BILL NUMBER: AB 194	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 16, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 31, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 24, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 8, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Beall
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bonilla, Brownley, Furutani, Gordon,
Jeffries, Lara, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Portantino, Skinner, and
Swanson)
    (   Coauthors:   Senators  
Hancock   and Vargas   ) 

                        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 revising requirements relating to student eligibility for
priority registration  for   at  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 
 a  foster youth or former foster youth.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "foster youth" means 
any   a  person who is currently in foster care,
and "former foster youth" means  any   a 
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.