H.B. 5010

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NONRESIDENT TUITION WAIVER
2 AMENDMENTS
3 2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Afton B. Bradshaw
6 This act modifies the State System of Higher Education by repealing presidents' authority
7 to waive certain tuition for nonresidents. This act also repeals the authorization to offer
8 nonresident partial tuition scholarships.
9 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
10 AMENDS:
11 53B-8-101, as last amended by Chapter 288, Laws of Utah 2001
12 63-55b-153, as last amended by Chapters 49, 219 and 301, Laws of Utah 2002
13 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
14 Section 1. Section 53B-8-101 is amended to read:
15 53B-8-101. Waiver of tuition.
16 (1) The president of each institution may waive all or part of the tuition in behalf of
17 meritorious or impecunious resident students to an amount not exceeding 10% of the total amount
18 of tuition which, in the absence of the waivers, would have been collected from all Utah resident
19 students at the institution.
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 the 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 State College of Utah 30
31 the College of Eastern Utah 18
32 Utah Valley State College 114
33 Salt Lake Community College 43
34 (b) (i) The president may continue to waive the resident portion of the tuition during the
35 entire time the affected meritorious nonresident student remains an undergraduate student in good
36 standing at the institution.
37 (ii) The resident portion of the tuition for each nonresident student is equal to the tuition
38 for resident students at the institution.
39 (c) The president may waive the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious
40 nonresident student receiving a waiver under Subsection (2)(a) after completion of the student's
41 first year of full-time study at the institution.
42 (d) (i) In addition to the waivers authorized by Subsections (2)(a) and (c), the president
43 may waive all or part of the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident student
44 during the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
45 (ii) The number of these nonresident waivers for each institution is limited to the
46 percentage of nonresident students at each institution times the nonresident student number
47 allowed under Subsection (2)(a).
48 (3) Upon recommendation of the board, the president may grant additional full or partial
49 tuition waivers to encourage students to enroll for instruction in occupations critical to the state
50 for which trained personnel are in short supply.
51 [(4) The president may waive all or part of the difference between resident and nonresident
52 tuition in the case of meritorious graduate students and nonresident summer school students.]
53 [(5)] (4) The board shall submit annual budget appropriation requests for each institution
54 which include requests for funds sufficient in amount to equal the estimated loss of dedicated
55 credits that would be realized if all of the tuition waivers authorized by Subsection (2) were
56 granted.
57 Section 2. Section 63-55b-153 is amended to read:
58 63-55b-153. Repeal dates -- Titles 53, 53A, and 53B.

59 (1) Subsection 53-3-205 (9)(a)(i)(D) is repealed July 1, 2007.
60 (2) Subsection 53-3-804 (2)(g) is repealed July 1, 2007.
61 (3) Subsection 53-5-710 (4) pertaining to restrictions at Olympic venue secure areas is
62 repealed April 1, 2002.
63 (4) Title 53, Chapter 12, State Olympic Public Safety Command Act, is repealed July 1,
64 2003.
65 (5) Section 53-12-301.1 is repealed April 1, 2002.
66 (6) Section 53A-1-403.5 is repealed July 1, 2007.
67 (7) Section 53A-3-602 is repealed July 1, 2002.
68 (8) Section 53B-8-104 is repealed July 1, 2003.




Legislative Review Note
as of 7-9-02 11:13 AM

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

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