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                                          SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL NO. 2646

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1990 Regular Session

By House Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Representatives Doty, Jacobsen, Wood, Van Luven, Fraser, Prince, Bowman, Basich, Youngsman, Ferguson, Betrozoff and Schoon)

Read first time 1/31/90.

AN ACT Relating to international education; creating new sections; making an appropriation; and declaring an emergency.

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

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The public policy institute of The Evergreen State College, with the cooperation and assistance of the higher education coordinating board, the department of trade and economic development, the superintendent of public instruction, and institutions of higher education, shall organize and sponsor a conference on international education.  The conference shall be held before the end of the 1991 calendar year for legislators, college and university presidents, academic vice-presidents, public school superintendents, and leaders of businesses and industries involved in international trade.  The purposes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

          (1) Discussing the establishment of cooperative public-private partnerships dedicated to international economic development education;

          (2) Developing a strategy for using the combined resources of education and business to market Washington products and expertise abroad;

          (3) Creating collaborative relationships within education disciplinary fields to strengthen the connection between primary, secondary, college, and university faculty;

          (4) Exploring methods that government and business can use to assist student and faculty exchanges abroad;

          (5) Discussing innovative methods that institutions, businesses, and government can use to ensure that Washington's citizens are prepared to thrive in an international world;

          (6) Exploring the possible development of a school for international studies, to be held on college campuses during the summer for high school or college students; and

          (7) Developing educational and training objectives to implement policy goals recommended by conferees.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The public policy institute of The Evergreen State College, with the assistance of other agencies involved in the conference, shall report the findings and recommendations of the conferees to the legislature by June 30, 1992.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     The sum of twenty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the biennium ending June 30, 1991, from the general fund to the public policy institute of The Evergreen State College for the purposes of this act.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.