Bill Text: CA AB2486 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2486 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: exemption from payment of nonresident tuition for victims of certain crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-30 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2486 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2486-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2486	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 68122 of the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2486, as introduced, Gomez. Public postsecondary education:
exemption from payment of nonresident tuition for victims of certain
crimes.
   (1) Existing law exempts specified students from paying
nonresident tuition at the California State University and the
California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the governing
board of each community college district to charge resident students
a fee of $46 per unit per semester and to waive that fee for
specified students.
   Existing law provides that students who are victims of
trafficking, domestic violence, and other serious crimes who have
been granted a specified status under federal law are exempt from
paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the
California Community Colleges to the same extent as individuals who
are admitted to the United States as refugees under a specified
federal law. Existing law requests the University of California to
adopt policies that are consistent with those provisions.
   This bill would additionally provide that students who have
attended a California high school for 3 or more years, and graduated
from a California high school or attained the equivalent of high
school graduation, are eligible for the waiver of these fees.
   To the extent the bill would place additional requirements on
community college districts to exempt students from nonresident
tuition, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   (2) 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.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 68122 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   68122.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law,  students who
are victims   a student who is a victim  of
trafficking, domestic violence,  and   or 
other serious crimes who  have   has either
 been granted a status under Section 1101(a)(15)(T)(i) or (ii),
or Section 1101(a)(15)(U)(i) or (ii), of Title 8 of the United States
Code  , or is a person who has attended a California high school
for three or more years and graduated from a California high school
or attained the equivalent of high school graduation,  shall be
exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California State
University and the California Community Colleges to the same extent
as  individuals who are  an individual who is
 admitted to the United States as  refugees 
 a refugee  under Section 1157 of Title 8 of the United
States Code.
   (b) The University of California is requested to adopt policies
that are consistent with this section.
  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.