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Senate Bill No. 187

(By Senators Hunter, Minard, Redd, Edgell, Fanning, Jackson,

Snyder, Unger, Kessler, Prezioso, Ross, Plymale, Walker,

Bailey, Dittmar, Sharpe, Oliverio, Mitchell, Love, Ball,

McCabe,Deem, Minear, Anderson, Bowman, Wooton, Sprouse and



Tomblin)


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[Introduced January 22, 1999; referred to the Committee

on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend article ten, chapter eighteen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section seven-b, relating to establishing programs at state institutions of higher education allowing residents who are at least sixty-five years old to audit, or take for credit, classes at reduced rates.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article ten, chapter eighteen-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section seven-b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10. FEES AND OTHER MONEYS COLLECTED AT STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
§18B-10-7b. Tuition and fee waivers or adjustments for residents at least sixty-five years old.

(a) Each state institution of higher education shall establish a program that allows West Virginia residents who are at least sixty-five years old to attend its undergraduate and graduate courses and classes, if classroom space is available and with the instructor's consent, at reduced tuition and fee rates. The state institution of higher education may require the person to pay special fees, including laboratory fees, if the fees are required of all other students taking a single or the particular course and may also require the person to pay for parking. The program shall provide, at a minimum:
(1) No grade or credit be given to persons participating in the program;
(2) Priority for allowing a participant to take a particular class or course be given to those applying for the class or course in chronological order of request; and
(3) The total tuition and fees charged for each course or class, excluding laboratory and parking fees, does not exceed fifty dollars.
(b) In addition to the program established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section each state institution of higher education shall establish a program that allows West Virginia residents who are at least sixty-five years old to attend its undergraduate and graduate courses and classes for credit, if classroom space is available and with the instructor's consent, at reduced tuition and fee rates. The rates may not exceed fifty percent of the normal rates charged to state residents by the institution.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to establish programs at all state institutions of higher education to allow residents who are at least sixty-five years old to audit, or take for credit, undergraduate and graduate classes at reduced rates.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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