H. B. 4608


(By Delegate Perdue)

[Introduced February 22, 2002 ; referred to the

Committee on Education then Finance.]





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 one-b, relating to higher education; tuition; and allowing a nonresident person whose natural parents both graduated from a state university or college to pay the resident tuition 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 one-b, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10. FEES AND OTHER MONEY COLLECTED AT STATE INSTITUTIONS
OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
§18B-10-1b. Resident tuition rates for nonresident students of parents who both graduated from a state college or university.

This section may be cited as the "West Virginia Legacies Act."

(a) The term "resident" or "residency", or any other term or expression used to designate a West Virginia resident student, when used to determine the rate of tuition to be charged students attending a West Virginia college or university shall be construed to include any student attending or applying for admission to a West Virginia college or university whose natural parents both graduated from a West Virginia college or university, regardless of the applicant's current state of residence.
(b) The applicant will be solely responsible for providing acceptable documentation in proof of the essential facts necessary to establish him or her as being entitled to resident tuition status under this section.
(c) The provisions of this section will apply at the beginning of the semester or term immediately following the effective date of this section.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to permit persons whose natural parents have both graduated from a West Virginia college or university to pay resident tuition rates, regardless of his or her actual state of residence.

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