A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to permit a limited Waiver from the UNC tuition surcharge for a student whose university education is interrupted or delayed as a result of disability or active duty military service.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Subsection (b) of Section 89 of Chapter 321 of the 1993 Session Laws, as amended by Section 17.10 of Chapter 769 of the 1993 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina shall ensure that procedures are established that are necessary to impose a twenty‑five percent (25%) tuition surcharge on students who take more than 140 degree credit hours to complete a baccalaureate degree in a four‑year program or more than one hundred ten percent (110%) of the credit hours necessary to complete a baccalaureate degree in any program officially designated by the Board of Governors as a five‑year program. The calculation of these credit hours taken at a constituent institution or accepted for transfer shall exclude hours earned through the College Board's Advanced Placement or CLEP examinations, through institutional advanced placement or course validation, or through summer term or extension programs. No surcharge shall be imposed on any student who exceeds the degree credit hour limits within the equivalent of four academic years of regular term enrollment, or within five academic years of regular term enrollment in a degree program officially designated by the Board of Governors as a five‑year program. Upon application by a student, the tuition surcharge may be waived for no more than two semesters, or summer session equivalents, if the university studies of the student have been significantly interrupted or delayed due to either:  (i) a short‑term or long‑term disability, or (ii) a call to active duty in the military service of the armed forces of the United States, or of the armed forces or militias of any of the several states of the United States. The Board shall report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by April 1, 1994, on its recommendations for implementing this surcharge."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.