SB336 HED AM 2-20 adopted

Adopted by House 3-7-07
SB336 H ED AM 2-20

The Committee on Education moves to amend the bill on page twenty-one, after line fifty-one and following §18B-9-4, by inserting the following:

"ARTICLE 10. FEES AND OTHER MONEY COLLECTED AT STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

§18B-10-4b. Additional fee waivers for health sciences and technology academy programs.

(a) For students who are residents of West Virginia and who successfully complete the health sciences and technology academy programs, and in addition to the number of fee waivers permitted in sections five and six of this article for undergraduate, graduate and professional schools:
(1) Each state institution of higher education may waive all fees or any part thereof; ~~for students who are residents of West Virginia and who successfully complete the health sciences and technology academy affiliated programs~~ and
(2) Each school of medicine shall waive tuition and required fees for a minimum of four semesters.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Health Sciences and Technology Academy Programs" means those programs in the health sciences designed to assist junior high and high school students in conjunction with their parents and teachers, to enhance their knowledge and abilities in subject matters which will further a career in the field of health sciences; and
(2) "School of medicine" means West Virginia University School of Medicine, Marshall University School of Medicine and West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.";
And,
On page two by amending the enacting section to read as follows:
" That §18B-5-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; that §18B-1B-3 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18B-2A-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18B-2B-3 and §18B-2B-5 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18B-9-4 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18B-10-4b of said code be amended and reenacted; that §18C-3-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; and that §18C-7-6 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows: ".