UTAH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEGISLATION
OF INTEREST TO HIGHER EDUCATION
ENACTED BY THE 2001 GENERAL SESSION

H.B. 35 Utah Technology Infrastructure Innovation Program Amendments - Brent H. Goodfellow
Modifies the Information Technology Act to expand the program to allow grants for cross-agency technology innovation projects.

H.B. 62 Operation and Maintenance of State Buildings - Gerry A. Adair
Increases the boundary between capital developments and capital improvements from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Increases the amount the Legislature must appropriate to capital improvements before funding the design or construction of any new capital development projects from .9% to 1.1% of replacement cost.

H.B. 64 Tuition Waivers for Wards of the State - Richard M. Siddoway
The Division of Child and Family Services can certify 17 to 26 year olds who have been in long term foster care for up to nine semesters of tuition waivers at USHE institutions. The division must reimburse the institutions. The Legislature may annually appropriate funds necessary to implement the program.

H.B. 71 Appropriation for Land Use Planning - Stephen H. Urquhart
Appropriates $100,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2001-02 to the Office of Planning and Budget for distribution to counties and other local governments for developing and implementing land use plans including $10,000 to Southern Utah University to conduct workshops on land planning.

H.B. 87 Appropriation for Utah Botanical Center -Marda Dillree
Appropriates $250,000 one time only from the General Fund to Utah State University for costs related to the Utah Botanical Center. H.B. 99 Reading Skills Development Center Amendments - Karen W. Morgan Changes the Reading Skills Development Center at the University of Utah into a clinic to assist educators and parents of students in assessing elementary school students who do not demonstrate satisfactory progress in reading.

H.B. 105 Licensure of Estheticians and Nail Technicians - Sheryl L. Allen
Modifies the Cosmetologist/Barber Licensing Act by adding estheticians and nail technicians to the scope of the act. The Board will no longer register estheticians and nail technicians schools under the Utah Post-secondary Proprietary School Act.

H.B. 111 Appropriation for Water Quality Protection - Brent D. Parker
Appropriates one time $40,000 to Utah State University Extension for a program to assist agricultural producers in identifying and implementing management practices that prevent contamination of water by animal wastes.

H.B. 126 Amendments to Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Meals - Afton B. Bradshaw
Exempts from sales and use tax an institution of higher education if the meals are not available to the general public or the meals are prepaid as part of a meal plan available only to a student of the institution of higher education.

H.B. 179 Voluntary Contributions Act - Chad E. Bennion
Prohibits public employees from authorizing payroll deductions to a labor organization's political fund.

H.B. 197 Waiver of Tuition by State College or University - Katherine M. Bryson
Increases the number of non resident tuition waivers at three institutions: Dixie College from 18 to 30; Utah Valley State College from 22 to 114; and Salt Lake Community College from 22 to 43.

H.B. 211 Tuition Waivers for Teachers - Wayne A. Harper
Makes a public school educator "exempt from tuition" when taking a course to "satisfy the professional development requirements" for teachers. The Board of Regents sets guidelines to determine when there is space available in the class.

H.B. 212 Museum Education Initiative - Wayne A. Harper
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Museum Services for enhancement of museums within the state.

H.B. 246 Substitute Teachers in Public Schools - Loraine T. Pace
Appropriates $75,000 to be used by the Substitute Teaching Institute at Utah State University on matters related to the available supply, quality, recruitment, training, and use of substitute teachers in the state's public schools.

H.B. 251 Appropriation for National Guard Education - Matt Throckmorton
Appropriates $50,000 to the National Guard to fund the tuition assistance program for study at post-secondary institutions of learning, including Applied Technology Centers.

H.B. 306 Nurse Training Grant Program - Chad E. Bennion
Appropriates $9,500 for 2001-02 only, to the Utah Department of Health for the University of Utah College of Nursing to provide for the training and certification of 20 "SANE" (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) nurses for use throughout the state.

S.B. 16 Teacher Quality Amendments - David H. Steele
Among other amendments, the Utah Career Teaching Scholarship program is renamed the Terrell H. Bell Teaching Incentive Loans program and the statute revised to clarify and support current administrative practices of the State Board of Regents.

S.B. 31 Area Health Education Center - Peter C. Knudson
Transfers funding from the State Board of Health to the University of Utah to establish five area health education centers (northern, crossroads, central, eastern and southwest) to emphasize rural health professions workforce education and training needs.

S.B. 57 Instruction in Mandarin Chinese in Public Schools - Howard A. Stephenson
Requires the State Board of Education to develop and implement a concurrent enrollment course on Mandarin Chinese to be taught over EDNET. USHE institutions and the State Board of Regents are involved in the implementation.

S.B. 58 Repeal of Nursing Facilities Assessment - Peter C. Knudson
Repeals the Nursing Facility Assessment Act. Appropriates funds from the Nursing Facilities Account to the University of Utah Health Science Center to fund Area Health Education Centers. (See S.B. 31.)

S.B. 60 Uniform Athlete Agents Act - Lyle W. Hillyard
Requires registration of athlete agents and creates requirements for agency contracts including warnings to student athletes.

S.B. 61 Enhancements to the State Systems of Public and Higher Education - Lyle W. Hillyard
Establishes an engineering and computer science initiative within the state system of higher education and a job enhancement program for secondary teachers in mathematics, physics, chemistry, physical science, and information technology within the public education system.

S.B. 120 Distance Education Doctorate Program - Beverly Ann Evans
Provides for a Distance Education Doctorate Program to be offered by the state system of higher education through Utah State University over the UEN-EDNET system.

S.B. 187 Prohibiting State Departments and Entities from Employing Contract Lobbyists - Beverly Ann Evans
Prohibits state agencies from spending any agency funds on lobbyists who are not employees of the agency.

S.B. 210 Higher Education Tuition Disclosure - Carlene M. Walker
Requires USHE institutions to hold a meeting with concerned students and citizens to consider increases in undergraduate tuition; publish a notice in the student newspaper including the proposed percent increase and the resulting dollar amount for a full time student; and provide certain basic information at the meeting.

S.B. 234 Sales and Use Tax - Botanical, Cultural, Recreational, and Zoological Organizations or Facilities Amendments - Lyle W. Hillyard
Provides for tax by a small city or town for the support of recreational and zoological facilities and botanical, cultural, and zoological organizations. Counties may facilitate collection of the tax.

S.J.R. 1 Joint Rules Resolution - Mini Appropriations Process - Leonard M. Blackham
Revises joint rules by modifying the process for addressing certain appropriation requests and by revising appropriation subcommittee responsibilities.