BILL NUMBER: AB 844	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2011
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Lara

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to add Section 66016.3 to the Education Code, relating to
student government.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 844, as amended, Lara. Student government: students qualifying
for exemption from nonresident tuition.
   The Donahoe Higher Education Act sets forth, among other things,
the missions and functions of California's public and independent
segments of higher education, and their respective institutions of
higher education.
   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 certain
requirements are met. Those requirements include that the person has
attended high school in California for 3 or more years, has graduated
from a California high school or has attained the equivalent
thereof, has registered at or attends an accredited institution of
higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or
quarter of the 2001-02 academic year, and, if the person is without
lawful immigration status, has filed a certain affidavit.
   This bill would add a provision to the Donahoe Higher Education
Act that would provide that any student, including a person without
lawful immigration status, or a person who is exempt from nonresident
tuition, as described above, may serve in any capacity in student
government at the California State University or the California
Community Colleges and receive any grant, scholarship, fee waiver, or
reimbursement for expenses that is connected with that service to
the full extent consistent with federal law.  The University of
California would be requested to comply with this provision. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 66016.3 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   66016.3.   (a)    Any student, including a
person without lawful immigration status, or a person who is exempt
from nonresident tuition pursuant to Section 68130.5, may serve in
any capacity in student government at the California State University
or the California Community Colleges and receive any grant,
scholarship, fee waiver, or reimbursement for expenses incurred
connected with that service to the full extent consistent with
federal law. 
   (b) The University of California is requested to comply with this
section.