BILL NUMBER: AB 194	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 8, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Brownley,   Gordon,   Jeffries,   Ma,
  Portantino,   and Swanson   ) 

                        JANUARY 27, 2011

   An act to add Section 66025.9 to the Education Code, relating to
postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 194, as amended, Beall. Public postsecondary education:
priority enrollment: foster youth.
   Existing law requires the California State University and each
community college district, and requests the University of
California, with respect to each campus in their respective
jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant
priority for registration for enrollment to any member or former
member of the Armed Forces of the United States, as defined, for any
academic term attended at one of these institutions within 2 years of
leaving active duty.
   This bill would require the California State University and each
community college district, and requests the University of
California, with respect to each campus in their respective
jurisdictions that administers a priority enrollment system, to grant
priority for registration for enrollment to foster youth or former
foster youth, as defined.
   By establishing revised requirements relating to student
eligibility for priority registration for community college
districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
   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 66025.9 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66025.9.  (a) The California State University and each community
college district shall, and the University of California is requested
to, with respect to each campus in their respective jurisdictions
that administers a priority enrollment system, grant priority in that
system for registration for enrollment to any foster youth or former
foster youth.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "foster youth" means any person
who is currently in foster care, and "former foster youth" means any
person who is an emancipated foster youth  and  who is up to
24 years of age.
  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.