Amended in Senate June 22, 2016

Amended in Assembly May 27, 2016

Amended in Assembly April 18, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1711

Introduced by Assembly Members McCarty and Medina

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Baker, Cooper, Daly, Beth Gaines, Gipson, Low, and Olsen)

(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 begin delete limit the percentage of nonresident undergraduate students enrolled at the University of California systemwide to 10% of total undergraduate student enrollment, to increase resident undergraduate student enrollment by 5,000 and decrease nonresident undergraduate student enrollment by 1,700 each year for 6 academic years beginning with the 2017-18 academic year, and would prohibit any campus of the University of California where nonresident undergraduate student enrollment exceeds 15.5% from enrolling new nonresident undergraduate students in excess of the number of new nonresident undergraduate students enrolled in the 2015-16 academic year. The bill would require the University of California to annually publish a report with specified information relating to nonresident undergraduate tuition and revenue. The bill would require the University of California to end delete 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 begin delete annually end delete report specified information to the Legislature begin insert annually regarding actions taken end insert 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.  

begin delete (a) end delete begin delete   end delete As a condition of receipt of funds appropriated
in the annual Budget Act, and notwithstanding Section 68134, the
University of California shall comply with begin delete all end delete begin insert both end insert of the following:

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(1) The percentage of nonresident undergraduate students
enrolled at the University of California systemwide shall not exceed
10 percent of total undergraduate student enrollment by the
2022-23 academic year.

(2) In each of the 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21,
2021-22, and 2022-23 academic years, the University of California
shall increase resident undergraduate student enrollment by 5,000
and decrease nonresident undergraduate student enrollment by
1,700.

(3) Any campus of the University of California at which
nonresident undergraduate enrollment exceeds 15.5 percent of
total student enrollment shall not enroll new nonresident
undergraduate students in excess of the number of new nonresident
undergraduate students enrolled in the 2015-16 academic year.

(4) The University of California shall annually publish a report
that includes, but is not necessarily limited to, all of the following
information:

(A) The nonresident undergraduate tuition and fee level
established at each campus.

(B) The amount of revenues generated by nonresident
undergraduate enrollment at each campus.

(C) The method by which these revenues were distributed among
the various campuses of the university.

(D) For each campus, the purposes for which these revenues
were expended.

(5) (A) 

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begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert 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.

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(B)

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begin insert (b) end insert  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.

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(b) The University of California shall not be required to comply
with the requirements of paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subdivision
(a) 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.

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(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that the enrollment changes
specified in this section be funded by a combination of state
funding, savings from operating efficiencies implemented by the
University of California, and increases in nonresident
undergraduate student tuition and fees.

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