H.B. 197 Enrolled

WAIVER OF TUITION BY STATE COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Katherine M. Bryson
This act modifies provisions related to the State System of Higher Education by increasing
the number of tuition waivers of the resident portion of tuition granted to meritorious
nonresident students. This act takes effect on July 1, 2001.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
53B-8-101, as last amended by Chapter 7, Laws of Utah 2000
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 53B-8-101 is amended to read:
53B-8-101. Waiver of tuition.
(1) The president of each institution may waive all or part of the tuition in behalf of
meritorious or impecunious resident students to an amount not exceeding 10% of the total amount
of tuition which, in the absence of the waivers, would have been collected from all Utah resident
students at the institution.
(2) (a) Each academic year the president of each of the following institutions may waive
all or part of the resident portion of the tuition in behalf of the additional number of meritorious
nonresident students set forth below who are not current recipients of the waiver:
Number of Nonresident
Institution Students
the University of Utah 190
Utah State University 165
Weber State University 135
Southern Utah University 68
Snow College 18
Dixie State College of Utah [18] 30
the College of Eastern Utah 18

Utah Valley State College [22] 114
Salt Lake Community College [22] 43
(b) (i) The president may continue to waive the resident portion of the tuition during the
entire time the affected meritorious nonresident student remains an undergraduate student in good
standing at the institution.
(ii) The resident portion of the tuition for each nonresident student is equal to the tuition for
resident students at the institution.
[(b)] (c) The president may waive the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious
nonresident student receiving a waiver under Subsection (2)(a) after completion of the student's first
year of full-time study at the institution.
[(c)] (d) (i) In addition to the waivers authorized by Subsections (2)(a) and [(b)] (c), the
president may waive all or part of the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident
student during the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
(ii) The number of these nonresident waivers for each institution is limited to the percentage
of nonresident students at each institution times the nonresident student number allowed under
Subsection (2)(a).
(3) Upon recommendation of the board, the president may grant additional full or partial
tuition waivers to encourage students to enroll for instruction in occupations critical to the state for
which trained personnel are in short supply.
(4) The president may waive all or part of the difference between resident and nonresident
tuition in the case of meritorious graduate students and nonresident summer school students.
(5) The board shall submit annual budget appropriation requests for each institution which
include requests for funds sufficient in amount to equal the estimated loss of dedicated credits that
would be realized if all of the tuition waivers authorized by Subsection (2) were granted.
Section 2. Effective date.
This act takes effect on July 1, 2001.

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