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                         SENATE BILL 6835

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senators Sheahan, Brown and West

Read first time 02/07/2000.  Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.

Providing for a supplemental fee for Washington State University students participating in the cooperative computer engineering program.

    AN ACT Relating to supplemental tuition fees for higher education programs; and amending RCW 28B.15.110.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.110 and 1977 ex.s. c 126 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Where students at any of the four year state colleges or universities participate in a joint program undertaken by two or more of such institutions, and which leads to a degree, the tuition and fees assessed each student participating in such joint program shall be equal.

    The governing board at each state four year institution shall, where the tuition and fees which it charges resident students participating in a joint program falling within the scope of this section would be less than those charged to any such students from any other state four year institution who participates in such joint program, impose a supplemental fee upon its resident students so participating in order to make the tuition and fees charged to them equal to the highest amount charged to any other resident student from a state four year institution who participates in the program.  Such governing board shall, where the tuition and fees which it charges nonresident students participating in a joint program falling within the scope of this section would be less than those charged to any such students participating from any other state four year institution who participates in such joint program, impose a supplemental fee upon its nonresident students so participating in order to make the tuition and fees charged to them equal to the highest amount charged to any other nonresident student from a state four year institution who participates in the program.

The tuition charged students enrolled in the cooperative computer engineering program offered jointly by Washington State University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Idaho shall be equal for all students in the program from each of the institutions, as negotiated by the participating institutions.  The board of regents of Washington State University shall charge its students who participate in the cooperative computer engineering program offered by Gonzaga University, the University of Idaho, and Washington State University a supplemental fee so that the tuition and fees charged them are equal to the tuition charged by Gonzaga University for its students enrolled in the program.

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