H.B. 334

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NATIONAL GUARD STATE EDUCATION
2 2000 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Matt Throckmorton
5 AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION; PROVIDING
6 THAT 2-1/2% OF TUITION WAIVERS AT STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER
7 EDUCATION BE SET ASIDE FOR MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.
8 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
9 AMENDS:
10 53B-8-101, as last amended by Chapters 63 and 276, Laws of Utah 1994
11 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
12 Section 1. Section 53B-8-101 is amended to read:
13 53B-8-101. Waiver of tuition.
14 (1) (a) The president of each institution may waive all or part of the tuition in behalf of
15 meritorious or impecunious resident students to an amount not exceeding 10% of the total amount
16 of tuition which, in the absence of the waivers, would have been collected from all Utah resident
17 students at the institution.
18 (b) Two and a half percent of the 10% designated in Subsection (1)(a) shall be earmarked
19 for members of the Utah National Guard.
20 (2) (a) Each academic year the president of each of the following institutions may waive
21 all or part of the resident portion of the tuition in behalf of the additional number of meritorious
22 nonresident students set forth below who are not current recipients of the waiver:
23 Number of Nonresident
24 Institution Students
25 University of Utah 190
26 Utah State University 165
27 Weber State University 135

28 Southern Utah University 68
29 Snow College 18
30 Dixie College 18
31 College of Eastern Utah 18
32 Utah Valley State College 22
33 Salt Lake Community College 22
34 The president may continue to waive the resident portion of the tuition during the entire
35 time the affected meritorious nonresident student remains an undergraduate student in good
36 standing at the institution. The resident portion of the tuition for each nonresident student is equal
37 to the tuition for resident students at the institution.
38 (b) The president may waive the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious
39 nonresident student receiving a waiver under Subsection (2)(a) after completion of the student's
40 first year of full-time study at the institution.
41 (c) (i) In addition to the waivers authorized by Subsections (2)(a) and (b), the president
42 may waive all or part of the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident student
43 during the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
44 (ii) The number of these nonresident waivers for each institution is limited to the
45 percentage of nonresident students at each institution times the nonresident student number
46 allowed under Subsection (2)(a).
47 (3) Upon recommendation of the board, the president may grant additional full or partial
48 tuition waivers to encourage students to enroll for instruction in occupations critical to the state
49 for which trained personnel are in short supply.
50 (4) The president may waive all or part of the difference between resident and nonresident
51 tuition in the case of meritorious graduate students and nonresident summer school students.
52 (5) The board shall submit annual budget appropriation requests for each institution which
53 include requests for funds sufficient in amount to equal the estimated loss of dedicated credits that
54 would be realized if all of the tuition waivers authorized by Subsection (2) were granted.

Legislative Review Note
as of 2-1-00 12:54 PM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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