85-1419. Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Cash Fund; created; use; investment.

There is hereby created the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Cash Fund. The fund shall contain money received from application fees from out-of-state institutions of higher and postsecondary education seeking authorization to offer courses and programs in the State of Nebraska and from private colleges seeking provisional accreditation and money received by the commission for services rendered incident to the administration of its statutory or contractual functions. The fund shall be expended for the administrative costs of reviewing applications, publishing and duplicating reports, coordinating studies, conducting conferences, and other related activities as may be authorized by the Legislature or by contract, except that transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature. All such money received by the commission shall be remitted to the State Treasurer for credit to the Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education Cash Fund. A report on the receipts and expenditures from the fund shall be included as a part of the operating budget request submitted to the Legislature and the Governor. Any money in the fund available for investment shall be invested by the state investment officer pursuant to the Nebraska Capital Expansion Act and the Nebraska State Funds Investment Act.

Source:Laws 1991, LB 663, § 22; Laws 1994, LB 683, § 23; Laws 1994, LB 1066, § 138; Laws 2009, First Spec. Sess., LB3, § 94.

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