FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 25
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR JOHNSON.
Pre-filed December 1, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 10, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Education.
Reported from the Committee February 5, 2001, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up February 13, 2001. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0376S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 172.360, RSMo 2000, relating to tuition at the University of Missouri, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 172.360, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 172.360, to read as follows:
172.360. All youths, resident of the state of Missouri, over the age of sixteen years, shall be admitted to all the privileges and advantages of the various classes of all the departments of the University of the State of Missouri [without payment of tuition]; provided, that each applicant for admission therein shall possess such scholastic attainments and mental and moral qualifications as shall be prescribed in rules adopted and established by the board of curators; and provided further, that [nothing herein enacted shall be construed to prevent the board of curators from collecting reasonable tuition fees in the professional departments, and the necessary fees for maintenance of the laboratories in all departments of the university, and establishing such other reasonable fees for library, hospital, incidental expenses or late registration as they may deem necessary] the board of curators may charge and collect reasonable tuition and other fees necessary for the maintenance and operation of all departments of the university, as they may deem necessary.