Bill Text: CA AB1796 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: reenrollment.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-09-15 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 323, Statutes of 2022. [AB1796 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1796-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 1796
CHAPTER 323
An act to add Section 66208 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
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Approved by
Governor
September 15, 2022.
Filed with
Secretary of State
September 15, 2022.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1796, Choi.
Public postsecondary education: reenrollment.
Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. A provision of the Donahoe Higher Education Act expresses the intent of the Legislature that specified categories of applicants be prioritized in a specified order for the purpose of enrollment planning and admission priority practice at the undergraduate resident student level for the California State University and the University of California, including applicants who have been previously enrolled at the campus to which they are applying, as specified. The act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the regents, by appropriate resolution, make it
applicable.
This bill would require the California State University, and request the University of California, to require each campus in their respective systems to grant students the right to reenroll in their baccalaureate degree program after withdrawing or stopping out, if the student was in good academic standing with the university.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 66208 is added to the Education Code, to read:66208.
(a) (1) The Regents of the University of California are requested to, and the Trustees of the California State University shall, require each campus in their respective systems to grant students the right to reenroll in their baccalaureate degree program after withdrawing or stopping out, if the student was in good academic standing with the university.(2) The student may be required to pay any outstanding tuition and fees to be eligible for reenrollment under this section.
(3) Nothing shall preclude the California State University and the University of California from adopting policies requiring a student to submit transcripts and proof of good academic standing if the student enrolled at another college or university after leaving the respective campus.
(b) For purposes of calculating the student’s real graduation time under a graduation initiative, the California State University and the University of California may omit the semesters or years in which the student was not enrolled in any classes from the
student’s time to graduation.
(c) The California State University and the University of California are encouraged to begin outreach programs to students who left campus without completing their baccalaureate degree program, beginning with students closest to graduation.
