BILL NUMBER: AB 1711	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members McCarty and Medina
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Baker,   Olsen,   Low,   Daly, 
 and Cooper   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Cannella
  ) 

                        JANUARY 26, 2016

   An act to add Section 68052.1 to the Education Code, relating to
the University of California.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1711, as amended, McCarty. University of California:
nonresident student enrollment.
   Existing law expresses the intent of the Legislature that the
University of California establish nonresident student tuition
policies that are consistent with their resident student fee
policies. The provisions are applicable to the University of
California only if the Regents of the University of California act,
by resolution, to make them applicable.
   This bill would require the University of California, as a
condition of receipt of funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act,
to limit the percentage of  undergraduate 
nonresident  undergraduate  students enrolled at the
University of California systemwide to 15.5% of total undergraduate
student enrollment,  and, until July 1, 2021, 
and  would prohibit any campus of the University of California
where  undergraduate  nonresident  undergraduate
 student enrollment exceeds 15.5% from enrolling new 
undergraduate  nonresident  students.  
undergraduate students in excess of the number of new nonresident
undergraduate students enrolled in the 2015-16 academic year. 
The  bill   bill, beginning in the 
  2017-18 academic year,  would require a certain
percentage of revenue generated from  undergraduate 
 new  nonresident  undergraduate student 
enrollment to be directed to fund increased enrollment of 
undergraduate  resident  undergraduate  students,
and would require the University of California to annually publish a
report with specified information relating to  undergraduate
 nonresident  undergraduate  tuition and revenue.
 The bill would require the University of California to establish
a policy to require each campus to admit only nonresident
undergraduate students who exceed the academic qualifications of
resident undergraduate students, as specified, and would require the
University of California to annually report specified information to
the Legislature to ensure compliance with the policy. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 68052.1 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   68052.1.  As a condition of receipt of funds appropriated in the
annual Budget Act, and notwithstanding Section 68134, the University
of California shall comply with all of the following:
   (a) The percentage of  undergraduate  nonresident
 undergraduate  students enrolled at the University of
California systemwide shall not exceed 15.5 percent of total
undergraduate student enrollment.
   (b)  Until July 1, 2021, any   Any  
 campus of the University of California at which 
undergraduate  nonresident  undergraduate 
enrollment exceeds 15.5 percent of total student enrollment shall not
enroll new  undergraduate  nonresident 
students.   undergraduate students in excess of the
number of new nonresident undergraduate students enrolled in the
2015-16 academic year. 
   (c)  An   Beginning in the 2017-18 academic
year, an  amount not less than 50 percent of the revenues in
excess of the marginal cost of instruction generated from 
undergraduate   new  nonresident  undergraduate
 enrollment shall be directed to fund increased enrollment of
 undergraduate  resident  undergraduate 
students at all campuses of the university with undergraduate
students.
   (d) The University of California shall annually publish a report
that includes, but is not necessarily limited to, all of the
following information:
   (1) The  undergraduate  nonresident 
undergraduate  tuition and fee level established at each campus.

   (2) The amount of revenues generated by  undergraduate
 nonresident  undergraduate  enrollment at each
campus.
   (3) The method by which these revenues were distributed among the
various campuses of the university.
   (4) For each campus, the purposes for which these revenues were
expended, including, but not limited to, the number of California
resident undergraduate students admitted pursuant to subdivision (c).

   (e) The University of California shall not be required to comply
with the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b) in any year in
which the annual Budget Act provides less funding to support the
University of California than was provided in the prior budget year.
 
   (f) (1) By July 1, 2017, the University of California shall
establish a policy regarding admission of nonresident undergraduate
students to require that each campus of the University of California
admit to that campus only nonresident undergraduate students who
exceed the academic qualifications of resident undergraduate students
admitted to that campus and, in that regard, would stand in the
upper one-half of the resident undergraduate students admitted at
that specific campus.  
   (2) The University of California shall report to the Legislature
annually regarding actions taken to ensure compliance with this
policy, including, but not limited to, the academic indicators used
in the admission process, the median score of admitted resident
undergraduate students for each indicator at each campus, and the
number of admitted nonresident undergraduate students who scored
below the resident median on each indicator at each campus.