RCW 28B.117.020
Definitions. (Effective until July 1,
2012.)
The definitions in this section apply throughout this
chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
(1) "Cost of attendance" means the cost associated with
attending a particular institution of higher education as
determined by the higher education coordinating board, including
but not limited to tuition, fees, room, board, books, personal
expenses, and transportation, plus the cost of reasonable
additional expenses incurred by an eligible student and approved
by a financial aid administrator at the student's school of
attendance.
(2) "Emancipated from foster care" means a person who was a
dependent of the state in accordance with chapter 13.34 RCW and
who was receiving foster care in the state of Washington when he
or she reached his or her eighteenth birthday.
(3) "Financial need" means the difference between a
student's cost of attendance and the student's total family
contribution as determined by the method prescribed by the United
States department of education.
(4) "Independent college or university" means a private,
nonprofit institution of higher education, open to residents of
the state, providing programs of education beyond the high school
level leading to at least the baccalaureate degree, and
accredited by the Northwest association of schools and colleges,
and other institutions as may be developed that are approved by
the higher education coordinating board as meeting equivalent
standards as those institutions accredited under this section.
(5) "Institution of higher education" means:
(a) Any public university, college, community college, or
technical college operated by the state of Washington or any
political subdivision thereof; or
(b) Any independent college or university in Washington; or
(c) Any other university, college, school, or institute in
the state of Washington offering instruction beyond the high
school level that is a member institution of an accrediting
association recognized by rule of the higher education
coordinating board for the purposes of this section: PROVIDED,
That any institution, branch, extension, or facility operating
within the state of Washington that is affiliated with an
institution operating in another state must be a separately
accredited member institution of any such accrediting
association, or a branch of a member institution of an
accrediting association recognized by rule of the board for
purposes of this section, that is eligible for federal student
financial aid assistance and has operated as a nonprofit college
or university delivering on-site classroom instruction for a
minimum of twenty consecutive years within the state of
Washington, and has an annual enrollment of at least seven
hundred full-time equivalent students.
(6) "Program" means the passport to college promise pilot
program created in this chapter.
[2007 c 314 § 2.]
RCW 28B.117.020
Definitions. (Effective July 1, 2012,
until June 30, 2013.)
The definitions in this section apply
throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires
otherwise.
(1) "Cost of attendance" means the cost associated with
attending a particular institution of higher education as
determined by the office, including but not limited to tuition,
fees, room, board, books, personal expenses, and transportation,
plus the cost of reasonable additional expenses incurred by an
eligible student and approved by a financial aid administrator at
the student's school of attendance.
(2) "Emancipated from foster care" means a person who was a
dependent of the state in accordance with chapter 13.34 RCW and
who was receiving foster care in the state of Washington when he
or she reached his or her eighteenth birthday.
(3) "Financial need" means the difference between a
student's cost of attendance and the student's total family
contribution as determined by the method prescribed by the United
States department of education.
(4) "Independent college or university" means a private,
nonprofit institution of higher education, open to residents of
the state, providing programs of education beyond the high school
level leading to at least the baccalaureate degree, and
accredited by the Northwest association of schools and colleges,
and other institutions as may be developed that are approved by
the *board as meeting equivalent standards as those institutions
accredited under this section.
(5) "Institution of higher education" means:
(a) Any public university, college, community college, or
technical college operated by the state of Washington or any
political subdivision thereof; or
(b) Any independent college or university in Washington; or
(c) Any other university, college, school, or institute in
the state of Washington offering instruction beyond the high
school level that is a member institution of an accrediting
association recognized by rule of the *higher education
coordinating board for the purposes of this section: PROVIDED,
That any institution, branch, extension, or facility operating
within the state of Washington that is affiliated with an
institution operating in another state must be a separately
accredited member institution of any such accrediting
association, or a branch of a member institution of an
accrediting association recognized by rule of the *board for
purposes of this section, that is eligible for federal student
financial aid assistance and has operated as a nonprofit college
or university delivering on-site classroom instruction for a
minimum of twenty consecutive years within the state of
Washington, and has an annual enrollment of at least seven
hundred full-time equivalent students.
(6) "Office" means the office of student financial
assistance.
(7) "Program" means the passport to college promise pilot
program created in this chapter.
[2011 1st sp.s. c 11 § 220; 2007 c 314 § 2.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The higher education coordinating board ("board") was abolished by 2011 1st sp.s. c 11 § 301, effective July 1, 2012.
Effective date -- 2011 1st sp.s. c 11 §§ 101-103, 106-202, 204-244, and 301: See note following RCW 28B.76.020.
Expiration date -- 2011 1st sp.s. c 11 §§ 220-225: "Sections 220 through 225 of this act expire June 30, 2013." [2011 1st sp.s. c 11 § 402.]
Intent -- 2011 1st sp.s. c 11: See note following RCW 28B.76.020.