GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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HOUSE BILL 1447
     

 
Short Title:	Increase Out-of State-Tuition/UNC System.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Allred;  M. Crawford, Ellis, Gulley, Justus, McComas, and Warner.	
Referred to:	Education, if favorable, Finance.	
May 10, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that out-of-state tuition must be set at a level to recover the full cost of the education.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 116‑144 reads as rewritten:
"§ 116‑144.  Higher tuition to be charged nonresidents.
(a)	The Board of Governors shall fix the tuition and required fees charged nonresidents of North Carolina who attend the institutions enumerated in G.S. 116‑4 at rates higher than the rates charged residents of North Carolina and comparable to the rates charged nonresident students by comparable public institutions  nationwide. The tuition charged nonresidents shall be set at a rate that recovers the full education costs of the nonresident students.
(b)	Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, a person who serves as a graduate teaching assistant or graduate research assistant or in a similar instructional or research assignment and is at the same time enrolled as a graduate student in the same institution may, in the discretion of the Board of Governors, be charged a lower rate fixed by the Board, provided the rate is not lower than the North Carolina resident rate."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to academic periods beginning on or after July 1, 2001.