Bill Text: CA AB947 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Community colleges: nonresident tuition: foreign

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, Statutes of 2009. [AB947 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB947-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 947	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to amend Section 76141 of the Education Code, relating to
nonresident tuition.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 947, as introduced, Brownley. Community colleges: nonresident
tuition: foreign citizens.
   Existing law requires a community college district to charge a
nonresident tuition fee to nonresident students, with certain
exceptions. Existing law requires the fee to be set according to a
formula that, with other modifications, divides the expense of
education in the district by the number of full-time equivalent
students, as defined, attending in the district in the preceding
fiscal year.
   Existing law also authorizes a community college district to
charge an additional fee in addition to the nonresident tuition fee
to nonresident students who are both citizens and residents of a
foreign county. The additional fee may be as high as the amount that
was expended by the district for capital outlay in the preceding
fiscal year divided by the total full-time equivalent students of the
district in the preceding year, so long as the fee does not exceed
50% of the nonresident tuition fee.
   This bill would instead authorize a community college district to
charge the additional fee to any nonresident student by deleting the
condition that the nonresident be a citizen and resident of a foreign
country.
   This bill would delete an obsolete reference.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 76141 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   76141.  (a) In addition to the nonresident tuition fee established
pursuant to Section 76140, a community college district may charge
to nonresident students  who are both citizens and residents
of a foreign country  an amount not to exceed the amount
that was expended by the district for capital outlay in the preceding
fiscal year divided by the total full-time equivalent students of
the district in the preceding fiscal year.
   (b) Any fee charged pursuant to this section shall not exceed 50
percent of the nonresident tuition fee established pursuant to
Section 76140.
   (c) (1) Any student who can demonstrate economic hardship, or who
is a victim of persecution or discrimination in the country in which
the student is a citizen and resident, is exempt from this fee.
   (2) For purposes of this section, the governing board of each
community college district that chooses to impose the fee authorized
by this section shall adopt a definition of economic hardship that
encompasses the financial circumstances of a person who is a
recipient of benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families program described in  Parts   Part
 A  and F  of Title IV of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. Secs. 601 et seq.), the Supplemental Income/State
Supplementary Program, or a general assistance program.
   (d) Revenue from any fee charged pursuant to this section shall be
expended only for purposes of capital outlay, maintenance, and
equipment.