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SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 492
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C 015 L 87
State of Washington 50th Legislature 1987 Regular Session
By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Heavey, Jacobsen, Allen, Prince, Unsoeld, Miller, Brough, Kremen and R. King)
Read first time 2/13/87 and passed to Committee on Rules.
AN ACT Relating to the payment of tuition and fees; amending RCW 28B.15.411; reenacting and amending RCW 28B.15.031; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 1, chapter 356, Laws of 1985 and RCW 28B.15.411 are each amended to read as follows:
Each
institution of higher education, at its discretion, may offer students an
optional plan to pay in advance the ((general tuition)) building
fees, operating fees, and services and activities fees for any quarter or
semester in periodic installments, as established by that institution of higher
education.
((This
section shall expire June 30, 1987.))
Sec. 2. Section 2, chapter 279, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. as last amended by section 2, chapter 356, Laws of 1985 and by section 13, chapter 390, Laws of 1985 and RCW 28B.15.031 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
The term
"operating fees" as used in this chapter shall include the fees,
other than building fees, charged all students registering at the state's
colleges and universities but shall not include fees for short courses,
self-supporting degree credit programs and courses, marine station work,
experimental station work, correspondence or extension courses, and individual
instruction and student deposits or rentals, disciplinary and library fines,
which colleges and universities shall have the right to impose, laboratory,
gymnasium, health, and student activity fees, or fees, charges, rentals, and
other income derived from any or all revenue producing lands, buildings and
facilities of the colleges or universities heretofore or hereafter acquired,
constructed or installed, including but not limited to income from rooms,
dormitories, dining rooms, hospitals, infirmaries, housing or student activity
buildings, vehicular parking facilities, land, or the appurtenances thereon, or
such other special fees as may be established by any college or university
board of trustees or regents from time to time. All moneys received as
operating fees at any institution of higher education shall be transmitted to
the state treasurer within thirty-five days of receipt to be deposited in the
state general fund: PROVIDED, That two and one-half percent of moneys received
as operating fees be exempt from such deposit and be retained by the
institutions for the purposes of RCW 28B.15.820: PROVIDED FURTHER, That ((until
June 30, 1987,)) money received by institutions of higher education ((participating
in)) from the periodic payment plan authorized by RCW 28B.15.411
shall be transmitted to the state treasurer within five days following the
close of registration of the appropriate quarter or semester.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 3. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect June 30, 1987.