| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | Primarily from bill summary: Defines "pupil fee." Defines "educational activity" as an activity that constitutes an integral fundamental part of elementary and secondary education, including, but not limited to, curricular and extracurricular activities. Prohibits a pupil enrolled in a public school from being required to pay a pupil fee for participation in an educational activity. Provides that this prohibition is not to be interpreted to prohibit solicitation of voluntary donations, voluntary participation in fundraising activities, or school districts, schools, and other entities from providing pupils prizes or other recognition for voluntarily participating in fundraising activities. Specifies that these provisions apply to all public schools, including charter schools and alternative schools, are declarative of existing law, and should not be interpreted to prohibit the imposition of a fee, deposit, or other charge otherwise allowed by law.
Requires the state department of education, commencing with the 2014–15 fiscal year, and every 3 years thereafter, to develop and distribute guidance for county superintendents of schools, district superintendents, and charter school administrators regarding the imposition of pupil fees for participation in educational activities in public schools. Requires the department to post the guidance on its website and provides that the guidance does not constitute a regulation subject to specified law.
Authorizes a complaint of noncompliance with the provisions of this bill to be filed with the principal of a school under those uniform complaint procedures. Authorizes a complaint to be filed anonymously if specified
circumstances exist. Authorizes a complainant not satisfied with a public school's decision to appeal that decision to the state department of education and receive a written appeal decision within 60 days of the department's receipt of the appeal. If merit is found in either the complaint or appeal, requires the public school to provide a remedy to all affected pupils, parents, and guardians that, where applicable, includes reasonable efforts by the public school to ensure full reimbursement. Requires information regarding the requirements of this bill to be included in a specified annual notification. Requires public schools to establish local policies and procedures to implement these complaint procedures by March 1, 2013. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1575_bill_20120929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1575
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Forbids school districts to collect a fee for providing programming as a high school extracurricular activity.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2012/Bills/HB1195ENR.pdf
Title: H.B. 1195
Source: legis.state.sd.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Permits schools to charge a fee for early childhood services for any child who is under the age of compulsory attendance pursuant to § 13-27-1 and is not enrolled in kindergarten or a more advanced grade. http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2012/Bills/HB1195ENR.pdf
Title: H.B. 1195
Source: legis.state.sd.us
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2012 | P-12 | Removes language requiring the department of human services to complete a financial analysis on each student attending the Illinois School for the Deaf or the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired and to ask parents or guardians to participate, if applicable, in the cost of identified services or activities that are not education related. Requires the department of human services to promulgate rules concerning fees for activities or services at the schools with input from (i) the superintendent of each school and (ii) directors of special education from selected local education agencies that place students at the schools. Removes fees for room and board for residential students and fees for day student meals from the list of established fees parents or guardians of students attending the Illinois School for the Deaf or the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired may be asked to financially participate in. Removes language exempting parents or guardians who are receiving Medicaid or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) from financially participating in the established fees. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0664.pdf
Title: S.B. 274
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Prohibits a public school pupil from being required to pay a pupil fee for participation in an educational activity, as specified. Provides that this prohibition is not to be interpreted to prohibit
solicitation of voluntary donations, voluntary participation in fundraising activities, or school districts, schools and other entities from providing pupils prizes or other recognition for voluntarily participating in fundraising activities. Specifies that these provisions apply to all public schools, including, but not limited to, charter schools and alternative schools, are declarative of existing law, and should not be interpreted to prohibit the
imposition of a fee, deposit or other charge otherwise allowed by law.Requires a superintendent of a school district, county superintendent of schools, or chief executive officer, or a person in the equivalent position, of a charter school, to determine, within the first 8 weeks after the first day of the school year, or during a specified time period for the 2011–12 fiscal year, whether an unlawful pupil fee has been, or is being, charged in the current fiscal year, or on or after January 1, 2012, for the 2011–12 fiscal year. If the superintendent of a school district, county superintendent of schools, or chief executive officer, or a person in the equivalent position, of a charter school makes this determination, he/she would be required to present the determination at a public hearing or meeting of the applicable governing board or body at which the governing board or body would be required to identify the nature of the violation and take action to provide full reimbursements to all affected pupils, parents or guardians within a specified time period. Requires the hearing or meeting to meet specified requirements. Requires a compliance audit, commencing with audits of the 2011–12 fiscal year, to include the verification of compliance with the prohibition against the imposition of pupil fees for participation in educational activities in violation of specified law. Notwithstanding specified law, requires this verification to be added to the audit guide commencing with audits of the 2011–12 fiscal year. Also allows for the adoption of emergency regulations to achieve this goal and requires charter schools to be subject to those audits to ensure compliance with the prohibition against the imposition of unlawful pupil fees. Require a school district and a charter school to use its uniform complaint process to help identify and resolve any deficiencies related to the imposition of pupil fees for participation in educational activities, as those terms are defined.
Provides persons with a complaint regarding the imposition of pupil fees the right to file an appeal to the superintendent of public instruction and requires the superintendent to provide the written report to the state board and the complainant no later than 30 working days after the appeal is received by the superintendent. If the report finds a violation, the superintendent of public instruction must require the offending school district, charter school, or school to fully reimburse all affected pupils, parents or guardians. Requires the classroom notice to include certain information about the prohibition against charging pupil fees for participation in educational activities. Requires a school district, county office of education, and charter school to establish local policies and procedures, post notices, and implement the uniform complaint process provisions regarding the imposition of pupil fees for participation in educational activities by March 2012. Commencing with the 2011–12 audit of local educational agencies, requires the county superintendent of schools to also include in the review of audit exceptions those audit exceptions related to the imposition of pupil fees for participation in educational activities in violation of specified law, and to determine whether the exceptions are either corrected or an acceptable plan of correction is developed. Prohibits an audit exception related to the imposition of unlawful pupil fees from being deemed corrected until the school district, county office of education, or charter school fully reimburses all affected parents, guardians and pupils. Requires the county office of education to review audit exceptions relating to the imposition of unlawful pupil fees. If, in an audit for a subsequent year, the auditor finds an uncorrected or new audit exception related to the imposition of unlawful pupil fees, requires the auditor to make a specified disclosure and requires the superintendent of public instruction to withhold certain payments to the school district, county office of education, or charter school reimbursement is provided.
Excepts specified claims for reimbursement of pupil fees for participation in educational activities from the requirement that all claims for money or damages against local public entities be presented in accordance with specified law. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0151-0200/ab_165_bill_20110909_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_165_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 165
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12 | Authorizes a board of trustees, under certain circumstances, to require payment of a reasonable fee for student transportation to and from school. Page 138 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 1 - Student Transportation Fee
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Permits districts to charge fees (including to low-income students) for any tools, equipment, and materials that are necessary for workforce-readiness training within a career-technical education program that, to the extent the tools, equipment, and materials are not consumed, may be retained by the student upon course completion.
Page 157 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Student Fees for CTE Courses
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| NC | Veto overridden: legislature has overridden governor's veto 06/2011 | P-12 | Removes requirement that the state board implement a $500 tuition charge for students attending the Governor's School of North Carolina. Replaces with provision permitting the state board to implement a tuition charge (dollar amount not specified) to cover the costs of the school. Page 46 of 342: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H200v9.pdf
Title: H.B. 200 - Tuition Charge for Governor's School
Source: www.ncleg.net
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| OH | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Repeals provision requiring districts to provide all-day kindergarten to all students beginning in fiscal year 2011. Permits a district that did not receive for fiscal year 2009 poverty-based assistance for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition or fees for students in all-day kindergarten. Requires a district charging tuition or fees to develop a sliding fee scale based on family income. Requires the department of education's annual survey of kindergarten programs to include whether a district charges fees or tuition for all-day kindergarten, the amount of fees or tuition charged, and how many of the students for whom tuition is charged are eligible for free and reduced lunch. Prohibits a district from requiring a student to attend all-day kindergarten. Pages 37-39 of 41: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_30_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 30 - All-Day Kindergarten
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Provides that a minor enrolled in a private school or a home school is eligible to participate in extracurricular activities at a public school whose district boundaries the student's parent resides within or from which the student withdrew. Provides a private school student may only participate in a public school extracurricular activity that is not offered by the student's private school. Provides exceptions. Prohibits districts or schools from imposing eligibility requirements on private and homeschool students that are not imposed on regular public school students. Requires private and homeschool students to pay same fees as regular public school students to participate in an extracurricular activity. Requires a district superintendent to appoint a panel to verify a home school student's compliance with academic eligibility requirements when requested by a principal. Identifies criteria for and responsibilities of panel members. Permits a homeschool student whom a panel finds not in compliance with academic eligibility to seek to establish academic eligibility for the next activity season. Provides a public school student who has been declared academically ineligible to participate in extracurricular activities and who subsequently enrolls in a home school is academically ineligible until the student demonstrates academic eligibility through specified means. Provides that a public school student declared to be behaviorally ineligible to participate in extracurricular activities and who subsequently enrolls in a home school loses eligibility for participation in extracurricular activities until the student meets the eligibility standards applied to a regular public school student. http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/sbillenr/sb0066.pdf
Title: S.B. 66
Source: le.utah.gov
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| UT | Adopted 11/2009 | P-12 | Requires charter and online schools to allow students to participate in extracurricular activities sponsored by public schools. Repeals tiered participation fee schedule for charter school and online students to participate in extracurricular or co-curricular activities; replaces with flat per-student fee, to be paid by the student's school of enrollment to the school at which the student wishes to participate. Specifies that upon annual payment of the school participation fee, the student may participate in all extracurricular school activities during the school year for which the student is qualified and eligible. Clarifies that the student participation fee for charter school and online students is in addition to specific extracurricular activities and the activity fees charged to all students in the secondary school to supplement school activities. Adds that charter, online and traditional schools may negotiate to allow student participation in specialized courses or programs offered during the regular school day, and school district-sponsored enrichment programs or activities. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-494.htm
Title: R277-494
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Allows school districts to verify a family's eligibility for waivers of school fees separate from the verification process used for free meals received under the federal National School Lunch program. Allows a district establishing an alternative process for determining eligibility of school fee waivers to provide for fee waiver verification no more often than every 60 calendar days. Clarifies that while information gathered during the process may be used to deny the waiver of the student's fees, such information may not be used determine or verify eligibility for any federally funded, school-based child nutrition program. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0360.pdf
Title: H.B. 475
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| UT | Adopted 12/2008 | P-12 | Provides consistent statewide procedures and criteria for homeschool, online school and private school students' participation in public school activities, including dual enrollment. Provides that student participation fees for charter school and online school students must be waived as they already are for private school and homeschool students, although charter or online schools are responsible for payment of waived fees to the resident school district.
Adds provision that if a student with disabilities who attends a charter or online school desires to participate in dual enrollment, the charter/online school is responsible for accommodations or extra costs to the student's resident school for the student's participation.
Title: R277-438
Source: www.lexis.com
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| UT | Adopted 10/2008 | P-12 | Adds rule requiring local school boards to allow charter school and online student participation in extracurricular school activities. Establishes fee schedule for student's school of enrollment to pay to participate in specific extracurricular activities. http://www.rules.utah.gov/publicat/code/r277/r277-494.htm
Title: R277-494
Source: www.rules.utah.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Permits local school boards to enter into contracts with publishers for the purchase of textbooks. The bill expands the definition of textbook to include print, electronic, online, and other manipulative-based programs. The bill reorganizes the textbook purchasing process and repeals several sections of outdated code. Also provides that if consumable materials are sold to students, the local school board must provide those materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them. The substitute bill requires the Department of Education (DOE) to publish the list of approved textbooks on its website and also to list the publisher and the price of the textbooks. DOE anticipates that publishing the required information on its website can be done using existing resources. The requirement for localities to provide these materials at a reduced price, or free of charge, to students who are unable to afford them is a continuation of current policy.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?081+ful+HB137ER
Title: H.B. 137, S.B. 356
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12 | Permits school districts that are not eligible for state payments for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition on a sliding scale for all-day kindergarten classes. Requires the Department of Education to issue an annual report on tuition charged by school districts for all-day kindergarten. Requires the Department of Education, by April 30, 2008, to issue a report on fees charged by school districts for (1) classes or programs that are offered during the regular school day or after school and for which students earn credit or are assigned grades, (2) instructional materials, and (3) summer school.
Analysis and summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/h0190-rs-127.pdf
Title: H.B. 190 -- Multiple Components
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us
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| MS | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Specifies eligibility for students to receieve financial hardship waivers for supplemental instructional materials and supplies, excluding textbooks. Would waive requirement that qualified students be responsible for certain state-authorized fees that districts may otherwise charge.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2007/html/HB/0800-0899/HB0833PS.htm
Title: H.B. 833
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes a district offering both half-day and full-day kindergarten to impose a fee for enrollment in full-day kindergarten, to cover that portion of the cost of providing full-day kindergarten not paid by the state. Clarifies that this does not require districts to offer or students to attend full-day kindergarten
Authorizes a district to expend amounts received from the at-risk pupil weighting to pay for the cost of providing full-day kindergarten to any
student attending full-day kindergarten whether or not such pupil is an at-risk pupil.
Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf
Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf
Title: S.B. 549 - Section 6, 14
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| CO | Signed into law 06/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts to impose a fee for transportation by resolution of the board, rather than by a vote of the people. Adds that districts are authorized to impose the fee for transporting students who are eligible for a free or reduced lunch. Requires a district, prior to adopting a resolution to collect a transportation fee, to hold a public forum to sollicit recommendations from the community on the question of whether to impose the transportation fee and the proposed fee schedule. Requires the district to assess a transportation fee from only those students who use the transportation services. Allows the district to impose the transportation fee on students of charter schools of the district.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/027EE1799103C61A87256F5E005FA0B7?Open&file=1191_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1191
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2005 | Postsec.
Community College | Adds new section: § 23-2.3. Annual reporting of the use of student fees. Requires each public two- and four-year institution of higher education to publish annually a descriptive report detailing the (i) amount and distribution of student activity fees assessed each semester or during an academic year; and (ii) the name of each organization, including the nature of the organization's activity, that receives funding of $100 or more from student activity fees. Also requires each institution to post the annual report of the use of student activity fees to its website to facilitate access and availability of the report to students enrolled at the institution and their parents. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?051+ful+CHAP0532
Title: H.B. 1816
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2005 | P-12 | Requires the state board to make rules requiring a parent or guardian of a student applying for a fee waiver to provide documentation and certification verifying the student's eligibility for a fee waiver or specifying the acceptable forms of documentation to verify eligibility for a fee waiver, which shall include income tax returns, if the parent or guardian was required to file a return, or current pay stubs. http://www.le.state.ut.us/~2005/bills/hbillenr/hb0183.pdf
Title: H.B. 183
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us
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| IA | Emergency Rule Adoption 09/2004 | Postsec. | Removes references to specific amounts for application fees in Chapters 1 and 2; creates a new rule with all application fees listed.
1.2 and 1.7: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6811/6811.pdf
2.27: http://www.legis.state.ia.us/Rules/Current/iac/681/6812/6812.pdf
Title: 681 IAB 1.2, 1.7, 2.27
Source: StateNet
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| WV | Signed into law 04/2004 | Postsec. | Gives each governing board the authority to impose, collect and expend the proceeds of a special equity fee under the following conditions: (a) The fee shall be used solely for the purpose of complying with the athletic provisions of 20 U. S. C. 1681, et seq., known as Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972;(b) The fee is exempt from limitations on fee increases set forth in this article for three years from the effective date of this section;(c) The fee may not be used by an institution to advance its classification of participation in its athletics governing body; and (d) The fee may not be imposed upon part-time students or students enrolled in an administratively linked community and technical college.http://129.71.164.29/Bill_Text_HTML/2004_SESSIONS/RS/Senate/S_BILLS/SB448%20enr.htm
Title: S.B. 448
Source: West Virginia Legislative Web Site
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| OR | Signed into law 08/2003 | P-12 | Allows a school district to seek payment of an amount of money owed by a student from parent or guardian of student; directs school district boards to adopt policies on collection of amounts that are $50 or more; directs such districts to withhold grade reports, diploma and records of the student owning a debt to the district until the debt is paid; allows the district board to adopt policies to waive all or a portion of said debt.
Title: H.B. 3044
Source: StateNet
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| HI | Vetoed 07/2003 | P-12 | Authorizes schools to assess and collect annual fees for textbooks; requires schools to compile annual list of textbooks to be used during that school year and to be made available upon request of student, parent or guardian of student. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/docs/getstatus.asp?qu=HB32&showstatus=on&showtext=on&press1=docs
Title: H.B. 32
Source: Hawaii Legislative Web site
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2003 | P-12 | The Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Authorization Act does not limit the ability of a governing body to request
donations of money, materials, equipment, or attire to defray costs if the request is made in such a way that it is clear that the request is not a requirement. The act does not prohibit a governing body from permitting students to supply materials for course projects. A governing body may require students to furnish minor personal or minor consumable items for participation in extracurricular activities. Also, In in regard to extracurricular activities, the option student shall be treated similarly to other students who transfer into the school from another public, private, denominational, or parochial school. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/Legal/SLIP_LB249.pdf
Title: L.B. 249
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us
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| SC | Signed into law 04/2003 | P-12 | Revises the manner in which matriculation and incidental fees may be charged by school districts including provisions to exempts students eligible for free lunches from these fees. http://www.scstatehouse.net/sess115_2003-2004/prever/3274_20030325.htm
Title: H.B. 3274
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.net
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| ND | Signed into law 03/2003 | P-12 | A school board may not charge a fee for textbooks or other items necessary for completion of a specific course required for grade advancement or graduation. Does allow student fees for the use of musical instruments. http://www.state.nd.us/lr/assembly/58-2003/bill_index/BI2169.html
Title: S.B. 2169
Source: StateNet
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| NE | Signed into law 04/2002 | P-12 | LB 1172 is the Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Authorization Act. The act provides that a school or an educational
service unit (ESU) may collect fees or require students to provide equipment or attire for the following purposes: extracurricular
activities; admission fees for spectators at extracurricular activities and transportation charges for participants; certain postsecondary
education costs; certain transportation costs; reproduction costs for students files or records; reimbursement for damaged or lost
property; before and after school or prekindergarten services; summer school or night school; and breakfast and lunch programs.
Students may be required to furnish certain personal or consumable items and clothing for specified courses and activities. A school
store may be operated. Schools may require students to furnish musical instruments for optional music courses that are not
extracurricular activities, if the use of an instrument is provided free of charge for students qualifying for free or reduced price lunches.
Current law allowing a fee for eye protective devices is rewritten to require schools to provide the devices free of charge.
Entities charging fees pursuant to the act are required to have a policy to waive fees for students who qualify for free or reduced-price
lunches. School boards must annually hold a public hearing on the student fee policy and adopt a policy to be published in the student
handbook. A student fee fund shall be established to deposit fees received from extracurricular activities, postsecondary education
costs and summer and night school costs. Fees deposited into the fund shall be used for the purposes for which they were collected. http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/Legal/SLIP_LB1172.pdf
Title: L.B. 1172
Source: http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/index.htm
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2001 | P-12 | Increases the fee a school of participation may charge a non-enrolled student for participation in an extracurricular activity; allows the school of participation in certain circumstances to charge a non-enrolled student the actual cost of post-season participation in an activity.
Title: H.B. 1129
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2000 | Postsec. | Raises cap on library automation and materials fee in regard to higher education.
Title: S.B. 1305
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2000 | P-12 | Establishes the presumption that public school students will pay the fees associated with courses they are repeating or remediation; provides alternatives to waiving the fees in cases of financial hardship; provides for a partial or full waiver in cases of extreme hardship.
Title: S.B. 146
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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