SB 487 Summary

• Requires the Alabama Commission on Higher Education to establish and promulgate a schedule of programmatic review fees for non-Alabama postsecondary institutions offering instructional programs in the state.

• Allows the commission to revise the fee schedule from time to time upon reasonable notice at its discretion.

• Mandates that all programmatic review fees collected from non-Alabama postsecondary institutions be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the commission.

• Maintains the commission's existing authority to regulate and approve instructional programs offered by out-of-state institutions and to establish criteria for such approvals.