HB0189 • 2017

Higher education-nonresident tuition.

AN ACT relating to higher education; providing for reduced tuition for nonresident students as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Education

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor: Representative Harshman
Last action: 2017-03-01
Official status: inactive
Effective date: Not listed

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Amendments

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HB0189HS001

Standing Committee • HEducation

Adopted

Plain English: Adopted Standing Committee by HEducation

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Bill History

2017-03-01 Senate
S 3rd Reading:Failed 5-25-0-0-0
2017-02-28 Senate
S 2nd Reading:Passed
2017-02-27 Senate
S COW:Passed
2017-02-22 Senate
S Placed on General File
2017-02-22 Senate
S04 - Education:Recommend Do Pass 4-0-1-0-0
2017-02-01 Senate
S Introduced and Referred to S04 - Education
2017-01-31 Senate
S Received for Introduction
2017-01-30 House
H 3rd Reading:Passed 44-16-0-0-0
2017-01-27 House
H 2nd Reading:Passed
2017-01-26 House
H COW:Passed
2017-01-24 House
H Placed on General File
2017-01-24 House
H04 - Education:Recommend Amend and Do Pass 9-0-0-0-0
2017-01-20 House
H Introduced and Referred to H04 - Education
2017-01-20 House
H Received for Introduction
2017-01-19 LSO
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2017
STATE OF WYOMING
17LSO-0555
ENGROSSED
2.1

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0189

Higher education-nonresident tuition.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Harshman, Bovee, Brown, Miller, Northrup and Paxton and Senator(s) Bebout and Perkins

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to higher education; providing for reduced tuition for nonresident students as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section
1
.

W.S. 21
‑
17
‑
105 by creating a new subsection (h)
is amended to read:

21
‑
17
‑
105
.

Tuition to be as nearly free as possible; number, qualifications and selection of students for reduced tuition; tuition for veterans, their spouses and children; reciprocal residency.

(h)

Trustees shall through regulation establish a program under which undergraduate tuition charged to persons who are resident
s
of either Colorado or Nebraska
at the time of enrollment
shall be one hundred
seventy-five
percent (1
75
%) of
the
undergraduate tuition generally charged Wyoming residents.
The program shall provide that the tuition shall maintain at one hundred
seventy-five
percent (1
7
5%) of resident tuition from initial enrollment through all semesters of undergraduate enrollment so long as the student remains continuously enrolled as an undergraduate at the
u
niversity. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as restricting the trustees from modifying resident tuition rates at any time
or affecting the authority of the trustees to enter into agreements with other states, institutions, universities or colleges regarding courses of instruction or tuition charged therefore
.

Section 2.

This act shall apply to students initially enrolling at the
U
niversity of Wyoming for classes beginning on or after the effective date of this act.

Section 3.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

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