00HOUSE BILL NO. 118                                                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to payment for remedial classes at the University of Alaska."                                          
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 14.03 is amended by adding a new section to read:                                                 
04  Sec. 14.03.127.  Required payment for cost of remedial classes.  The                                                
05 governing body of a district shall pay to the University of Alaska the cost of remedial                                 
06 classes for a person who enrolls at the University of Alaska if the person graduated                                    
07 from a public high school located in that district and enrolled in the University of                                    
08 Alaska within two years after receiving a high school diploma.  For purposes of this                                    
09 section, the cost of remedial classes shall be determined as provided under                                             
10 AS 14.40.170(a).  In this section,                                                                                      
11   (1)  "district" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990;                                                               
12   (2)  "remedial class" means a class that is preparatory to college level                                             
13 but is not applicable, as a matter of University of Alaska policy, to meet the                                          
14 requirements for a degree or professional certification.                                                                

01    * Sec. 2.  AS 14.40.170(a) is amended to read:                                                                     
02  (a)  The Board of Regents shall                                                                                       
03   (1)  appoint the president of the university by a majority vote of the                                               
04 whole board, and the president may attend meetings of the board;                                                        
05   (2)  fix the compensation of the president of the university, all heads of                                           
06 departments, professors, teachers, instructors, and other officers;                                                     
07   (3)  confer such appropriate degrees as it may determine and prescribe;                                              
08   (4)  have the care, control, and management of                                                                       
09   (A)  all the real and personal property of the university; and                                                      
10   (B)  land conveyed to the Board of Regents by the commissioner                                                      
11 of natural resources in the settlement of the claim of the University of Alaska                                         
12 to land granted to the state in accordance with the Act of March 4, 1915 (38                                            
13 Stat. 1214), as amended and in accordance with the Act of January 21, 1929                                              
14 (45 Stat. 1091), as amended;                                                                                            
15   (5)  keep a correct and easily understood record of the minutes of every                                             
16 meeting and all acts done by it in pursuance of its duties;                                                             
17   (6)  under procedures to be established by the commissioner of                                                       
18 administration, and in accordance with existing procedures for other state agencies,                                    
19 have the care, control, and management of all money of the university and keep a                                        
20 complete record of all money received and disbursed;                                                                    
21   (7)  adopt reasonable rules for the prudent trust management and the                                                 
22 long-term financial benefit to the university of the land of the university;                                            
23   (8)  provide public notice of sales, leases, exchanges, and transfers of                                             
24 the land of the university or of interests in land of the university ;                                                
25   (9)  determine the cost of remedial classes provided to a student                                                   
26 described in AS 14.03.127 and provide the cost information to the school district                                       
27 from which the student graduated; in this paragraph, "school district" has the                                          
28 same meaning as "district" given in AS 14.17.990  [REPEALED].