SB336 HFIN AM

The Committee on Finance moves to amend the bill on page thirteen, section one, line one hundred sixty-three, following the word "purpose" and the period by inserting the following:
"(o) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, Blue Ridge Community and Technical College is a free- standing community and technical college and not administratively linked to any other institution." ; and
On page twenty-one, following 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 affiliated programs, and In in addition to the number of fee waivers permitted in sections five and six of this article for undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, each state institution of higher education may shall 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 Such fee waivers shall not be used by any state institution of higher education to preclude or prevent any other financial aid for which the health sciences and technology academy program recipient may be eligible. All health sciences and technology academy program fee waivers shall be for a period of time not to exceed the number of semesters normally required in the health sciences and technology academy program recipient's academic discipline. All health sciences and technology academy program fee waivers shall remain in effect as long as the health sciences and technology academy program recipients are students in good academic standing at their respective state institution of higher education and have not exceeded the period of time established above.
(b) For purposes of this section, "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. ;
(c) Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, the health science and technology academy waiver program shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand ten unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished; and
(d) The health science and technology academy shall report to the Joint Commission on Government and Finance annually beginning in July of two thousand eight all students who have received a tuition waiver , the schools from which they received the tuition waiver, the value of the tuition waiver and additional information determined to be essential to the waiver program "
And,
The Committee on Finance moves the enacting clause 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" followed by a colon.