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                                                   HOUSE BILL NO. 1316

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Representatives Jacobsen, R. Fisher, Anderson, Wineberry, R. King and Ebersole

Read first time 1/20/89 and referred to Committees on Higher Education/Appropriations.

AN ACT Relating to tuition and fees exemptions; and amending RCW 28B.15.620.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 22, chapter 279, Laws of 1971 ex. sess. as last amended by section 1, chapter 307, Laws of 1983 and RCW 28B.15.620 are each amended to read as follows:

          Notwithstanding any other provision of law, veterans of the Vietnam conflict who have served in the southeast Asia theater of operations attending institutions of higher learning shall be exempted from the payment of any increase in tuition and fees otherwise applicable to any other resident or nonresident student at any institution of higher education, and shall not be required to pay more than the total amount of tuition and fees paid  by veterans of the Vietnam conflict on October 1, 1977:  PROVIDED, That for the purposes of this exemption, "veterans of the Vietnam conflict" shall be those persons who have been on active federal service as a member of the armed military or naval forces of the United States between a period commencing August 5, 1964, and ending on May 7, 1975, and who qualify as a resident student under RCW 28B.15.012, and who have enrolled in state institutions of higher education on or before May 7, 1989.  Persons who begin serving in the Peace Corps on or after September 1, 1989, and qualify as resident students under RCW 28B.15.012 shall pay the same tuition and fee rate as veterans of the Vietnam conflict.  This section shall expire June 30, 1995.