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ENGROSSED SENATE BILL NO. 3132
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State of Washington 49th Legislature 1985 Regular Session
By Senators Patterson, Rinehart, Gaspard, Goltz, Saling, Johnson, Bauer, Warnke, Bender, Conner, McManus and McDermott
Read first time 1/18/85 and referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT Relating to financial aid; and amending RCW 28B.15.065.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. Section 6, chapter 322, Laws of 1977 ex. sess. and RCW 28B.15.065 are each amended to read as follows:
It is the
intent of the legislature that needy students not be deprived of access to
higher education due to increases in educational costs or consequent increases
in tuition and fees. It is the sense of the legislature that state
appropriations for student financial aid be adjusted in an amount which
together with funds estimated to be available in the form of basic educational
opportunity grants as authorized under Section 411 of the federal Higher
Education Act of 1965 as now or hereafter amended will equal no less than
((twenty-four percent)) one-third of any change in revenue
estimated to occur as a result of revisions in tuition and fee levels under the
provisions of this 1977 amendatory act.