S-2108 _______________________________________________
SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL NO. 5228
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State of Washington 51st Legislature 1989 Regular Session
By Senate Committee on Higher Education (originally sponsored by Senators Saling, Moore, Bauer, Smitherman, Stratton, Smith, Anderson, Pullen, Talmadge and Rinehart)
Read first time 2/22/89.
AN ACT Relating to services and activities fees; and amending RCW 28B.15.045.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 2, chapter 80, Laws of 1980 as amended by section 2, chapter 91, Laws of 1986 and RCW 28B.15.045 are each amended to read as follows:
The boards of trustees and the boards of regents of the respective institutions of higher education shall adopt guidelines governing the establishment and funding of programs supported by services and activities fees. Such guidelines shall spell out procedures for budgeting and expending services and activities fee revenue. Any such guidelines shall be consistent with the following provisions:
(1)
Responsibility for proposing to the governing board program priorities
and budget levels for that portion of program budgets that derive from services
and activities fees shall reside with a services and activities fee committee,
on which students shall hold at least a majority of the voting memberships,
such student members ((to)) shall represent a broad spectrum of
student interests and student organizations, including nontraditional students,
minority and women students, and shall be ((recommended)) selected
by the student government association or its equivalent. The chairperson of
the services and activities fee committee shall be selected by the members of
that committee. The governing board shall insure that the services and
activities fee committee provides an opportunity for all viewpoints to be heard
at a public meeting during its consideration of the funding of student
programs and activities.
(2) The
services and activities fee committee shall evaluate existing and proposed
programs and submit budget recommendations for the expenditure of those
services and activities fees with supporting documents to the college or
university ((administration, and shall submit informational copies of such
to the)) governing board and administration.
(3) The
college or university administration shall ((review and publish a written
response)) make proposed program priorities and budget level
recommendations to the services and activities fee committee ((recommendations)).
This ((response)) recommendation shall outline potential
areas of difference between the committee recommendations and the
administration's proposed budget recommendations. This ((response)) recommendation,
with supporting documentation, shall be submitted to the services and
activities fee committee ((and)) for consideration thirty days before
the services and activities fee committee recommendations are due to the
governing board.
(4) In the event of a dispute or disputes involving the services and activities fee committee recommendations, the college or university administration shall meet with the services and activities fee committee in a good faith effort to resolve such dispute or disputes prior to submittal of final recommendations to the governing board.
(5) Before
adoption of the final budget the governing board shall address areas of
difference between any committee recommendations and the administration's
budget recommendations ((presented for adoption by the board)). A
student representative of the services and activities fee committee shall be
given the opportunity to reasonably address the governing board concerning any
such differences.
(6) The governing board shall consider the program priorities and budget levels proposed and can decrease but cannot increase the services and activities fee committee's proposed dollar amount per budget item without the written agreement of the services and activities fee committee. The governing board shall not fund any items not contained in the original services and activities fee committee proposals without the agreement of the services and activities fee committee, except for any funding required for bond covenant obligations.
(7) Services and activities fees and revenues generated by programs and activities funded by such fees shall be deposited and expended through the office of the chief fiscal officer of the institution.
(((7)))
(8) Services and activities fees and revenues generated by programs and
activities funded by such fees shall be subject to the applicable policies,
regulations, and procedures of the institution and the budget and accounting
act, chapter 43.88 RCW.
(((8)))
(9) All information pertaining to services and activities fees budgets
shall be made available to interested parties.
(((9)))
(10) With the exception of any funds needed for bond covenant
obligations, once the budget for expending service and activities fees is approved
by the governing board, funds shall not be shifted from funds budgeted for
associated students or departmentally related categories until the
administration provides written justification to the services and activities
fee committee and the governing board, or the governing board gives its
express ((approval, or the recognized student governing organization gives
its express)) approval. Such fund transfers cannot result in an
increase from the original budget allocation of the governing board for any
particular item in the budget without the written agreement of the governing
board and the services and activities fee committee.
(((10)))
(11) Any service and activities fees collected which exceed initially
budgeted amounts are subject to subsections (1), (2), (3), and (((9))) (10)
of this section.