CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                        HOUSE BILL 1018

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

Passed by the House February 10, 1999     Yeas 94   Nays 1 Speaker of the House of Representatives Speaker of the House of Representatives Passed by the Senate April 6, 1999   Yeas 44   Nays 0	CERTIFICATE We, Dean R. Foster and Timothy A. Martin, Co-Chief Clerks of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1018  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.                           Chief Clerk                           Chief Clerk
President of the Senate

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Governor of the State of Washington	Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                          HOUSE BILL 1018

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Representatives Carlson, Kenney, Radcliff, Sheahan, Dunn, Esser and Lantz

Prefiled 12/28/98.  Read first time 01/11/1999.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

Changing Washington award for vocational excellence provisions.   

    AN ACT Relating to the Washington award for vocational excellence; amending RCW 28C.04.545; and declaring an emergency.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28C.04.545 and 1995 1st sp.s. c 7 s 6 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) The respective governing boards of the public technical colleges shall provide fee waivers for a maximum of two years for those recipients of the Washington award for vocational excellence established under RCW 28C.04.520 through 28C.04.540 who received the award before June 30, 1994.  To qualify for the waiver, recipients shall enter the public technical college within three years of receiving the award.  An above average rating at the ((vocational-technical institute)) technical college in the first year shall be required to qualify for the second-year waiver.

    (2) Students named by the work force training and education coordinating board after June 30, 1994, as recipients of the Washington award for vocational excellence under RCW 28C.04.520 through 28C.04.550 shall be eligible to receive a grant for undergraduate course work as authorized under RCW 28B.80.272.

(3)(a) Beginning with awards made during the 1998-99 academic year, recipients must complete using the award before the fall term in the sixth year following the date of the award.  For these recipients, eligibility for the award is forfeited after this period.

(b) All persons awarded a Washington award for vocational excellence before the 1995-96 academic year and who have remaining eligibility on the effective date of this section must complete using the award before September 2002.  For these recipients, eligibility for the award is forfeited after this period.

(c) All persons awarded a Washington award for vocational excellence during the 1995-96, 1996-97, and 1997-98 academic years must complete using the award before September 2005.  For these recipients, eligibility for the award is forfeited after this period.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.  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 takes effect immediately.

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