BILL NUMBER: AB 3063	CHAPTERED  08/25/04

	CHAPTER  309
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 25, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 24, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 12, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 1, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 28, 2004
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2004

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Higher Education (Liu (Chair), Pacheco
(Vice Chair), Jackson, Matthews, and Negrete McLeod)

                        MARCH 4, 2004

   An act to amend Section 66801 of the Education Code, relating to
community college attendance, and declaring the urgency thereof, to
take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 3063, Committee on Higher Education.  Community college
interstate attendance agreements.
   Existing law authorizes the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges to enter into an interstate attendance agreement
with a statewide public agency of another state, as specified.
   This bill would authorize the board of governors to authorize the
governing board of a community college district to enter into an
interstate attendance agreement directly with the governing body of a
public institution of postsecondary education in another state that
provides the first 2 years of college instruction if the state in
which the public institution is situated borders California, is a
party to the Western Interstate Compact for Higher Education and is
not represented by a statewide public agency that is responsible for
public institutions of postsecondary education that provide the first
2 years of college instruction.  The bill would authorize these
agreements to be effective on or after July 1, 2003.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 66801 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   66801.  (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges is authorized to enter into an interstate attendance
agreement with any statewide public agency of another state that is
responsible for public institutions of postsecondary education
providing the first two years of college instruction and that is an
agency of a state that is a party to the Western Interstate Compact
for Higher Education, for the exchange of residents, on a one-for-one
basis, for the purposes of instruction.
   (b) (1) As an alternative to the procedure established in
subdivision (a), the board of governors may authorize the governing
board of a community college district to enter into an interstate
attendance agreement directly with the governing body  of a public
institution of postsecondary education providing the first two years
of college instruction if the state in which the public institution
is situated borders California, is a party to the Western Interstate
Compact for Higher Education and the state is not represented by a
statewide public agency that is responsible for public institutions
of postsecondary education providing the first two years of college
instruction.
   (2) Each agreement entered into under this subdivision shall
satisfy the requirements of subdivision (a), and shall become
effective once fully executed and approved by the governing board of
each participating district.  There shall be no need to file a
resolution as described in Section 66802 or for any further action by
the board of governors.  An interstate attendance agreement entered
into under this subdivision may be effective on or after July 1,
2003.
   (c) The agreement shall contain terms as the board of governors
may adopt and that are consistent with the authority and
responsibility of California community college districts and the
community colleges they maintain.  In no event shall an agreement
permit or require the entry of California residents into institutions
in another state on terms substantially different from those
governing the admission of residents of the other state to California
community colleges.  These agreements shall contain the provision
that no additional state funds shall be required to carry out the
provisions of this chapter.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to allow the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges to enter into interstate attendance agreements for
the 2004-05 school year, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.