Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3864 Primary Sponsor:Meacham Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:JR Subject:Tuition increase for out-of-state students Residing Body:House Computer Document Number:DKA/4510AL.93 Introduced Date:19930406 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930428 Last History Type:Referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Meacham Wofford Simrill Vaughn A. Young Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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3864 House 19930428 Referred to Committee 30
3864 House 19930428 Recalled from Committee 21
3864 House 19930406 Introduced, read first time, 21
referred to Committee
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TO PROVIDE THAT OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS, BEGINNING IN THE FALL OF 1993, STATE COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, AND TECHNICAL COLLEGES SHALL INCREASE TUITION AND FEES FOR OUT-OF-STATE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS TO ELIMINATE EIGHTY PERCENT OF THE UNDERGRADUATE STATE GENERAL FUND SUBSIDIES TO OUT-OF-STATE STUDENTS ATTENDING THESE INSTITUTIONS AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE INCREASE IN REVENUE BE USED TO LOWER THE TUITION AND FEES OF IN-STATE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Over a period of five years, beginning in the fall of 1993, state colleges, universities, and technical colleges shall increase tuition and fees for out-of-state undergraduate students to a level sufficient to eliminate eighty percent of the undergraduate state general fund subsidies for the cost of these students. The increased revenue generated as a result of the change must be used to lower the cost of tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students, except that twenty percent of the revenue must be appropriated for the Higher Education Tuition Grants Program pursuant to Chapter 113 of Title 59.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.