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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 5395

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Patterson, Saling, Rinehart, Bauer, Smitherman, Nelson and Lee; by request of Higher Education Coordinating Board

Read first time 1/23/89 and referred to Committee on   Higher Education.

AN ACT Relating to student financial aid; amending RCW 28B.15.065; and providing an effective date.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 6, chapter 322, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.065 are each amended to read as follows:

          It is the intent of the legislature that needy students not be deprived of access to higher education due to increases in educational costs or consequent increases in tuition and fees.  It is the sense of the legislature that, effective July 1, 1991, state appropriations for student financial aid be adjusted in an amount which, together with funds estimated to be available in the form of basic educational opportunity grants as authorized under Section 411 of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 as now or hereafter amended, will equal ((twenty-four)) thirty-five percent of any change in revenue estimated to occur as a result of revisions in tuition and fee levels under the provisions of this 1977 amendatory act and that the percentage be increased or decreased annually to reflect the changes in needy financial aid applicants as a share of enrollment.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     This act shall take effect July 1, 1991.