BILL ANALYSIS Ó ----------------------------------------------------------------- |SENATE RULES COMMITTEE | SB 150| |Office of Senate Floor Analyses | | |1020 N Street, Suite 524 | | |(916) 651-1520 Fax: (916) | | |327-4478 | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 CONTINUED SB 150 Page 2 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 CONTINUED SB 150 Page 3 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 **** END **** CONTINUED