Bill Text: CA AB13 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Nonresident tuition exemption: veterans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 10-6)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 639, Statutes of 2014. [AB13 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB13-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 13	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 11, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JANUARY 31, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Chávez and Quirk-Silva
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Block)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Grove, Melendez, and Wilk)
   (Coauthors: Senators Correa, Hueso, Huff, and Wyland)

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to amend Section 68075.5 of the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 13, as amended, Chávez. Nonresident tuition exemption:
veterans.
   Under existing law, the segments of the public postsecondary
education system in the state include the University of California,
which is administered by the Regents of the University of California,
the California State University, which is administered by the
Trustees of the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges, which are administered by the Board of Governors
of the California Community Colleges.
   Existing law exempts a  community college  student who
was a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed in
this state on active duty for more than one year immediately prior to
being discharged from paying nonresident  tuition, as
specified.   tuition   for up to one year if he
or she files an affidavit with the community college stating that he
or she intends to establish residency in California as soon as
possible, if that student uses this exemption within 2 years of being
discharged. Existing law prohibits a former member of the Armed
Forces who received a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge from
receiving this exemption.  
   Existing law provides that the statutory provisions relating to
student residency requirements for public postsecondary education
apply to the University of California only to the extent that the
regents act, by resolution, to make these provisions applicable.
 
   This bill would make this one-year exemption from payment of
nonresident tuition applicable to a student enrolled, or intending to
enroll, at a campus of the California Community Colleges, or as an
undergraduate at a campus of the California State University, who was
a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed in this
state on active duty for more than one year immediately prior to
being discharged if he or she files an affidavit with the institution
at which he or she is enrolled, or intends to enroll, stating that
he or she intends to establish residency in California as soon as
possible, and uses this exemption within 2 years of being discharged.
 
   The bill would request the regents to enact regulations and
procedures that exempt from nonresident tuition students of that
university who meet the requirements applicable to students of the
California Community Colleges and the California State University for
the exemption in the bill.  
   This bill would eliminate the requirement that a student be
stationed in this state to receive that exemption, and would require
the student to be discharged or released from active duty within the
immediately prior year in order to receive the exemption. To the
extent the bill would require community college districts to exempt
more students from nonresident tuition, the bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.  
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 68075.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   68075.5.  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b) or (c), a
student  of the California Community Colleges or the California
State University  who was a member of the Armed Forces of the
United  States, who was discharged or released from active
duty within the immediately prior year,    
States stationed in this state on active duty for more than one year
immediately prior to being discharged  shall be exempt from
paying nonresident tuition for the length of time he or she lives in
this state after being discharged  or released from active
duty  up to the minimum time necessary to become a resident.

   (b) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (c), a 
community college  student  enrolled, or intending to
enroll, at a campus of the California Community Colleges, or as an
undergraduate at a campus of the California State University, 
who was a member of the Armed Forces of the United  States,
who was discharged or released from active duty within the
immediately prior year,   States   stationed in
this state on active duty for more than one year immediately prior
to being discharged  shall be exempt from paying nonresident
tuition for up to one year if he or she files an affidavit with the
 community college   institution at which he or
she is enrolled, or intends to enroll,  stating that he or she
intends to establish residency in California as soon as possible.
   (2) The one-year exemption provided in paragraph (1) shall be used
 while   by  the student  lives in
this state and  within two years of being 
discharged or released from active duty.   discharged.

   (c) A former member of the Armed Forces of the United States who
received a dishonorable or bad conduct discharge shall not be
eligible for an exemption pursuant to this section.
   SEC. 2.    The Legislature requests the Regents of
the University of California to enact, pursuant to Section 68134 of
the Education Code, a resolution th   at exempts from
nonresident tuition students of that university who meet the
requirements applicable to students of the California Community
Colleges and the California State University for the exemption under
Section 68075.5 of the Education Code.  
  SEC. 2.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.