Remediation for Hathaway recipients.

WORKING DRAFT
2012
STATE OF
WYOMING
12LSO-0205

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0080

Remediation for Hathaway recipients
.

Sponsored by:

Representative(s) Burkhart and Krone and Senator(s) Jennings

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
the Hathaway student scholarship program;
establishing a reporting system for
honor and performance

Hathaway recipients
receiving
post

secondary
remedial education;
requiring
payment
of
tuition
costs
by
school districts; authorizing loans as specified;
and providing for
an
effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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313 by creating a new subsection (h), 21
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1301(a) by creating a new paragraph (xx) and 21
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1308 by creating a new subsection (f) are amended to read:

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313.

Distribution of funds from foundation account; property tax and cash reserve adjustment; regulations; district remediation
payments.

(h)

F
or any district subject to W.S. 21
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1308(f) whose remediation tuition costs
at the University of Wyoming or a Wyoming community college for
resident high school graduates
receiving
the honor or performance
scholarship under W.S.
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1301 through 21
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1310
for any academic year exceed one-tenth of one percent (.1
0
%) of its
foundation program amount determined under W.S. 21
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309(p)
for that school year, and upon demonstration by the district of financial need as documented by cash flow analysis,
the state superintendent shall
provide
a
payment to the district from the foundation program account in an amount not to exceed the amount of tuition costs exceeding one-tenth of one percent (.1
0
%) of the district's
foundation program amount for that school year.
Payments to a district under this subsection shall be in addition to amounts paid under subsections (b) and (c) of this section and
in the school year immediately following the school year in which paid,
shall
be withheld from the district's
foundation program amount computed under W.S. 21
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309(p)
or
if the district is subject to W.S. 21
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102(b), added to the amount of funds to be recaptured.

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1301.

Definitions.

(a)

As used in this article:

(xx)

"Remedial education course" means a course offered by an institution for which successful completion does not count as credit towards a degree or certificate awarded by that institution, and is offered to students lacking skills necessary to perform at the level required for that course by the institution.

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1308.

Administration; rules and regulations
; remedial education payments
.

(f)

For each academic semester, t
he University of Wyoming and each Wyoming community college shall maintain a list of students
receiving
the honor or performance
scholarship under this article who are enrolled in
a remedial education course
at the institution.
For each reported student
receiving the honor or performance Hathaway scholarship
enrolling in a remedial education
course, the reporting institution shall identify the Wyoming school district from which the student graduated from high school
.
Within forty-five (45) days after each academic semester commences,

the university and each college shall report to each applicable school district the number of students
receiving
the honor or performance
scholarship under this article
who
graduat
ed
from a high school within that district and
are
enroll
ed
in remedial education courses during that academic term at that institution
. The
institution
shall also report to the district the total costs of tuition for providing
remedial
instruction to all
reported students
from that district
. U
pon verification of reported numbers of resident students enrolled in remedial education courses during any academic term, the
school district of residence
shall pay the tuition costs associated with resident students
to the appropriate
institution
. Payment by each applicable school district under this subsection
shall be made to each
reporting
institution not later than seventy-five (75) days after the institution's academic term has commenced. If any payment
differs from the
amount actually due an institution, the excess
or deficient
amount shall be deducted from
or added to
the next payment made under this subsection. For purposes of this subsection, payments due
for any summer term shall be included within the computations and payments for the subsequent fall academic term. The university or any community college reporting and receiving payment under this subsection shall not directly assess and collect any tuition from a reported resident student enrolled in a remedial education program at that institution.

Section 2.

T
his act is effective July 1, 2012.

(END)

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