Bill Text: AZ SB1065 | 2022 | Fifty-fifth Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Private postsecondary education board; fees

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-06 - Chapter 269 [SB1065 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2022-SB1065-Chaptered.html

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Senate Engrossed

 

private postsecondary education board; fees

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

CHAPTER 269

 

SENATE BILL 1065

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 32-3027, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the state board for private postsecondary education.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 32-3027, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE32-3027. Fees

A. The board shall establish and collect the following nonrefundable fees:

1. A filing fee for an original private vocational program license or license to grant degrees, not more than eight hundred dollars. any combination of an initial and original private vocational program license or license to grant degrees as follows:

(a) For up to and including five program reviews, $2,000.

(b) For a sixth and subsequent program review, $100 each.

(c) Notwithstanding subdivisions (a) and (b) of this paragraph, the total filing fee may not to exceed $5,000.

2. An annual renewal fee for an applicant holding one or more private vocational program and degree granting licenses, based on the aggregate annual gross tuition revenues from all programs licensed in this state,  but not exceeding the following amounts for an applicant with the following annual gross tuition revenue:

(a) Less than fifty thousand dollars $50,000 annual gross tuition revenue, six hundred dollars $750.

(b) Fifty thousand to two hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars $50,000 to $249,999 annual gross tuition revenue, seven hundred fifty dollars $975.

(c) Two hundred fifty thousand to four hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars $250,000 to $499,999 annual gross tuition revenue, one thousand dollars $1,375.

(d) Five hundred thousand to nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars $500,000 to $999,999 annual gross tuition revenue, one thousand three hundred dollars $1,800.

(e) One million to two million four hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars $1,000,000 to $2,499,999 annual gross tuition revenue, one thousand six hundred fifty dollars $2,300.

(f) Two million five hundred thousand to six million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine dollars $2,500,000 to $6,999,999 annual gross tuition revenue, two thousand dollars $2,750.

(g) Seven million dollars or more $7,000,000 to $9,999,999 annual gross tuition revenue, two thousand three hundred dollars $3,100.

(h) $10,000,000 to $13,999,999 annual gross tuition revenue, $4,200.

(i) $14,000,000 to $19,999,999 annual gross tuition revenue, $5,000.

(j) $20,000,000 or more annual gross tuition revenue, $6,000.

3. A supplemental application fee for licensure of a new or an additional vocational program or degree program, five hundred dollars $500.

4. A supplemental application fee for licensure of an additional location or a change of location, five hundred dollars $500.

5. A supplemental application fee for a change in ownership of an educational institution offering private vocational programs or granting degrees, five hundred dollars $2,000.

6. A fee for an on-site verification, inspection or investigation that equals the actual cost incurred or five hundred dollars $500, whichever is less.

7. A late renewal fee, one hundred dollars $100 per day.

B. For a student record request the board may charge a ten dollar $10 processing fee and a twenty-five cent per page copying charge. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Requirements for enactment; two-thirds vote

Pursuant to article IX, section 22, Constitution of Arizona, this act is effective only on the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members of each house of the legislature and is effective immediately on the signature of the governor or, if the governor vetoes this act, on the subsequent affirmative vote of at least three-fourths of the members of each house of the legislature.

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR JUNE 6, 2022.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 6, 2022.