Authority: Title 23, Chapter 13.1, Code of Virginia.

A. Out of the amount for Educational and General Programs, the following general fund sums shall be made available for special enhancements. The University shall submit within 60 days after the end of each fiscal year to the Secretary of Education a report on the specific uses of this funding.

B. Out of the amounts for Educational and General Programs, a maximum of $70,000 the first year and $70,000 the second year from the general fund for the Dozoretz National Institute for Minorities in Applied Sciences. No allotment of these funds shall be made until Norfolk State University has certified to the Secretary of Education that funds, in cash, are available to match all or any part of the amount herein made available from the general fund.

C. Out of this appropriation, $323,639 $530,530 from the general fund and $41,676 in nongeneral funds the first year and $288,551 $329,708 from the general fund and $41,676 in nongeneral funds the second year is estimated for lease payments to support the cost of equipment purchased with the proceeds of bonds issued by the Virginia College Building Authority. The Director of the Department of Planning and Budget shall transfer to the Virginia College Building Authority on July 1, 1998, the amounts in the first year, and on July 1, 1999, the amounts in the second year to support the Authority's debt obligation.

D. Out of this appropriation, $94,222 the first year and $94,222 the second year from the general fund is designated to assist the University in improving graduation and retention rates.

E. Out of this appropriation, $78,200 the first year and $78,200 the second year from the general fund is designated to establish an enrollment management plan.

F. This appropriation authorizes Norfolk State University to charge students a technology service fee in conformity with § 4-2.01 c of this act. This appropriation includes $211,080 the first year and $213,780 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.