BILL NUMBER: AB 2000	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to add Section 68130.8 to the Education Code, relating to
public postsecondary education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 68130.8 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   68130.8.  A student's exemption from nonresident tuition for an
academic year pursuant to Section 68130.5 shall be determined solely
on the basis of the criteria in Section 68130.5, and shall not be
affected by a change in that student's immigration or residency
status in a subsequent academic year.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that Section 68130.8 of
the Education Code, as added by Section 1 of this act, is
declaratory of existing law.