AN ACT Relating to special fees at institutions of higher education; and reenacting and amending RCW 28B.15.031 and 28B.15.100.

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

Sec. 1. 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, parking, applications, 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: PROVIDED, That the total of such special fees charged to a student for a quarter or semester shall not exceed two percent of the total tuition and service and activities fees charged to a full time undergraduate resident student for a quarter or semester. 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 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.

Sec. 2. Section 28B.15.100, chapter 223, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 67, chapter 370, Laws of 1985 and by section 18, chapter 390, Laws of 1985 and RCW 28B.15.100 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

(1) The board of regents or board of trustees at each of the state's regional and state universities and at The Evergreen State College 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 subject to the limitations under RCW 28B.15.031, the total of all such fees, the tuition fee, and services and activities fee, to be rounded-out to the nearest whole dollar amount: PROVIDED, That such tuition fees for other than summer session quarters or semesters shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the fees charged by boards of trustees of community college districts shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended.

(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 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 allowed to enroll at resident tuition and fee rates upon a declaration by the higher education coordinating board that it finds Washington residents from such 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 established per credit hour tuition fee rate applicable to part-time students in the respective institutional tuition and fee rate categories set forth in this chapter: PROVIDED, That the boards of regents of the University of Washington and Washington State University may exempt students who are registered exclusively in first professional programs in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine and law: PROVIDED FURTHER, That the state board for community college education may exempt students who are registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs from the additional charge.