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                                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 287

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Representatives Jacobsen, Basich, R. King, Belcher, Unsoeld, Prince, Miller, Madsen, Hastings, K. Wilson, McMullen, Brekke, Appelwick, Hine, Long, D. Nelson, Fisch, Valle, Tanner, Taylor, May, Dellwo, Rust, Lux, Wang and Day

Read first time 1/28/85 and referred to Committee on Higher Education.

AN ACT Relating to higher education tuition and fees; and amending RCW 28B.15.100.

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

        Sec. 1.  Section 28B.15.100, chapter 223, Laws of 1969 ex. sess. as last amended by section 11, chapter 37, Laws of 1982 1st ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.100 are each amended to read as follows:

          (1) The board of regents or board of trustees at each of the state's regional and state universities and at The Evergreen State College shall charge to and collect from each of the students registering at the particular institution for any quarter or semester such general tuition fees, operating fees, services and activities fees, and other fees as such board shall in its discretion determine, the total of all such fees, the general tuition fee, operating fee, and services and activities fee, to be rounded-out to the nearest whole dollar amount: PROVIDED, That such general tuition fees and operating fees for other than summer session quarters or semesters shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That the fees charged by boards of trustees of community college districts shall be in the amounts for the respective institutions as otherwise set forth in this chapter, as now or hereafter amended.

          (2) Part time students shall be charged general tuition, operating, and services and activities fees proportionate to full time student rates established for residents and nonresidents:  PROVIDED, ((That students registered for fewer than two credit hours shall be charged general tuition, operating, and services and activities fees at the rate established for two credit hours:  PROVIDED FURTHER,)) That residents of Idaho or Oregon who are enrolled in community college district number twenty for six or fewer credits during any quarter or semester may be allowed to enroll at resident tuition and fee rates upon a declaration by the council for postsecondary education that it finds Washington residents from such community college district are afforded substantially equivalent treatment by such other states or that, until June 30, 1983, it is in the interest of the residents of such community college district to authorize the exchange of educational opportunities between Washington and other such states on a resident tuition and fee basis.

          (((3) Full-time students registered for more than eighteen credit hours shall be charged an additional operating fee for each credit hour in excess of eighteen hours at the established per credit hour general tuition and operating fee rate applicable to part-time students in the respective institutional tuition and fee rate categories set forth in this chapter:  PROVIDED, That  the boards of regents of the University of Washington and Washington State University may exempt students who are registered exclusively in first  professional programs in medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine and law:  PROVIDED FURTHER, That the state board for community college education may exempt students who are registered exclusively in required courses in vocational preparatory programs from the additional charge.))