CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

SENATE BILL 5278

Chapter 85, Laws of 1999

56th Legislature

1999 Regular Session

FOREIGN DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS

EFFECTIVE DATE: 7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 4, 1999

YEAS 48 NAYS 0

BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 9, 1999

YEAS 93 NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE

I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE BILL 5278 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

TONY M. COOK

Secretary

FRANK CHOPP

Speaker of the

House of Representatives

Approved April 22, 1999

FILED

April 22, 1999 - 3:47 p.m.

GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State

State of Washington

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SENATE BILL 5278

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Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington 56th Legislature 1999 Regular Session

By Senators Kohl‑Welles, Finkbeiner, Shin and Bauer

Read first time 01/18/1999. Referred to Committee on Higher Education.

AN ACT Relating to foreign degree-granting institutions; and amending RCW 28B.90.020.

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

Sec. 1. RCW 28B.90.020 and 1993 c 181 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

A foreign degree-granting institution that submits evidence satisfactory to the board of its authorized status in its country of domicile and its intent to establish an educational facility in the state is entitled to operate a branch campus ((~~in the state~~)) as defined in RCW 28B.90.010. Upon receipt of the satisfactory evidence, the board ((~~shall~~)) may certify that the branch campus of the foreign degree-granting institution is approved to operate in the state under this chapter, for as long as the foreign degree-granting institution retains its authorized status in its country of domicile.