AB 2000, as introduced, Gomez. Public postsecondary education: exemption from nonresident tuition.
Existing law requires that a person, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as defined, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who 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 who, if he or she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed an affidavit as specified, is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University.
This bill would provide that a student’s exemption from nonresident tuition for an academic year pursuant to the above-referenced provision is to be determined solely on the basis of the criteria in that provision and not affected by a change in that student’s immigration or residency status in a subsequent academic year. The bill would express a legislative finding and declaration that its provisions are declaratory of existing law.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 68130.8 is added to the Education Code,
2to read:
A student’s exemption from nonresident tuition for
4an academic year pursuant to Section 68130.5 shall be determined
5solely on the basis of the criteria in Section 68130.5, and shall not
6be affected by a change in that student’s immigration or residency
7status in a subsequent academic year.
The Legislature finds and declares that Section 68130.8
9of the Education Code, as added by Section 1 of this act, is
10declaratory of existing law.
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