S-490                 _______________________________________________

                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3141

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Patterson, Rinehart, Gaspard, Goltz, Saling, Johnson, Warnke, Halsan, Bender, Conner, McManus and Stratton

Read first time 1/18/85 and referred to Committee on Education.

AN ACT Relating to tuition and fees at institutions of higher education; and amending RCW 28B.15.502.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 8, chapter 257, Laws of 1981 as amended by section 10, chapter 37, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.502 are each amended to read as follows:

          General tuition fees, operating fees and services and activities fees at each community college other than at summer quarters shall be as follows:  ((PROVIDED, That increases in tuition and fee rates for the 1982 summer session shall reflect the increases set forth below for the 1982-83 academic year:))

          (1) For full time resident students, the total of general tuition and operating fees ((for the 1981-82 academic year shall be four hundred six dollars and fifty cents, and for the 1982-83 academic year shall be four hundred fifty-four dollars and fifty cents, and thereafter such fees)) shall be twenty-three percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070:  PROVIDED, That the general tuition fee for each academic year shall be ((one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents)) one hundred sixty dollars and fifty cents for the 1985-86 academic year and one hundred ninety-three dollars and fifty cents thereafter.

          (2) For full time nonresident students, the total of general tuition and operating fees ((for the 1981-82 academic year shall be one thousand seven hundred sixty-five dollars and fifty cents, and for the 1982-83 academic year shall be one thousand nine hundred seventy-two dollars and fifty cents, and thereafter such fees)) shall be one hundred percent of the per student educational costs at the community colleges computed as provided in RCW 28B.15.067 and 28B.15.070:  PROVIDED, That the general tuition fee for each academic year shall be ((four hundred and three dollars and fifty cents)) five hundred forty-one dollars and fifty cents for the 1985-86 academic year and six hundred seventy-nine dollars and fifty cents thereafter.

          (3) The boards of trustees of each of the state community colleges shall charge and collect equally from each of the students registering at the particular institution and included in subsections (1) and (2) hereof a services and activities fee which for each year of the 1981-83 biennium shall not exceed sixty-four dollars and fifty cents.  In subsequent biennia the board of trustees may increase the existing fee, consistent with budgeting procedures set forth in RCW 28B.15.045, by a percentage not to exceed the percentage increase in tuition and operating fees authorized in subsection (1) above:  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.

          (4) General tuition, operating fees and services and activities fees consistent with the above schedule will be fixed by the state board for community colleges for summer school students.

          The board of trustees shall charge such fees for ungraded courses, noncredit courses, community services courses, and self-supporting short courses as it, in its discretion, may determine, not inconsistent with the rules and regulations of the state board for community college education.