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Bill No: SB 150
Author: Lara (D), et al.
Amended: 9/6/13
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/1/13
AYES: Liu, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Jackson, Monning
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wyland, Huff
SENATE FLOOR : 30-1, 5/9/13
AYES: Beall, Block, Calderon, Cannella, Corbett, Correa, De
Le�n, DeSaulnier, Emmerson, Evans, Gaines, Galgiani, Hancock,
Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Jackson, Knight, Lara, Leno, Lieu,
Liu, Monning, Padilla, Roth, Steinberg, Wolk, Wright, Wyland,
Yee
NOES: Anderson
NO VOTE RECORDED: Berryhill, Fuller, Huff, Nielsen, Pavley,
Price, Walters, Vacancy, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : Pupils: concurrent enrollment in secondary school
and community college: nonresident tuition
exemption
SOURCE : Los Angeles Community College District
DIGEST : This bill authorizes a community college district to
exempt pupils attending community colleges as a special
part-time student from paying nonresident tuition.
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Assembly Amendments (1) add double-jointing language to SB 141
(Correa) to avoid chaptering out issues; (2) make technical and
clarifying changes; and (3) add coauthors.
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
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 authorizes a community college district to exempt
pupils attending community colleges as a special part-time
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student from paying nonresident tuition.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No Local:
No
SUPPORT : (Verified 9/10/13)
Los Angeles Community College District (source)
Association Students of University of California, Davis
California Catholic Conference
California Federation of Teachers
California Immigrant Policy Center
California Student Aid Commission
Community College Districts, Los Angeles, Rio Hondo, Peralta and
San Diego
John F. Kennedy Middle College High School
Los Angeles Unified School District
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Association of Social Workers
National Council of La Raza
San Francisco Unified School District
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 9/10/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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