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                                                      HOUSE BILL 1515

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State of Washington                              53rd Legislature                             1993 Regular Session

By Representatives Ludwig, Jacobsen, L. Johnson, Ogden, Sehlin, Hansen, Wood, Eide, Lisk, Bray, Edmondson, Grant, Basich, G. Fisher, Quall, Sheldon, Mastin and Long

Read first time 01/29/93.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Requiring that operating fees received at an institution of higher education be deposited in a local account at that institution of higher education.

          AN ACT Relating to higher education; and amending RCW 28B.15.031.

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

        Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.031 and 1987 c 15 s 2 are each 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, 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.  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)) deposited in a local account containing only operating fees revenue and related interest:  PROVIDED, That two and one-half percent of ((moneys received as)) operating fees ((be exempt from such deposit and)) shall be retained by the institutions for the purposes of RCW 28B.15.820((:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That money received by institutions of higher education from 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)).

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