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                                    THIRD READING


          Bill No:  SB 150
          Author:   Lara (D), et al.
          Amended:  4/25/13
          Vote:     21

           
          SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE  :  7-0, 5/1/13
          AYES:  Liu, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Jackson, Monning
          NO VOTE RECORDED:  Wyland, Huff


            SUBJECT  :    Pupils:  concurrent enrollment in secondary school  
                      and community college:  nonresident tuition  
                      exemption

           SOURCE  :     Los Angeles Community College District


           DIGEST  :    This bill exempts a pupil, other than a nonimmigrant  
          alien, as specified, attending a community college as a special  
          part-time student from paying nonresident tuition at the  
          community college if certain conditions are satisfied.

           ANALYSIS  :    Existing law permits a school district governing  
          board to determine which pupils would benefit from advanced  
          scholastic or vocational work and to authorize those pupils,  
          upon recommendation of the principal of the pupil's school of  
          attendance, and with parental consent, to attend a community  
          college during any session or term as special part-time or  
          full-time students and to undertake one or more courses of  
          instruction offered at the community college level. 

          Existing law authorizes the governing board of a community  
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          college district to admit K-12 students as special part-time or  
          full-time students in any session or term any student who is  
          eligible to attend community college, and generally requires  
          that these students be assigned a low enrollment priority in  
          order to ensure that these students do not displace regularly  
          admitted students. 

          Existing law requires the governing board of each community  
          college district to charge each student an enrollment fee,  
          currently $46 per unit per semester effective with the summer  
          term of the 2012 calendar year.  Existing law authorizes the  
          governing board of a community college district to exempt  
          special part-time students admitted from the fee requirement.

          Existing law authorizes a community college district to admit  
          nonresident students and requires that these students be charged  
          a nonresident tuition fee.  Until 
          June 30, 2013, the per unit nonresident fee is two times the  
          amount of the resident fee.  Beginning July 1, 2013, the per  
          unit nonresident fee will be three times the amount of the  
          resident fee.  Existing law also authorizes a community college  
          district to waive from all or parts of the fee, all nonresidents  
          who enroll for six or fewer units, but prohibits exemptions from  
          this requirement on an individual basis. Generally, nonresident  
          students are prohibited from being reported as full-time  
          equivalent students for state apportionment purposes.  

          This bill exempts a pupil, other than a nonimmigrant alien, as  
          specified, attending a community college as a special part-time  
          student from paying nonresident tuition at the community college  
          if certain conditions are satisfied.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  No   Local:  
           No

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  5/3/13)

          Los Angeles Community College District (source)
          Associated Students University of California, Davis
          California Catholic Conference
          California Federation of Teachers 
          California Immigrant Policy Center
          California Student Aid Commission 
          Faculty Association of California Community Colleges

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          Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities
          Los Angeles Unified School District
          Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
          National Association of Social Workers-California
          National Council of La Raza
          Peralta Community College District
          Rio Hondo Community College District
          San Diego Community College District
          San Francisco Unified School District
          University of California Student Association
          Youth Justice Coalition

           ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT  :    Supporters argue AB 540 (Firebaugh,  
          Chapter 814, Statutes of 2001) allows certain nonresident  
          students attending California's public colleges to pay resident  
          tuition if they have attended a California high school for at  
          least three years and have graduated.  Because concurrent  
          enrollment students have not yet graduated high school, they do  
          not meet the bill criteria and are subject to nonresident  
          tuition despite living and attending high school in California.   
          This can be as much as $254 per unit (more than $1000 for a  
          four-unit class).  Therefore, this small segment of dedicated  
          students is forced to pay cost-prohibitive nonresident tuition,  
          effectively denying them access to courses that will better  
          prepare them for college and the workforce.


          PQ:k  5/6/13   Senate Floor Analyses 

                           SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE

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