Bill Text: CA SB68 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 496, Statutes of 2017. [SB68 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB68-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Passed) 2017-10-05 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 496, Statutes of 2017. [SB68 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB68-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 68 |
| Introduced by Senator Lara |
January 05, 2017 |
An act to amend Section 68130.5 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 68, as introduced, Lara.
Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
(1) Existing law exempts a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if the student meets certain requirements, including high school attendance in California for 3 or more years or attainment of credits earned in California from a California high school equivalent to 3 or more years of full-time high school coursework and a total of 3 or more years of attendance at California elementary and secondary schools.
This bill would instead exempt a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, from nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges if the student has a total of 3 or more years of attendance at California elementary schools, California secondary schools, campuses
of the California Community Colleges, or a combination of those schools, as specified, and the student graduates from a California high school or attains the equivalent, attains an associate degree from a campus of the California Community Colleges, or fulfills minimum transfer requirements established for the University of California or the California State University for students transferring from campuses of the California Community Colleges.
The bill would request the Regents of the University of California to enact exemptions from requirements to pay nonresident tuition for its students that are equivalent to those applicable to students of the California Community Colleges and the California State University pursuant to this bill.
Because the bill would impose new duties on community college districts with respect to determining eligibility for exemptions from paying nonresident tuition, the bill would constitute 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 the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 68130.5 of the Education Code is amended to read:68130.5.
Notwithstanding any other law:(a) A student, other than a nonimmigrant alien within the meaning of paragraph (15) of subsection (a) of Section 1101 of Title 8 of the United States Code, who meets all of the following requirements shall be exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California State University and the California Community Colleges:
(1)Satisfaction of either of the following:
(A)High school attendance in California for three or more years.
(B)Attainment of credits earned in California from a California high school equivalent to three or more years of full-time high school coursework and a
(1) A total of three or more years of attendance in California elementary schools, California secondary schools, campuses of the California Community Colleges, or a combination of those schools. schools, of which attendance at a campus of the California Community Colleges shall be full time and shall not exceed two years of the time counted towards satisfaction of the requirements of this paragraph.
(2) Satisfaction of any of the following:
(2)
(A) Graduation from a California high school or attainment of the equivalent thereof.
(B) Attainment of an associate degree from a campus of the California Community Colleges.
(C) Fulfillment of the minimum transfer requirements established for the University of California or the California State University for students transferring from a campus of the California Community Colleges.
(3) Registration as an entering student at, or current enrollment at, an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year.
(4) In the case of a person without lawful immigration status, the filing of an affidavit with the institution of higher education stating that the student has filed an application to legalize his or her immigration status, or will file an application as soon as he or she is eligible to do so.
(b) A student
who is exempt from nonresident tuition under this section may be reported by a community college district as a full-time equivalent student for apportionment purposes.
(c) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges and the Trustees of the California State University shall prescribe rules and regulations for the implementation of this section.
(d) Student information obtained in the implementation of this section is confidential.
