.
     Community colleges that have self-supporting summer schools shall continue to receive general fund state support for: (a) Vocational programs that require that students enroll in a four quarter sequence of courses that includes summer quarter due to clinical or laboratory requirements; (b) vocational apprenticeship; and ((for)) (c) ungraded courses limited to adult basic education, ((vocational apprenticeship,)) aging and retirement, small business management, industrial first aid, and parent education.
     (2) The board of trustees of a community college district may permit the district's state-funded, full-time equivalent enrollment level, as provided in the omnibus state appropriations act, to vary. If the variance is above the state-funded level, the district may charge those students above the state-funded level a fee equivalent to the amount of tuition and fees that are charged students enrolled in state-funded courses. These fees shall be retained by the colleges.
     (3) The state board for community and technical colleges shall ensure compliance with this section.

Sec. 3   RCW 28B.15.069 and 1997 c 403 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
     (1) As used in this section, each of the following subsections is a separate tuition category:
     (a) Resident undergraduate students and all other resident students not in first professional, graduate, or law programs;
     (b) Nonresident undergraduate students and all other nonresident students not in first professional graduate or law programs;
     (c) Resident graduate students;
     (d) Resident law students;
     (e) Nonresident graduate students;
     (f) Nonresident law students;
     (g) Resident first professional students; and
     (h) Nonresident first professional students.
     (2) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, as used in this section "first professional programs" means programs leading to one of the following degrees: Doctor of medicine, doctor of dental surgery, or doctor of veterinary medicine.
     (3) The building fee for each academic year shall be a percentage of total tuition fees. This percentage shall be calculated by the higher education coordinating board and be based on the actual percentage the building fee is of total tuition for each tuition category in the 1994-95 academic year, rounded up to the nearest half percent.
     (4) The governing boards of each institution of higher education, except for the technical colleges, shall charge to and collect from each student a services and activities fee. A governing board may increase the existing fee annually, consistent with budgeting procedures set forth in RCW 28B.15.045, by a percentage not to exceed the annual percentage increase in student tuition fees for the applicable tuition category: PROVIDED, That such percentage increase shall not apply to that portion of the services and activities fee previously committed to the repayment of bonded debt. The services and activities fee committee provided for in RCW 28B.15.045 may initiate a request to the governing board for a fee increase.
     (5) Tuition and services and activities fees consistent with subsection (4) of this section shall be set by the state board for community and technical colleges for community college summer school students unless the community college charges fees in accordance with RCW 28B.15.515.
     (6) Subject to the limitations of RCW 28B.15.910, each governing board of a community college may charge such fees for ungraded courses, noncredit courses, community services courses, courses offered for the purpose of satisfying related and supplemental instruction for apprentices, and self-supporting courses as it, in its discretion, may determine, consistent with the rules of the state board for community and technical colleges.