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1998 Session

Budget Amendments - SB30 (Conference Report)

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Technology Fee MWC

Item 233 #2c

Item 233 #2c

First Year - FY1999 Second Year - FY2000
Education: Higher Education
Mary Washington College FY1999 $127,340 FY2000 $130,719 NGF

Language
Page 160, line 44, strike "$27,278,571" and insert "$27,405,911".
Page 160, line 44, strike "$28,313,442" and insert "$28,444,161".
Page 161, after line 38, insert:
"D.  This appropriation authorizes Mary Washington College to charge students a technology service fee in conformity with §4-2.01c. of this act.  This appropriation  includes $127,340 the first year and $130,719 the second year from nongeneral funds, the unexpended balance of which shall not revert to the general fund in any fiscal year but shall be carried forward on the books of the Department of Accounts and allotted for expenditure each July 1.  The fee charged resident undergraduate students each year shall not exceed one percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998, and the amounts appropriated in this item reflect that policy.  The Department of Planning and Budget shall allot technology fee revenues in excess of the amounts appropriated in this item provided that the revenues are not generated by resident undergraduate students and provided that such revenues reflect a fee that does not exceed three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998 to nonresident undergraduate students and three percent of the total of tuition and required fees charged in fiscal year 1998 to graduate and professional students."


Explanation
(This amendment provides authority to Mary Washington College to charge students a technology fee not to exceed, for resident undergraduate students, a one percent increase over current tuition and required fee levels. The college may charge a fee not to exceed a three percent increase to nonresident students and graduate and professional students. Companion amendments provide this same authority to the other public institutions of higher education.)