From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Thu Jan 20 16:12:49 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA33718 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:12:48 -0800 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA05454 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:12:47 -0800 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA07825 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:12:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA06086 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:15:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 16:15:25 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: residency@u.washington.edu Subject: Bills affecting us Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I notice two bills in the state senate that could change the way we do business a bit: 1. Senate Bill 6298: would add to the list of state employees eligible for the tuition waiver "permanent employees of school districts and educational service districts governed by chapter 41.56 RCW;" and "permanent certificated instructional staff goverened by chapter 41.59 RCW." 2. Senate Bill 6299: would add to the list of students eligible for reclassification as residents "a student classified as a nonimmigrant alien under 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)" who has lived in the state for a year or spent at least 75 percent of the junior and senior year in a state high school (or whose parents have done so), and who enrolls in a state inst. of higher ed within 6 months of leaving high school, etc. Apparently wouldn't even require that they possess WA documents. These are those "H" visa people who come as "temporary workers". You may recall that I had such a case that appealed all the way to the AG's office and got his son reclassified this past fall. Joe St.Hilaire Western .